Phantom Frame will close with a reception on Saturday, July 19th 1-4pm at NON STNDRD located on the campus of the National Building Arts Center.
The exhibition features work by Alberto Aguilar, Conrad Bakker, Sarah and Joseph Belknap, Danny Bracken, Juan William Chávez, Robert Chase Heishman, and Marina Peng. “Phantom Frame” is curated by Allison Lacher and Jeff Robinson.
Informed by its proximity to one of the most expansive collections of built environment artifacts in the United States–that of the National Building Arts Center (NBAC)–and the industrial environment around it, “Phantom Frame” engages a site where architectural artifacts, industrial remnants, and landscape conditions persist beyond the structures and systems they once belonged to. The exhibition explores what survives when structure falls away and how fragments continue to generate new frameworks of meaning.
Taking its title from the idea of a structure that is no longer fully present yet continues to inform what remains, “Phantom Frame” begins with the architectural language of ornament, form, and structure, while also considering how fragments shape the frames through which meaning is constructed and understood. The exhibition expands outward into broader questions of attachment and detachment, context and reinterpretation, preservation and transformation.
“Phantom Frame” ultimately reflects on the generative possibilities of incompleteness. It proposes that fragments need not point only toward loss or absence, but may instead offer new ways of understanding history, memory, and the unstable structures–physical, cultural, and emotional–that continue to shape lived experience.
STNDRD Exhibitions presents Mirror Garland Great Symbol by Jordan Geiger with Emma Wang on view June 27th -August 14th. A reception will be held on Saturday, July 25th from 5pm-7pm.
Mirror Garland Great Symbol imagines the flagpole of STNDRD as a stake in the ground, from which a message is issued in the form of a banner. Taking the symbolic realm as an intermediary between the seen and unseen, an offering is made to the spirit of the place, an image created as a sort of diplomatic liaison between the eternal and the timebound.
Jordan Geiger is an artist and musician from Boonville, MO. He received a BFA from the Fiber Department at the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University. In addition to creative pursuits, he is a hospice volunteer and a Buddhist practitioner in the Tibetan tradition. He currently teaches Drawing in the Foundations Program at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Emma Wang is an artist who works across printmaking, letterpress, textiles, and mixed media sculpture. She is interested in bridging the gap between the holy and the everyday by converting mass-produced garbage into tools for worship. Wang has a BA from Washington University.