Driven to the beat of Madonna's song Lucky Star, modified from its original pop rhythm to a lethargically slow pace, Lullaby explores the hopes and dreams of a teenage Jennifer Reeder as she develops into adulthood. Using actual diary entries from her teenage journal, intermixed with excerpts from the writings of Judy Blume - staple reading for most young girls coming of age in the early 1980s to the present - the artist places her youthful desires and inspirations in text, as well as visual, form on the screen. Like millions of teenagers lulled by the power-driven fantasies served up by Madonna's music videos, Reeder examines the enticement of dreaming about one's possible future.

Splicing text between images of herself in actual home movies taken during her teen years and current close-up face shots, Reeder allows us to personally experience her transition from fantasizing teen to earthbound adult artist. We experience dance classes and cheerleader try-outs, mixed with memoirs of petty jealousies, absurd eating habits and intense teenage crushes on such 80s stars as Anthony Michael Hall - all juxtaposed against a more surreal present reality.

Jennifer Reeder received a BFA from the Ohio State University in Columbus and went on to receive a MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been included in the exhibitions: 5th Graz Biennial on Media and Architecture, Austria; Solo Exhibition, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, IL; SoundImageVideoObject, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL; Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL; Cyber Body, My Space, ArtToday Lab, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Mix Festival, New York, NY; New York Video Festival, New York, NY; WWVF, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Holland; Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY; TBA, Chicago, IL; Face to Face, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium; Videoformes France; Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL; From Steel to Flesh, University Gallery, University of Indiana, Gary, Indiana; Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY; ATA, San Francisco, CA; WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Body as Byte, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland; ArtMiami, Miami, FL; Viennale, Vienna, Austria; Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada; Chemical Suzy, Hong Kong; Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba; Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco, CA; LA Freewave, Los Angeles, CA; Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA; Fall Exhibition, INOVA, Milwaukee, WI; Video/Culture, National Gallery, Washington, DC; Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Solo Screening, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; Society of the Spectacle, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Circles of Confusion, Berlin, Germany; Performance Anxiety, NYUFF, New York, NY; Pop Unlimited, Oberhausen, Germany; TV/Voyeur, Pratt Institute, New York, NY; Pretend TV, La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico; Photography 3000, Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago, IL; Prophecies, The Swiss Institute, New York, NY; Shifting Positions, Cultural Center, Chicago. IL; In the Middle of Nowhere, Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Manly, Art in General, New York, NY; See Me, Hear Me, The Hague Museum (Armory), The Hague, The Netherlands; Society of the Spectacle, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Solo Screening, The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; World Wide Video Festival, Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 48th International Venice Biennale (Video Lounge), Venice, Italy; Switchblade Sisters, The Lux Centre, London, England; The Secret History, Chicago Project Room, Chicago, IL; All Girls All Live, Bodybuilder Gallery, Chicago, IL; Dusk, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, New York, NY; Generation Zat, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY; Wroclaw Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland; Dallas Film Festival, Dallas, TX; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Cockfight, MWMWM Gallery, New York, NY; Pretend TV, Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; Second Nature, UCLA Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Mostra Video, Canary Islands, Spain; LA Freewaves at MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Scope 3, Artists Space, New York, NY; Video Room, New York, NY; Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL; Third Text, MassArt, Boston, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain; MA Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Documentarfilm Videotheque, Kassel, Germany; Champ Libre Festival, Montreal, Canada; Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA; Transmedia, Berlin, Germany; Alienchicks, PleasureDome, Toronto, Canada; Mostravideo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain; Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Home Girls, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Videolounge, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY; Little Tiny, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Out Fest, The Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA; and Lesbian Genders, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

Her work is scheduled to appear in the upcoming exhibitions: Video Jam, The New York Center for Media Arts, New York, NY; I Feel a Song Coming Along, Kunstverien, Dusseldorf, Germany; and Common Culture, Spruill Art Center, Atlanta, GA.