STNDRD, the experimental flag-themed project of St. Louis curator/printmaker Sage Dawson, has been housed in the foyer of The Luminary since its debut in the fall of 2016. Travis Janssen: Inverse (After Jasper) came down last week, and so ended STNDRD's first era. Today, Dawson announces some exciting news: STNDRD is moving, and will be re-map-pinned in Springfield, Illinois, specifically at the artist-run DEMO Project, where it will be installed outdoors, on the gallery's porch. It will return to St. Louis in the Spring of 2018.
STNDRD's exhibits will continue to, in Dawson's words, "examine the power and potentiality of flags, richly evidenced by flag history and use within contemporary art, as cultural objects that abstract, encapsulate, and canonize." In a press release, DEMO added that artists will respond to the flagpole mounted to the facade of the building, and potentially the building itself (pictured above). Here is the schedule for STNDRD's run at DEMO:
Garry Noland (August 11 through September 2, reception August 11): This Kansas City- and Los Angeles-based artist has showed at beverly in 2014, and at Dawson's Ghost popup at The Luminary, so there is a good chance you may already be familiar with his work; on his website, he states of his work that "the one constant is an openness to rough patches, glitches or mistakes." Here's his portfolio page on STNDRD's website.
Breanne Trammell (September 8 through October 7, reception September 8): Based in Kent, Ohio, Trammell is a multidisciplinary artists with a printmaking background that uses pop culture imagery in her work; here's a very recent writeup of a group show at BOX Gallery in Akron that includes some commentary on her approach to art-making.
Alika Cooper (October 13-November 4, reception October 13): Cooper's also shown in St. Louis (at SLAM and fort gondo). She's based in Los Angeles. Here's a writeup from earlier this year about Wet Suits, an exhibit of hand-dyed fabric paintings, which showed at Good Weather Gallery in Little Rock, Arkansas.
We'll post more about the artists and their upcoming shows as the exhibit dates get closer. In the meantime, you now have a very good reason to make an hour-and-a-half road trip—or, if you're feeling more leisurely about it, note there's an Amtrak line that goes straight to Springfield.
