Exhibition
Cheryl Donegan: Scenes and Commercials
01/20/16-04/10/16
Performances · Exhibition-Related
Cheryl Donegan: “EXTRA LAYER” Fashion Show, produced in cooperation with Print All Over Me
Cover Image:
Cheryl Donegan, “EXTRA LAYER,” 2015. Production image. Courtesy the artist
As the culmination of Cheryl Donegan’s four-month residency and exhibition at the New Museum, presented through the Department of Education and Public Engagement’s R&D Season: LEGACY, the artist will premiere “EXTRA LAYER,” a collection of outerwear commissioned by the Museum that advances her foray into fashion. Produced in cooperation with Print All Over Me and styled with accessories sourced from eBay and her own personal collection, the project extends Donegan’s exploration of the consumption and production of forms taken from mass culture, middlebrow design, and art history. The collection will nod to the deconstructed forms of visionary fashion designer Martin Margiela, particularly his humble tuxedo T-shirt.
This event is organized on the occasion of “Cheryl Donegan: Scenes + Commercials,” an exhibition and a residency organized by the Department of Education and Public Engagement as part of its R&D Season: LEGACY, in which Donegan continues her exploration of the production and consumption of images in mass culture, middlebrow design, and art history. The exhibition presents works that span Donegan’s career, from the early ’90s to the present, tracing conceptual threads that run across her practice, including her interest in the mediated image, compressed space, and the mark’s indexical relation to the body. Throughout the run of the exhibition, the Resource Center will feature a major new installation by Donegan, titled “Concept Store,” that displays garments, drawings, prints, and textiles she has produced alongside items she has sourced from websites such as eBay. In this installation and the other works in “Scenes + Commercials,” the artist engages in a process of “refashioning the readymade” by alluding to longer histories of repurposing in both art and culture.
Sponsors
“Cheryl Donegan: Scenes + Commercials” is made possible by support provided by the Toby Devan Lewis Emerging Artists Exhibitions Fund.
Artist commissions at the New Museum are generously supported by the Neeson / Edlis Artist Commissions Fund. Artist residencies are made possible, in part, by Laurie Wolfert.
Further exhibition support is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
Special thanks to Electronic Arts Intermix.
Generous lead support for education programs is provided by the Keith Haring School, Teen, and Family Programs Fund. The New Museum’s Experimental Study Program is made possible by Westfield World Trade Center.
