Mixedmedia artist +

Memorypalace-maker.

About my mixed-media art:

Darlene Charneco’s mapping series looks at people, networks, homes, and communities as part of a larger organism's growth stage. Clusters of houses sharing or sequestering resources and shorelines are pondered as sustainability experiments within imaginary petri dishes. Ms. Charneco’s works take wonder in ‘where we are’ while exploring mnemonic and technological tools that allow us to grow our networks and broaden our sense of community. She imagines humanity’s overlapping experiences and shared interests creating new interactive maps of possibilities- hopeful that vital local and global challenges can be more collaboratively solved.

Investigating social networks and the gradual reorganization of information on the web into shareable and intuitively navigable 3D spaces... She is inspired by the blurring boundaries between dream and waking activities, the implications of our rapidly increasing interconnectivity and the evolution of an accessible collective memory.

A resident of Long Island,NY, she has shown and lectured at numerous museums and galleries, including Praxis International Art in Chelsea, the Katonah, Islip, Hunterdon and Hecksher Museums. Her works are featured in The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, by Katharine A Harmon, published by Princeton Architectural Press in Sept 2009.

Catalog essay for 'Self Assembling MemoryPalace' viewable here: issuu.com/christinaray/docs/charneco_self-assemblingmp_ca...

In addition to her mapping works, the artist maintains an ongoing studio practice of hammered nail prayers and weaves...works from this ongoing series are viewable in the set of that name.

SELECT EXHIBITIONS:

Darlene Charneco: Symbiosome Schoolhouse

a collaborative project with the Parrish Art Museum and the Oysterponds Historical Society

Parrish Road Show

at the Old Point Schoolhouse

1555 Village Lane, Orient

Aug 28- Oct 24, 2021

FutureNurture: Weaves and Touchmaps

Praxis Gallery Chelsea NY

501 W 20th Street New York, NY 10011

Sept 13, 2018- Nov 3, 2018

ReFRESH

Long View Gallery

1234 Ninth St NW

Washington DC 20001

Summer 2018 +

Aug 18- Sept 18, 2016

VISIONMAP: The Story Thus Far

a solo exhibition/survey of works

at the Tremaine Gallery of Hotchkiss

March 28-April 27, 2014

11 Interlaken Road

Lakeville, Connecticut

Charneco at Hotchkiss

SENSORIA

April 6th- May 5th 2013

reception Sat. April 6th 5-7pm

@ art sites (architecture+art)

651 W.Main Street, Riverhead, NY

selected works on view at

Praxis International Art- Chelsea

541 W 25th street

New York, NY 10001

www.praxis-art.com/index.php?lang=en&view=21&ida=42

'Suburban/Urban' at the Islip Art Museum

April 11th- May 27th, 2012

Opening Reception Sunday April 22nd 1 -4pm

50 Irish Lane, East Islip, NY 11730

'Islands of Memory'

an exhibition of new mixed media works by Darlene Charneco

Aug 27- Oct.24th, 2011(extended !)

Cocktail Reception1 Sat Aug 27th 5-7 pm

Reception2 Thurs Sept 1, 6-8 pm

artists+artists discussion Sat Sept 17, 4:30pm

@Solar Contemporary Latin American Art

44 Davids Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937 USA

631.907.8422 or info@artsolar.com

Esperanza Leon, Curator/Director

artsolar.com/wp/events/

PINTA art fair London with Praxis International Art

June 6-9, 2011 www.pintaart.com/

www.praxis-art.com/index.php?lang=en&view=11&ide=39

Frame of Reference: Dioramas in the 21st Century

at The Ann Street Gallery

104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY

June 4th- July 9th, 2011

Artist Reception: Saturday, June 4 from 6:00-9:00 pm

www.annstreetgallery.org/2011/06/featured/frame-of-refere...

Wonderstuck at Praxis International Art (Chelsea)

Feb 24th- April 23rd, 2011

reception Feb 24 6-8pm

541 W 25th street

New York, NY 10001

select 'Readings series' works on view in

Chromesthesia at the Tribeca Project Space

Feb 16th- June 2011

143 Reade St., Tribeca, NYC

solo show:

Self-Assembling MP at Christina Ray Gallery SoHo

Jan 13th - Feb 6th 2011 !

30 Grand Street, NYC

View catalog: issuu.com/christinaray/docs/charneco_self-assemblingmp_ca...

works available at/through:

PRAXIS International Art, Miami, Fl, Chelsea,NYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina

www.praxis-art.com

LONGVIEW GALLERY DC- www.longviewgallerydc.com

ArtSites- Riverhead, NY

www.artsitesgallery.com/

SOLAR- East Hampton, NY

artsolar.com/

previous shows included:

FOUNTAIN Art Fair- Miami 2010

w/Christina Ray Gallery Dec2-5

SUPERCLUSTER @ Praxis International Miami

Nov 27- Jan 15th

special viewings during ArtBasel Miami Dec 1-5

www.praxis-art.com

'Around The Way'- exhibition curated by El Museo Del Barrio at Macy's Herald Square (8th floor event space) NYC.

Monday, Sept 20, 2010 through Friday, Oct 15, 2010

reception Thursday Sept 23rd 6-8pm

Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Trinidad Fombella and organized by Macy's with El Museo del Barrio

Selected works by: Elia Alba, Firelei Baez ,Priscila De Carvalho,Darlene Charneco, Alexis Duque, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Dulce Pinzon and Jason Villegas.

Featuring the work of young Latino artists, this exhibition explores a variety of themes including the connections between friends and families and their neighborhoods. Photography, painting, installation, sculpture, and video illustrate the dreams, memories, celebrations, and everyday acts of people in their native or adopted communities. Despite life in the digital age, these relationships remain central to the creation of strong social and cultural bonds. El Museo del Barrio is pleased to honor the ideas that bind neighbors, friends, and families.

www.elmuseo.org/en/event/around-way

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