For the tenth season of its offsite exhibition series Parrish Road Show, the Parrish Art Museum invited East End-based Latinx artist Darlene Charneco to create a site-specific exhibition at Oysterponds Historical Society 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 both the Old Point Schoolhouse and on the Historical Society grounds, the exhibition features newly created works, largely made while Charneco was in residency at the William Steeple Davis Trust in Orient. Symbiosome Schoolhouse presents works on paper, sculpture, and video, as well as the artist’s signature wall reliefs which she calls Touchmaps.
Organized by Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects, in collaboration with the Oysterponds Historical Society, Symbiosome Schoolhouse is on view Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, from August 28 until October 24. A free, public reception takes place in the Old Point Schoolhouse on Saturday, August 28, from 3 to 5 PM.