Phantom Frame
STNDRD Exhibitions is pleased to present Phantom Frame at NON STNDRD, an exhibition platform for contemporary art and site-responsive interventions located on the campus of the National Building Arts Center.
Phantom Frame will open with a free and public reception on Saturday, May 30, 2026, from 3:00–6:00 pm. The exhibition will remain on view through July 11 and 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.
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. Expanding outward into broader considerations of attachment and detachment, context and reinterpretation, preservation and transformation, the exhibition 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.
