Cheryl Donegan’s Scenes and Commercials (1998) was originally presented in the exhibition “Cheryl Donegan: Scenes and Commercials,” at the New Museum from January  20–April 10, 2016.

In her performance and video work spanning the early ’90s to the early ’00s, Donegan often used her body as an apparatus for mark-making, parodying the conventions of commercials and music videos while considering the politics of self-representation. More recently, Donegan continues to derive abstraction from debased consumer objects, shopping spaces, advertising, crafting and clothing.

“Cheryl Donegan: Scenes and Commercials” was curated by Johanna Burton, former Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement, with Sara O’Keeffe, former Assistant Curator, and Alicia Ritson, former Research Fellow.