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Darlene Charneco, Mutual Medicine Flower . 2020, Nails, resin, mixed media on wood. 20″ diameter. Photo courtesy the artist
Off-Site Road Show | Darlene Charneco: Symbiosome Schoolhouse
August 28, 2021, 3 pm - 5 pm
OPENING RECEPTION
Old Point Schoolhouse at Oysterponds Historical Society
1555 Village Lane, Orient, NY 11957
Free and Open to the Public
REGISTER
Now in its tenth year, the Parrish Road Show is the Museum’s annual creative off-site cultural engagement program. Every year, East End artists are invited to create new work for temporary projects. In an effort to deeply connect art and creativity to everyday life, the exhibitions take place at public sites across the region—cultural and historical organizations, public parks and highways, and community centers—and the artists offer public talks and art-making workshops for children and adults.
For the 2021 Parrish Road Show, East-End based artist Darlene Charneco (American, b. 1971) will create a site-specific exhibition at Oysterponds Historical Society in Orient, on the North Fork of Long Island, NY. The artist is currently in residence at the William Steeple Davis Trust in Orient.
The multi-dimensional installation, Symbiosome Schoolhouse, extends the artist’s life-long practice of examining human settlements, forms of interaction, and evolution through a biological lens. On view in the Old Point Schoolhouse and on the Historical Society grounds, Symbiosome Schoolhouse features new work in Charneco’s mixed-media mapping series Touchmaps, which explores and navigates the layered spaces that humans inhabit. Visitors are encouraged to experience the large-scale, patterned works to orient, sense, and express a world that shifts and changes through ever-expanding communication networks. To build Touchmaps, Charneco has developed her own tactile language—such as hammering nails into wooden panels in a meditative process she describes as “renewing determination and hammering out positive hopes for humanity.” Several Touchmaps, wall-sculpture weaves, and a grouping of mixed-media works on paper will be on view in the Schoolhouse.
Charneco will also present a machinima video loop (animations created in real-time computer graphics engines), of ongoing experimental projects in immersive virtual worlds. She participates in these collaboratively constructed, shared, and continuously evolving realms to interact with new media learning groups and non-profit community members from around the world. A large, free-standing sculpture made from smaller wood and concrete structures that represent buildings and dwellings, will be placed on the lawn in front of the Schoolhouse, visible from Village Lane.
Parrish Road Show 2021 | Darlene Charneco: Symbiosome Schoolhouse is organized by Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects.
Symbiosome Schoolhouse is on view from August 28–October 24, 2021.
Public hours are Friday: 2 pm—5 pm | Saturday: 11 am—5 pm | Sunday: 2 pm—5 pm
This indoor event requires all attendees to show proof of their vaccination status or recent negative COVID test (within 72 hours). Medical-grade face masks must be worn at all times. Masks will be provided to anyone who needs one.
To help us expedite the check-in process, we encourage all guests to send their proof in advance by emailing it to healthfirst@parrishart.org. Please put the event title in your subject line.
ABOUT DARLENE CHARNECO
Darlene Charneco (b. 1971, New York City) attended Stony Brook University for MFA Studies and Long Island University Southampton for her BFA. Exhibiting throughout the U.S. and globally, she participated in PINTA Fair London and the Korean International Art Fair. Charneco’s work is part of Guild Hall Museum’s permanent collection, and was featured in the Princeton Architectural Press book The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katherine Harmon, and How Architecture Learned to Speculate by Mihall & Serbest through the University of Stuttgart. Charneco was awarded the 2017 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She is represented by Praxis International Gallery in New York City and Longview Gallery in Washington, DC.
ABOUT OYSTERPONDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Oysterponds Historical Society (OHS) brings people together to share and celebrate the unique history and culture of Orient and East Marion. OHS was started in 1944 to preserve the historical significance of Orient and East Marion communities that was still largely populated by direct descendants of the European settlers three centuries before. OHS founding members were concerned about the gradual disappearance of Native American artifacts, documents, family records, tools, art, and other surviving evidence of the maritime, agricultural, cultural, and religious life of the early residents of this area.
