The difference between the two rests in their degrees of success. The efforts of artists, on the other hand, produce far more open-ended results. From cobalt and sky-blue Formica and fake marble, he has fashioned a faux kitchen. Several continents distant, Charlton completed the installation through e-mail and digital camera shots sent to Ripps and the museum staff. Charlton has shown his installations in Boston and Maine, but since he graduated in 1986, most of his exhibits have been in New Zealand.
Viewers can look into the museum from narrow cuts in the barrier.
From afar, hanging on the wall, the colors and shapes suggest flowers and sky. At close range, the images are trapped, fractured, segmented and roped off with net-like lines. Darrow, who graduated in 1996, was in a group show at the Lake George Arts Project last year and at Lulu Gallery in 1995. Since graduating in 1990, Buvoli has exhibited his work in New York, California, Italy and South Africa. Abou-Chamat, like Buvoli, alters a conventional image by adding to it.