Cheryl Donegan
b. 1962
Cheryl Donegan defines a generation of artists, many of whom are women, who burst onto the scene in the 1990s with a new conceptual art practice. Donegan's work integrates the time-based, gestural forms of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing, and installation. Direct, irreverent, and infused with an ironic eroticism, Donegan's works put a subversive spin on issues relating to sex, gender, art-making, and art history. In a series of provocative tapes that define a new mode of video performance, Donegan creates exercises in masquerade, role-playing, and exposure. Using her own body as metaphor, she executes performative actions before the camera; these conceptual performances often result in or relate to process paintings and drawings. Donegan's works draw from a panoply of pop cultural and art historical references, from Jean-Luc Godard to the Beach Boys, from punk music to Barnett Newman's "zips" and Pollock's splatter paintings. In her paintings, performances, and installations, Donegan often refers to the processes of art-making in the context of art history, including high Modernism and Abstract Expressionism. Cheryl Donegan was born in 1962 in New Have…
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