EXHIBITION SUPPORT
Parrish Road Show 2021 | Darlene Charneco: Symbiosome Schoolhouse, is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder; and Jane Wesman, and Donald Savelson. Public funding is provided by Suffolk County
Off-Site Road Show | Darlene Charneco: Symbiosome Schoolhouse
August 28, 2021, 3 pm - 5 pm
OPENING RECEPTION
Old Point Schoolhouse at Oysterponds Historical Society
1555 Village Lane, Orient, NY 11957
Free and Open to the Public
REGISTER
Now in its tenth year, the Parrish Road Show is the Museum’s annual creative off-site cultural engagement program. Every year, East End artists are invited to create new work for temporary projects. In an effort to deeply connect art and creativity to everyday life, the exhibitions take place at public sites across the region—cultural and historical organizations, public parks and highways, and community centers—and the artists offer public talks and art-making workshops for children and adults.
For the 2021 Parrish Road Show, East-End based artist Darlene Charneco (American, b. 1971) will create a site-specific exhibition at Oysterponds Historical Society in Orient, on the North Fork of Long Island, NY. The artist is currently in residence at the William Steeple Davis Trust in Orient.
The multi-dimensional installation, Symbiosome Schoolhouse, extends the artist’s life-long practice of examining human settlements, forms of interaction, and evolution through a biological lens. On view in the Old Point Schoolhouse and on the Historical Society grounds, Symbiosome Schoolhouse features new work in Charneco’s mixed-media mapping series Touchmaps, which explores and navigates the layered spaces that humans inhabit. Visitors are encouraged to experience the large-scale, patterned works to orient, sense, and express a world that shifts and changes through ever-expanding communication networks. To build Touchmaps, Charneco has developed her own tactile language—such as hammering nails into wooden panels in a meditative process she describes as “renewing determination and hammering out positive hopes for humanity.” Several Touchmaps, wall-sculpture weaves, and a grouping of mixed-media works on paper will be on view in the Schoolhouse.
Charneco will also present a machinima video loop (animations created in real-time computer graphics engines), of ongoing experimental projects in immersive virtual worlds. She participates in these collaboratively constructed, shared, and continuously evolving realms to interact with new media learning groups and non-profit community members from around the world. A large, free-standing sculpture made from smaller wood and concrete structures that represent buildings and dwellings, will be placed on the lawn in front of the Schoolhouse, visible from Village Lane.
Parrish Road Show 2021 | Darlene Charneco: Symbiosome Schoolhouse is organized by Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects.
Symbiosome Schoolhouse is on view from August 28–October 24, 2021.
Public hours are Friday: 2 pm—5 pm | Saturday: 11 am—5 pm | Sunday: 2 pm—5 pm
This indoor event requires all attendees to show proof of their vaccination status or recent negative COVID test (within 72 hours). Medical-grade face masks must be worn at all times. Masks will be provided to anyone who needs one.
To help us expedite the check-in process, we encourage all guests to send their proof in advance by emailing it to healthfirst@parrishart.org. Please put the event title in your subject line.
ABOUT DARLENE CHARNECO
Darlene Charneco (b. 1971, New York City) attended Stony Brook University for MFA Studies and Long Island University Southampton for her BFA. Exhibiting throughout the U.S. and globally, she participated in PINTA Fair London and the Korean International Art Fair. Charneco’s work is part of Guild Hall Museum’s permanent collection, and was featured in the Princeton Architectural Press book The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katherine Harmon, and How Architecture Learned to Speculate by Mihall & Serbest through the University of Stuttgart. Charneco was awarded the 2017 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She is represented by Praxis International Gallery in New York City and Longview Gallery in Washington, DC.
ABOUT OYSTERPONDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Oysterponds Historical Society (OHS) brings people together to share and celebrate the unique history and culture of Orient and East Marion. OHS was started in 1944 to preserve the historical significance of Orient and East Marion communities that was still largely populated by direct descendants of the European settlers three centuries before. OHS founding members were concerned about the gradual disappearance of Native American artifacts, documents, family records, tools, art, and other surviving evidence of the maritime, agricultural, cultural, and religious life of the early residents of this area.
EXHIBITION SUPPORT
Parrish Road Show 2021 | Darlene Charneco: Symbiosome Schoolhouse, is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder; and Jane Wesman, and Donald Savelson. Public funding is provided by Suffolk County
