Artist's Talk Cheryl Donegan

Join us for an artist’s talk by New York-based painter and video artist Cheryl Donegan, invited to campus by the Ohio State University Graduate Painting Club.

Donegan integrates the time-based, gestural forms of performance and video with painting, drawing, and installation. Direct, irreverent, and infused with an ironic eroticism, her work puts a subversive spin on issues relating to sex, gender, art-making, and art history. In her earlier works, Donegan used her body as a metaphor with performative actions before the camera often resulting in or related to process paintings and drawings. More recently, paintings often lead the video work, as Donegan derives abstraction from debased images of consumer objects and spaces. As critic Nick Stillman writes in Artforum, “Donegan’s recent work remains acidic, but it has turned abstract.”

Donegan received her BFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Hunter College in New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at the 1993 Venice Biennale; the 1995 Whitney Biennial, the New York Film and Video Festival, and the Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. Donegan has had one-person shows at Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London; Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels; Oliver Kamm, 5BE gallery, New York. She has also had solo exhibitions in Nice, Paris, Berlin, and Milan. She lives in New York with her two sons and her husband, writer Kenneth Goldsmith.

Cosponsored by the Graduate Painting Club in Ohio State’s Department of Art.