linn meyers & Kendall Buster: speculative morphologies

speculative morphologies brings together the work of Kendall Buster and linn meyers, two artists who build imagined worlds through systems of line, shape, and form. Their practices transform essential forms into living images that shift, breathe, and evolve. In the exhibition, morphology becomes a way to understand not only how these works are made, but how they function as artworks that are open, dynamic, and alive with possibility.

Reexamining the divide between the organic and the artificial, speculative morphologies highlights the artists’ shared interest in unique visual languages. For Buster, this emerges as a “marriage of architecture and biology,” while Meyers situates her practice in an ambiguous terrain where thing and place blur. What appears structural may operate as environment, and a surface can act as both object and site. Together, their works challenge conventional notions of scale and spatial perception. A single mark or contour can expand into a monumental structure, while large forms can draw the eye inward toward the microscopic.

While these works transport viewers, they are undeniable proofs of human existence. Every curve, line, and layered surface is evidence of the artist’s hand, producing an otherworldly ecosystem animated by movement, and sometimes in stillness. 

By placing Buster and meyers in dialogue, speculative morphologies examines how disparate parts coalesce into a whole. The pairing invites viewers to consider how architecture and nature coexist when stripped of their familiar connotations and distilled to their most elemental forms: line and shape. In doing so, speculative morphologies proposes that refuge is not simply a place to find in our increasingly unstable and uncertain present, but can be a reorientation of one’s perception—a shift in how we see, sense, and connect with one another and with the world around us.

Curated by Georgetown University Curatorial Studies graduate students Abigail Dunnigan, Miranda Glasgow, Jessica Harris, Mia Johnson, Alexandra Morse, Qaman Omar, Anne Satre, Lily Schwegler, Reina Shin, and Mason Stempel, under the guidance of Professor Jaynelle Hazard. This exhibition is presented in partnership with The Kreeger Museum and highlights two artists whose work has contributed meaningfully to the museum’s curatorial legacy.

The exhibition is generously supported by Lucille and Richard F.X. Spagnuolo.