There’s a wonderful little online exhibition of works by the mixed media artist Darlene Charneco over on Flickr. The ravishing pix are from her recent show in Chelsea’s Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC. Here’s a snip from Darlene’s Flickrspace:

Through the images in Gameland, Darlene Charneco continues to explore the meeting points of real life and virtual life, concepts mined in earlier exhibitions with Morgan Lehman Gallery, Everywhere and Cyburbia.

In this exhibition, she investigates 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.

Ms. Charneco’s work draws on a number of sources, including network theory, geographic information systems, video games, virtual worlds, childhood toys and educational tools. It is informed by her research and participation in online communities such as Myspace, LiveJournal and Flickr and an experimental community project called BetterWorldIsland within the 3D virtual world of SecondLife.