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reception for the artists- Fri Dec 7
Fountain Fair/ Wynwood District Miami
"Fountain is the independent art fair pioneered by cutting-edge galleries in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Fountain Miami 2007 features 14 galleries from Brooklyn, San Francisco and Miami and takes place December 06–09 in a 10,000 sq.ft. warehouse in Wynwood."
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Showing a new grouping of artworks at the Aqua Hotel art fair during ArtBasel in Miami w/Morgan Lehman Gallery. (see Petri Playgrounds set)
This is my annual work/play vacation. Art overload, mohitos and cuban food. A really welcome break from the NY cold.
coincides with my birthday so I consider it an annual 4day celebration:)
Next year I'm bringing a more portable camera so I can take a gazillion pics. here I was just borrowing Amber's a lot but not nearly enough. saw such great moments.. and textures and juxtapositions I wish I could share...

after all night travel, we got in and finally had eggsammich+coffee&OJ mmmm then hurry to change and get over to the Aqua Hotel Preview (bringing additional 4 new works with us fresh from the studio).
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I've been back and just trying to process everything from the 5days of artfairs in Miami. SO much input.so much art.
Very First thrill was just getting up in the air and having a windowseat so I could play with aerial photos again.

and shifting senses

and again

and possibly my favorite:

Back in the beginning of December we went to Miami Beach for the ArtBasel contemporary art fair madness. Had a great time as usual...give me art everywhere, friends, artists, mohitos and warm weather and I'm in pretty good spirits yesireee. ( read more )

Hey Everyone-

I’ll have artworks on display with
Morgan Lehman Gallery
at the Flow Invitational Art Fair during Art Basel Miami 2006.
If you’re coming down to Miami for the art fairs
(or live nearby) please be sure to drop by!

flow is taking place in 18 rooms on the first floor of the Spy Lounge
at the Catalina Hotel & Beach Club, located near 18th and Collins.
The hotel is just 2 blocks from the Convention Center, home to Art Basel Miami,
and is surrounded by 5 other satellite fairs; Diva, Pool, Aqua, Bridge and Ink.
Entry is Free and there is a Flowtini Cocktail hour every night (woohoo) (except sun-waah) from 6-7.

Come See! We'll be doing the art overload thing...so much art- so little time!.
Plus trying to rack up free mohitos on my birthday dec 9- (hint-buy me one!;)!)

More info and schedule of events: flowfair.com

ps then remember...we're installing the Gameland show in Chelsea right after-
that's the big one with alllll my new work- please come (dec14 6-8pm)
info on my website. www.darlenecharneco.com
xoxo
D

And so it was Monday...and it was over. Jane ran to get her last taste of the beach, I lingered and showered and packed at the hotel...had myself a nice breakfast sandwich at Raffi's. Off to the airport we go but we are bumped off our flight (no room for our luggage?!) and have to wait on standby for the next one. I am totallyTotallyTOTALLY exhausted. Finally we're on and I alternate between sleep and coughing for the duration of the flight.
Brent picks us up in NY, handsome thoughtful sweetheart that I remember, waiting with warm car and our winter coats and mittens.
My Hugo.
We go for green food at sonoma grill (after sustaining myself on empanadas and mohitos for about a week some spinach was definitely needed). Then glorious sleeeeep in my own bed.
Now back home I am doing my best to recuperate (lost my voice and have this chest cold) and to process all I took in. Getting it all on here (LJ) was a big part of the plan...creating a place to store the links and memories...and now I feel a bit lighter... The processing of the Boston Conference still awaits me (still feels so BIG and unapproachable, *sigh*)...and tomorrow I turn a year older....how fast it goes...

Last day of the fairs...I'm hacking and coughing in the morning feeling pretty miserable. Decide not to push it and I let Jane go to the beach solo while I relax and get ready slowly to get to Frisbee on time (thought this was my 'working' day at the room). Got there and Seth was drawing on the bed...Bill and I talked a bit but Sara seemed to want us all outoutOUT. (I guess so she could focus on trying to sell? she seemed nervous..but wasn't I suPPOSED to be there?) Ok, so finally we left... Seth and I taking off to check out the Containers on the beach. We run into Bethany Bristow and I'm excited to hear all about her recent travels around Asia- she went ALL OVER, including my number 2 travel destination wishlist: Angkor Wat. *le sigh*. Images of the mysterious roottreetemples floating in my mind...

