WESTPORT — “American Standard,” a solo exhibition by artist Banks Violette, will open March 15 at MoCA CT.

The exhibit depicts the artist’s vision of “an America caught in a cycle of reverence and decay,” according to the museum.

It opens with a reception at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at the museum, 19 Newtown Turnpike. It be on display through June 15. To register to attend the reception, click here.

“American Standard” will feature about 20 objects focused on three works presented in separate rooms: an American flag sculpture, a gas station installation and a video.

The steel-and-electric light sculpture of the American flag resembles a worn-out road sign, and, according to the museum, “Violette sees the flag not just as a national symbol, but also as a reflection of the systems that constitute America as a sovereign nation, from its settler colonialist roots to its imperial present.”

The salvaged and reassembled gas station is “broken and decayed, but the fluorescent lights still glow, symbolizing the lingering energy of a past era of excess — the gleeful tradition of car culture and its debts coming due before our eyes,” publicity for the display states.

The video created by Violette fashioned a projection of the winged horse from the old Tristar Pictures logo, showing Pegasus “frozen midair in a loop with its wings removed,” the museum said, and “resurrects the quintessentially American phantasms of the film studio and the theme park.”

Violette, based in Ithaca, N.Y., earned a BFA from the School of the Visual Arts and MFA from Columbia University. His work has been exhibited around the world and is the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

For questions or information about events planned in conjunction with the “American Standard” exhibition, check the MoCA CT website or call 203-222-7070.