Exhibit runs August 1-28
Opening reception with live music by cannibal boom & Zottoh: Saturday August 1, 4-6pm
Open during all events, or email us to schedule a different time to view
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reishin norberto gómez jr (born 1983, Alice, Texas, USA) is an artist, writer, publisher, curator, and educator based in Washington, D.C. Their work engages the interstices and chasms of death, spirituality, and technology, along with aesthetics, horror, media studies, and popular culture. They are the co-founder and editor of Sybil Press (est. 2013), an independent publisher of zines, art books, and experimental print media. Sybil Press has participated in print, art book, and zine fairs across the U.S. and internationally, including Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Boston Art Book Fair, Tokyo Art Book Fair, and Vancouver Art Book Fair.
In 2025, their creative nonfiction piece “A Personal History of Evil – Haunted Houses” was published in a special issue—the first since 1985—of NO MAG, the legendary LA punk/art magazine founded in 1978. Their paintings have been featured in New American Paintings (#142), and recent exhibitions and curatorial projects include CICA Museum (South Korea), Gallery 5 (Richmond, VA), and King Street Gallery and AUX Gallery at Montgomery College (Maryland).
Recent scholarly publications include:
“Review of Ideal Subjects: The Abstract People of AI by Olga Goriunova,” boundary 2 53, no. 4 (forthcoming)
“From Friends to Monsters: The Horrors of Technology, Friendship, and the Monsters Next Door in Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend,” in Refocus: The Films of Wes Craven (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
“Eva Rocha: Digital Desaparecido in the Postinternet,” in Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production (University of Toronto Press, 2023)
They earned a BFA from Texas A&M University – Kingsville, an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Houston, and a PhD in Media, Art, and Text from Virginia Commonwealth University, where they studied digital sub- and popular culture broadly. They later obtained a post-baccalaureate certificate in Professional Spanish from Towson University and are currently studying Eastern Classics at St. John’s College. Social Media: @mailer.daemonik