On to the containers...of course I can't keep up at all with Seth's pace so I fall behind again. Jane is there but done as well...so they go off separately to see the main ArtBasel fair. I'm blown away by 2 containers: one is Richard Dupont's eerily distorted human figures, seems your eyes are playing tricks on you because they are so perfectly done and so...wrong. Then my absolute favorite (no surprise) is Herwig Weiser's interactive piece utilizing ferrofluids and magnetic shavings which are landscapes you can manipulate with frequency modulations.. Hello science museum/ cymatics /DJ-fun.... oh how I loved. The drawings were pure gorgeousness as well, colorful technical mechanical diagrams mmmhmmmm!

Afterwards I couldn't get a hold of either Jane or Seth and I just didn't have the energy to go to Basel. The clouds were turning colors above me and I slipped into a mood that had me prefer to go walking, feeling oddly charged and ghostlike. I ended up at the cybercafe, took a latte and a session, topped up my cell phone. As I'm leaving, jane is right there, having just sit down at one of the computers. Odd.:) I leave her to go back to the hotel and get my stuff to take back my artworks. Meet back at Frisbee to do that and it feels sort of sad and depressing, anti-climatic.
Sara and Bill talking of going to a closing party for ArtBasel, Seth wanting to sleep, i don't know what I want... Walking back ot my hotel my mood starts to crash...I'm sensitive to a certain something in the air...and my eyes find the sad parts of the environment easily...the crack addict bent over the sewer grate. Back at the room I'm near tears and frustrated with myself for feeling this way...something not right, but I'm not sure what it is. Jane is supportive and thinks it is all my financial worries crashing in after expecting a few sales....perhaps. We decide to go to Lincoln road for pizza (lots of toppings at Pizza Rustica and a good people watching relaxing spot). Time to let go, we toast to laughter and forgetting (milan kundera) and just plain enjoying life. Promise ourselves to go dancing and get it all out. We get airbrushed tattoos on our arms and walk on to find the 'Fuck Art/Let's Dance' party that seemed it would match our mood. Drank too much and watched Jane and Seth dancing. sweet. blur. sweet. managed to keep myself in check (ok...barely) but I was toast. the 'emergency mohito mini bottle' I had kept in my bag made it's way into one of my drinks,increasing the potency by 10. kindof dumb but kindof needed. Jane went back to the hotel and I talked with sweetSeth out on a stoop for a while, taking in the lights of the warm miami I would have to leave tomorrow...

Ok so of course I slept in a weeee bit more after that night. ;) Jane and I took our late morning beach moments. Odd how we ended up at the exact beach spot I was at over..10 years ago...multicolored lifeguard hut and outdoor showers bringing me back...back to a strange other time...first awkward adventure travelling with a much older man...my first collector and the delusion of a trip with 'no strings attached'. Feeling trapped, confused and complicated in a beautiful new place I just wanted to explore, trying to balance my situation and assert myself, failing miserably. Shake off the reverie, I'm here now with Jane, on my own terms, as an artist, older, wiser. I go back to the hotel and shower and change.

Went back to Frisbee for a while. Sara happier to see us all...Seth and I and Bill sitting on the bed are now her 'children' and she is the Mom Gallery and she is laughing and we are happy to see her more relaxed and in a good mood. A woman walks in with a dramatic air about her, sexy in low slung jeans with a belt lightly around her bare waist, short hair in a turban, tall and confident. She's talking with Sara in a theatre voice and telling us all about a cabaret performance she does that she'd like us to see. Sara is inspired and begs her to sing for us right then and there and after a few protests she does...saying oh but you MUST see it with the lights and the costumes and...;)greatfun...she gives a link to her website (ivalyou.com and makes us all promise to come see her perform in NY.
I go through some other rooms looking at the art, meet David Shaw, and we are trying to remember where we might know eachother from. Can't.
Then we are finally off to check out the Aqua Art Fair. ( read more )

Friday Jane and I sleep in again, and then spend the morning talking...going through some pretty serious issues, looking at love and relationships, past lives and present, finances and dreams and deep-rooted fears. She's going through some rough stuff...:(. tears then meditation. After a while we gathered ourselves up to go drink in a bit of nurturing sunshine at the beach to fuel our day.

