STNDRD + NON STNDRD is pleased to announce the spring program of exhibitions, opening on Saturday, April 5, 2025 up through May 30th.
STNDRD will feature Devils Demons and Deuteronomy by Allen Moore and curated by Purple Window Gallery. Join us for a free public reception for this exhibition on Saturday, April 5 from 6:00 to 8:30 PM with a performance by Allen Moore at 7:30pm.
Allen Moore: Devils Demons and Deuteronomy
Moore presents an installation using his collection of glow-in-the-dark artifacts and the process of making as a way of coping with grief, anxiety, depression, and confronting racism. Devils Demons and Deuteronomy takes ownership of Blackness and the power of resistance. This exhibition is part of a gallery exchange between Purple Window Gallery and STNDRD Exhibitions. Devils Demons and Deuteronomy is the first of three projects Purple Window Gallery will facilitate during their Curatorial Residency at STNDRD Exhibitions during 2025. Allen Moore is a Black interdisciplinary visual artist, experimental turntableist, sound artist, educator and youth mentor born and raised in the Historic Village of Robbins, IL. Moore holds a Bachelors of Arts from Chicago State University, a Masters in Arts from Governors State University and a Masters of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University in 2016. His recent body of work investigates both the audio and visual element of Black death and Black grief. His conceptual premise is to analyze the signifiers of Blackness through performative improvisation and experimentation. Moore is driven to nurture and expand the agency of the Black imagination. Moore has exhibited and performed across the greater midwest, including exhibitions at Tritriangle, Heaven Gallery, Compound Yellow, Experimental Sound Studio, Elastic Arts, Threewalls, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Roots & Culture Gallery, Lula Cafe, The Star Media Group, Union Street Gallery, The Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, among other cultural institutions. Moore has had solo exhibitions at Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago (2024), Cleaner Gallery + Projects, Chicago (2022 + 2024), Upper Iowa University Bing Davis Gallery (2022), Open Studio Projects, Evanston (2020), Elgin Community College (2019), Nightlight Studio, Chicago (2016), Autotelic Studio, Chicago (2015), Cicero Public Library (2015), and Gallery 214 at Northern Illinois University (2015).STNDRD is an artist-run contemporary art program featuring exhibitions and site-responsive projects that rely on unconventional public sites. Our flagship location relies on a 15-foot flagpole that serves as an installation site. Artists consider the history and contemporary relevance of flags as cultural artifacts, and often draw from the cultural, historical, and architectural composition of surrounding communities and landscapes.
