Past Residents
Past Resident
2019: Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Chadwick Rantanen
Chadwick Rantanen appropriates the forms of familiar consumer goods and modifies and re-contextualizes them into sculptural tools. In doing so, he creates opposing acts of compromise and dissent, acquiescence and insubordination, tension and harmony and the passive aggressive. Adapting and conforming to architecture and infrastructure, Rantanen’s sculptures mimic installations or site-specific works, often taking the form of an adaptor, wedging between objects and their sources of power, articulating a web of accommodation, compromise, maintenance and parasitism by slightly detouring energy, but never causing harm.
Chadwick Rantanen has exhibited work at Secession Vienna; STANDARD (OSLO); and Essex Street, New York, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2019
March 29–March 30, 2019

Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Pole [Walkerball/Stars&Stripes], 2011, anodized sandblasted aluminum and walkerballs, telescopic dimensions: 114 to 311, Ø 1.5.

Chadwick Rantanen, Fluorescent Fitting, 2013, copper, wire, urethane plastic, and acrylic tube.

Chadwick Rantanen, Loop (Flower Friends), 2013, fabric, plastic, powder coated carbon fiber rod, steel ferrules, tags, dimensions variable.

Chadwick Rantanen, Peel (Unknown Sunburst), 2018, vinyl, antimicrobial film, powder coated steel, and tarp clips, 261/2 × 541/2 × 6 in. (67.31 × 138.43 × 15.24 cm).
Residents from United States
Thiago Honório
Thiago Honório’s research starts from a interdisciplinary matrix. It is fueled by a transit between the ordinary and the extraordinary, by an encounter of different temporalities from the experience between the private and the public spheres, from different kinds of knowledge and exchanges, based on procedures such as displacements and assemblies.
Thiago Honório has exhibited work at Museu de Arte de São Paulo – MASP; Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo; and Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, among others.

Thiago Honório, Solo, 2017, roca head image from the 18th century, taipa and pau a pique, 1511/2 × 7013/16 in. (384.81 × 179.83 cm).

Thiago Honório, Trabalho [Work], 2016, tools used in the restoration of an electrical power substation, dimensions variable.

Thiago Honório, Boate azul, in collaboration with Pedro Vieira, 2016, remaining material of Boate azul’s dance floor, designed by Brazilian artist Mary Vieira for Palace Cassino building, in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, cataloged and relocated to the previous Cassino da Pampulha building, actual Museu de Arte da Pampulha, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 5511/8 × 25913/16 in. (1399.79 × 659.89 cm).

Thiago Honório, Pau-Brasil, 2014, facsimile of Oswald de Andrade’s book “Pau Brasil” (1925) and pau-brasil wood, 63/16 × 51/8 × 103/16 in. (15.75 × 12.95 × 25.91 cm).

Thiago Honório, Pintura de parede [Wall Painting], 2013-14, worn out sandpaper on wallpainting.
Past Resident
2019: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Linda Reif
Linda Reif’s photographic image production tends toward sculpture and abstraction. Her work is strongly linked to an interest in lens-based media and methods reflect the unsentimental way she approaches photography. Her main focus lies in the distortion, the non-glossy impact of images, while investigating the vulnerability of photography and the poetic impact of sculptural display.
Linda Reif has exhibited work at New Jörg, Vienna; Treignac Projet, France; and periscope, Salzburg, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2018
November 9–November 10, 2018

Linda Reif, Nature Is a Mess and Someone Cleaned Up the Mess, 2017, photographic emulsion on cardboard, 11 x 11 in. and 10 x 7 in.

Linda Reif, Tu Felix Austria, 2016, photogram and Ytong, 13 × 11 × 15 in. (33.02 × 27.94 × 38.1 cm).

Linda Reif, Harvey, 2017, photogram, cardboard, and wood, 25 × 7 in. (63.5 × 17.78 cm).

Linda Reif, Nebulous, 2016, photographic emulsion on acrylic glass, brick, and spray paint on wood, 15 × 9 × 4 in. (38.1 × 22.86 × 10.16 cm).

Linda Reif, Pipe, 2018, photographic emulsion on cardboard and wire, 16 × 10 × 8 in. (40.64 × 25.4 × 20.32 cm).