Slowww start but eventually we make it to -scope. Michael Sellinger is at the door thankfully and let's us in. We find Seth asleep (or practically) on a big white chair in the lobby and tease him a bit before moving on. Started up on the 5th floor and made our way down. I only made it to the 3rd floor in the time it took Jane to see the whole thing. *sigh* Enjoying talking with Kasia Kay (sweeet installation of little birds in her room made me smile). Also talking with Patrick Heide, liking many artworks there...subtle, text based, obsessive. some made by mechanical typewriter.., others reminding me of my readings series but in drawing. Awesome video works by Erin O'Hara(?) in 'Curator's Office Gallery'- morphing fractalized animations of food that seemed so....much like life evolving...fascinating to watch . But my absolute favorite yet again (I fell in love with these at -scopeNY) were works by Ruud van Empel. You'd really have to see them in person to get the eerieness of them...digital collage that is so crisp and so...odd surreal too perfect...the EYES...I can only think of the next stage of digital avatars and the strange future we are entering. The new series I loved but can't find any pics online.( read more )

Slept in at the hotelroom. Not feeling so good bit of a cold I was hoping I could tame by a little extra rest and vitC. Wrote a bit in my bookjournal while Jane was still sleeping. When she woke we had tea and talked awhile lounging around. Then she went down to the pool and I showered and went off to Frisbee thinking I'd have to get the room ready since we didn't last night. But I forgot it didn't open until 1:00 and it was only noon and no one was there.(duh)*sigh* So instead I went for a walk around the area...enjoying the sun,looking at palm trees and buildings and cracks in pavement, glad to be out of cold NY, and getting a feel for where some things were located. Found a cybercafe and stopped in for a quickie session but just as I was finishing up a post my session ended and I lost it. bah. anyway glad to have a latte for the sippin.
Walked back to Frisbee and met up with Seth Adelsberger. (yay, new art friend.) He had arrived late the night before. I was surprised to see the room was already put together and looked pretty great. Downside was I had no wall space at all...only an area for the small works on tables. Many of the pieces I brought are really meant for the walls and I wanted to show that, not present them all as table sculpture. But it seemed obvious that to include some of my works on the walls the whole room lay-out would need restructuring so...after feeling out that it would be too stressful for everyone I just ended up swallowing it/letting it go. *sigh* Trying to remind myself that showing my works here was an extra last minute thing...I really came to See the fairs. But you know, still would've been nice to have the works displayed properly. *artistgripegrumble*

ANyhoo, Jane came around and we decided to share a cab with Seth and Bill to check out the NADA and Pulse fairs on 'the other side'(North Miami). ( read all about it )

It's considered the art world's equivalent of 'SpringBreak', a cornucopia of contemporary art fairs and art related events and parties all taking place within 4 December days in Miami Beach, Florida. It's pretty insane and I am overloaded and exhausted and want a week to personally recuperate, no surprise. Think I'll just stay in pjs all day today (hack-cough-ugh) and try to recap....

My main partner in crime for the week was my awesome artist friend, Janey. (Jane Martin - check out her 'CloserFarAway series of video stills..gorgeous.) We planned our trip together (I had accumulated free airfare woohoo)and lucked out with a reasonable hotelroom within easy walking distance to most events. Took our mornings slow and easy in order to rest up for the crazy packed afternoons and nights. Pretty good plan I think.

Arrived Wednesday, NOv 30, afternoon/evening...disheveled from travelling and expecting to spend a while helping with installation, we bring over my small artworks to Sara Nightingale's room at the Frisbee Fair...but Sara is in the shower and tells us to hurry and change so we can to go with her to the opening at ArtBasel. Yikes! no slow starts here! I kinda wanted to hang around and meet the other artists and gallerists in Frisbee as they installed....some boxes and piles of colorful handmade pompoms in the hall had me intrigued (you know me and yarn..)...But well, seemed we 'should' go, so. ( read more (lots) )

things are moving way fast now...wish I had a week or so to just process and write. I'll have to write about the Boston Conference when I get back...because I'm running off to Miami for the art fairs!woohoo! It'll be me and Janey on the town,and a bunch of other artists I know are going... hopefully going to see all 7 (seven!!?!?geeeez!) of the fairs/events over the next 4 days. Despite all the hoopla and preparing I had myself a nice soup lunch at the magic bay today- awesome weather and just taking a moment to breathe and enjoy. NEEEED that.

