Darlene Charneco
Born in 1971 in NYC of parents from Mayaguez and Moca, Puerto Rico, Darlene Charneco’s works explore and navigate the hybrid spaces we live in, often presenting them as part of a growing organism. The artist creates what she refers to as “tactile pages”: three-dimensional, mixed media works that serve, “to orient, sense, and express within a world that is rapidly being reconfigured by the evolution of communication networks”.
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.
Alex Vignoli
Alex Vignoli’s Livros (Books) and the related series Too Many Stories transmit the fundamental way in which humanity has told stories since antiquity. Vignoli aims to tell “visual stories” in limited-edition prints that feature books and periodicals as their subject matter. Exploring the sculptural qualities of these objects, the artist creates three-dimensional compositions which he captures photographically. He rolls and folds the books to, “make more graphic images from these pages...[allowing] their stories to unfold while reading (looking).” The ongoing Livros series is limited purely to the physical manipulation of the books, while in Too Many Stories, begun in 2016, Vignoli adds digital manipulation to further the interpretation of how we see and hear stories; how we acquire knowledge, and how, “knowledge moved the world to the digital era”.