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August 21–22, 2020: See us at the North Carolina Art Book Fair at 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, NC. Cancelled due to COVID-19.

December 19, 2019, 6:00–8:30pm: See us at Supergraphic Mini Printed Matter Fest at Supergraphic Warehouse. Unit 2220L, Ample Storage, 2240 Dominion Street, Durham, NC 27704.

December 6, 2019, 11:30am–4:30pm: See us at the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale University Art Gallery.

October 26, 2019: Taylor Simone, The Artist is Presence, Part I. Exhibition: 7–10pm. Performance and live stream: 8pm. Open hours: Saturday, November 2, 1–4pm or by appointment.

Taylor Simone is a graphic artist, designer and writer from Metro Detroit. She explores identity in relation to the performance of domination culture. Her practice explores the duality of performing within the domination and ritual making as a resistant anti-performance. Simone received her BFA in Graphic Design from Eastern Michigan University in 2015 and MFA in Visual Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019. She has recently exhibited work in the 2018 Surface Festival in Venice, Italy and the Exhibition Contemporary Landscapes at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Taylor currently is based in Bowling Green, Ohio, working as a faculty member at Bowling Green State University.

October 13, 2019: Visit our table at Zine Machine Durham Printed Matter Festival at the Durham Armory, Durham, NC. 11am–6pm.

July 28, 2019: Visit our table at the Greensboro Zine Fest at Revolution Mill/WAMRev Gallery. 11am–5pm.

May 25, 2019: Jonh Blanco, An American Standard. Exhibition: 7–10pm. Performance: 8pm. Open hours: Thursday, May 30, 7–9pm or by appointment.

There is a newly constructed colonial-style house on a generous pine filled lot along a gravel road adjacent to a winding creek. It is architecturally generic, like many other homes scattered across this part of North Carolina. However what is unique is this house is home to former Teen Mom 2 reality TV star Jenelle Evans, her husband David Eason and three children. In late April 2019 media outlets reported that Eason shot and killed Nugget, their family french bulldog for allegedly biting his 2-year-old daughter. I was curious to know a little bit more about Eason. So I looked at his Instagram and found images of him parading confederate flags, high power rifles, stockpiles of ammunition, sexy photos of his wife, and endearing images of his children.

Inside homes with a history of domestic violence, pets are likely to be the target of abuse, and people who are the victims of abuse often refuse to seek shelter for fear of abandoning their pets. Seventy-one percent of pet-owning women who go to abuse shelters reported that their abuser had injured, maimed, threatened or killed pets, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

And according to the American Humane Association, a child growing up in the United States today is more likely to have a pet than a father at home.

Jonh Blanco, An American Standard, draws a performative circle around sorrowing current events of violence. Manifesting in two parts, public and private; the TV accessible here in the living room, and the inaccessible artist in the washroom. My idea is to inhabit the ephemeral public site organized as an artist community and yet, close off the private interior washroom and live stream from within it. This performance makes concrete the relatable emotions that exist for me in response to the visible, unspeakable, conscious conditions of violence. An audience is presented with what is within the picture frame and everything else that surrounds it, including the aroma of warm apple pie.

Jonh Blanco, An American Standard, Site-responsive performance installation, live-streamed, dimensions vary, 2019

Nugget number four through eight, series, play clay, e6000, acrylic, dimensions vary, 2019

Family, play clay, e6000, acrylic, dimensions vary, 2019

Buy Made In The U.S.A. (AR-15), play clay, e6000, tempera on panel, dimensions vary, 2019