Chadwick Rantanen


The Jancar Jones Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibit of work by Chadwick Rantanen.  The show will include work in a variety of media, installed “without touching the gallery.”  Drawn from the nostalgia of his youth and upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness, Rantanen’s selection of work will engage aspects of the system in which he grew up while illustrating the ways that he addressed such regulations.

Including paintings on paper, mixed media sculptures and video, the work will be shown on a carpet cut vaguely to the size of the gallery.  By using a surface whose boundaries will instead contain the work, Rantanen will attempt to dissolve the prescribed relationship between his work and its environment.  By creating intermediaries between the work and the gallery, Rantanen not only divorces his practice from the space in which it is exhibited but paradoxically draws attention to that which is being abandoned.  The work in the show is given a mobile context in which to reside as a sort of step away from a reliance on the architectural space in which it is placed.   Furthered in his black and white video compilation of the most austere scenes from National Geographic documentaries, the question of “neutrality” is raised not only in the installation but also in the work itself.

Chadwick Rantanen received his BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  His work has most recently been exhibited at Artists Space in New York, Homie Gallery in Berlin, and Southern Exposure in San Francisco.

Jancar Jones

Malmö Konsthall


Malmö Konsthall presents three new exhibitions by Johanna Billing, Sergej Jensen and Josef Strau, and an outdoor project by Isa Genzken.
Malmø Konsthall

Rashid Johnson


The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center is Rashid Johnson’s 3rd solo show at moniquemeloche. Johnson returns to his hometown to transform the gallery into a mystical, recreation space remixing black history with references to alchemy, divination, astronomy and other sciences that freely combine the natural and spiritual worlds.

“I’m thinking of this show as a creolized orgy between Sun Ra, Paul Gaugin. Kazmir Malevich, Debra Dickerson and Eldridge Cleaver (if his soul were no longer on ice). Mix in some green plants, shea butter, black soap and serve.” Rashid Johnson summer 2008.

New photographs, sculptures, and “paintings” are only part of this site-specific installation.

Rashid Johnson (b. Chicago, 1977, lives NY) is a conceptual artist who works in myriad media including sculpture, photography and video, among others. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005) and his BFA from Columbia College, Chicago (2000). His work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C.; the Institute of Contemporary Photography, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago where he had a solo exhibition. Upcoming exhibitions include 21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum opening September 19, a solo exhibition at galeria annarumma 404, Milan, Italy in November, and 30 Americans at the Rubell Family Collection, Miami in December.

Monique Meloche

Daniel Guzman


..::::Here we are, alone again. It`s all so slow,
So heavy, so sad… I`ll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They’ve talked.
They havent`t said much. They`ve gone away. They`ve grown old, wretched, sluggish, each in some corner of the world.

Nils Stærk