Alison Chernick

Alison Chernick is a New York based writer/director and filmmaker.

In documentaries profiling Jeff Koons and Matthew Barney, Chernick has succeeded in capturing the thoughts and processes of two of the century's most prolific visual artists. Creating a bridge between contemporary art and film, Chernick conceived an interstitial series profiling artists for Showtime, 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 now available on amazon. 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. The DVD is available through Netflix. Her documentaries have also 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 and a Promax award for HBO. 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 does commercial directing and is a frequent contributor to Louis Vuitton/LVMH's online magazine Nowness.com. Chernick studied film and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University. She is currently developing a narrative/fiction film that will shoot in 2012.