Exhibition
Cheryl Donegan: Scenes and Commercials
01/20/16-04/10/16
Conversations · Exhibition-Related
Cheryl Donegan: Fold, Screen, Skin: Contemporary Space in Contemporary Art
Cover Image:
Cheryl Donegan, Untitled (grey folds), 2014. Printed cloth, 36 × 50 in (91.4 × 127 cm). Courtesy the artist
Exploring slippages between tactile and virtual worlds, “Fold, Screen, Skin: Contemporary Space in Contemporary Art” brings together a panel of artists and curators who examine the compression of three-dimensional space on two-dimensional surfaces, particularly the screen and the canvas. Positing the notion of “skin-deep space” as a particularly resonant metaphor for our compressed age, in which so many of our dialogues and transactions transpire on screens, this panel will consider the pressures placed on subjects as they move between physical and virtual platforms, with an eye to the economies of attention embedded within these spaces. Panelists will include artists and curators Howie Chen, Matt Connors, Jess Fuller, Josh Kline, and Andrew Ross.
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.
