In award winning documentaries profiling major contemporary artists, Chernick has succeeded in capturing the thoughts and processes of this century's most prolific visual artists. Creating a bridge between contemporary art and film, Chernick initially conceived a series profiling artists for television, and launched an artist expose series for Rainbow-Media with her first feature film entitled The Jeff Koons Show. The Jeff Koons Show went on to have international theatrical distribution and is available on iTunes.
She completed her second feature length documentary on contemporary artist Matthew Barney entitled Matthew Barney: No Restraint which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and was acquired for theatrical distribution by IFC and The Weinstein Company. Amongst other commissions, the Tate modern commissioned her to do a film on Roy Lichtenstein to accompany his retrospective in 2012. Her art documentaries have been screened at various museums around the world, including the five Guggenheims, The Smithsonian, SFMOMA, and The Walker.
She is the recipient of The Patricia Highsmith-Plangman award, a Promax award for HBO and a Best Screenwriter award for a short film. Chernick's past writing credits include the Sundance Channel, Showtime, Sci-Fi, MTV, VH1, The History Channel, and National Geographic. She started Voyeur Films, a film production company in 2005. She was signed for global representation in commercial directing in 2011. She does short films on topics of art, fashion, music, gastronomy and medicine/healthcare.
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