Ok so this is the alternative event I'll be a part of down there:

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FRISBEE (miami)
DATES: December 1 > 4, 2005
TIMES: 1 > 7PM
PLACE: Cavalier Hotel 1320 Ocean Drive
(between 13th & 14th) Across from the beach (ocean)

FRISBEE is a nomadic curatorial project co-founded by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike.
14 hotel room installations which include: independent curatorial projects, artist’s projects, themed installations, and galleries. The lobby, hallway, and conference room will be installed with art and ephemera from our Special Projects list. The other great addition this year is a line-up of performances at the Cavalier and at other locations in Miami.

14 ROOM PROJECTS: Centre of Attention (London), Champion Fine Art (LA), Chris Verene Studio (NY), Anat Ebgi (NY), Gescheidle (Chicago), HEEB Magazine (NY), Joymore (Brooklyn), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects (Toronto), Metro Color Collision = Julie Fishkin + Matt Lucas, O H+T (Boston), Plush (Dallas), Sara Nightingale (Water Mill), Spirit Tours 2005: David Hardy + Siebren Versteeg (NY), Studio 1012 (Havana)

Artists in Room 107 (Sara Nightingale Gallery):
Seth Adelsberger, Peter Buchman, Darlene Charneco, Joseph Hart, Christa Maiwald, Abby Manock, Rachel Owens, Ryan Wallace, Andrew Schoultz

Wish me luck, I've still gotta figure out how to pack these works so my little trees don't get smashed. eeep.

*whew!!*
I wanted to post from Miami but everything was just a whirlwind and the gallery laptop in the room was having trouble keeping a connection....so I figured I'd wait til I got back. B and I drove down in the rented minivan packed with my art. Drove straight through, stopping only for bathroom and snacks. I drove through the Carolinas so he could get 6 hours rest. Wasn't as bad as I imagined, kept going listening to cds...Devdas soundtrack worked the best...singing along, picturing the movie in my head, I flew along. FOr the final stretch of my turn I used the Run,Lola,Run soundtrack for the adrenaline.Then we were there and just went straight to setting up the room with the gallery owners. After that we napped at our room in the Creek for a bit...

but I was excited to get out and look around. So after a bit, we went out to get some food on Lincoln Road, each got a cup of wine with our 'gourmet pizza' and relaxed out at the sidewalk table, peoplewatching and feeling fine, laughing that we escaped to Miami somehow in winter.
First day of the fair:CRAZINESS!!!( read more see pics )

Been staying up til around 5 am nightly now...trying to get the last 2 twelve inch and the last 17 baby(5 and 1/2") pieces done for -scope. Originally going for 20 teeny ones but I think this is what I can do. Ready for resin pour today. *fingers crossed for a good pour* Weather seems to be agreeable finally. yay.

We've booked to stay our first 2 nights in Miami at this bizarre semi-renovated hostel/arthotel called The Creek. Different artists designed/created the rooms.I'm SO hoping we get a really interesting one!
Check out some of the art rooms.
I'd love to do something like that one day. Stay at the hotel and create a room...I'd make some sort of candyland explosion sparklefest room- it'd be pretty darn amazing to sleep within methinks!*pictures the sparkles as she drifts off into lalaland*;)Who knows....I wonder how they select artists...

Anyhoo...Then Mr.B heads back and I'll be staying at the -scope room with my artwork for the remainder of the fair.
Those nights the events go on til 2am anyway....so I'll just be FINALLY closing the door and conking out where I fall I guess. eep, lordy...but I'll have nowhere to hide.. I'll have to find some sort of getawayfromitall space that I can take some breaks at during the whole thing.

Art in America ad is out (December issue- page 85). :)