The drummers who were involved in First Beat at PAMM used the Turn-Based Press space for practice for the event. Check out this short video from Tom Tom Magazine of one of the practice sessions.
The actual event was wonderful; the experience of hearing drums resounding throughout the museum, searching the individual drummers out and admiring their performance was both exciting and enjoyable. So many people from the local art community were in the museum that day–along with masses of others. The day was balmy and invigorating. It was a great first Second Saturday in the new building.
The morning of the Artist Studio Visits for Downtown Miami was sunny and warm; Turn-Based Press had a nice crowd of guests, many of whom were friendly, familiar faces. A Close Readwas available for viewing as well, the new Perez Art Museum Miami was just a stroll down the street, and most of the local art organizations in the neighborhood were also open. It was a wonderful morning to be downtown.
A Close Read will be on view on Dec. 6, from 6 – 10 PM for the Downtown First Friday events. It will also be available for viewing that morning, from 9 AM to Noon, as part of the ABMB Artist Studio Visits.
The show features more than 25 local artists and displays small scale prints, books and works-on-paper no larger than 6″ x 6″. Two demonstrations will be held as part of the morning event.
The show will be on view through Dec. 22nd, 2013. For viewing hours outside of the Dec. 6 events, please contact KH@turnbasedpress.com or info@turnbasedpress.com.
Turn-Based Press is pleased to announce that we’ll be part of the official Downtown Miami Art Basel Miami Beach Artist Studio Visits on Friday, December 6, 2013, from 9 AM until noon. We’ll have two demonstrations to offer to guests, as well as the current small-works exhibit, A Close Read, which will also be on view during the Downtown First Friday Art Walk, from 6 – 10 PM that evening.
Encaustic Printmaking Workshop, 10 AM, Dec. 6
Elaine Defibaugh will be sharing her insights into the Enkaustikos printmaking technique; this is a direct transfer method which does not require the use of a press and can easily be adapted for home or studio production. The images produced are expressive and painterly, and the simplicity of the technique makes it an easy, entry-level process for those interested in monotype.
Defibaugh has studios in Miami and New York City, and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. She has work in the collections of Butler Institute of American Art, Memorial Art Gallery, Whitney Gallery at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Jewish Homes, SUNY Brockport, and Jewish Homes in Rochester, NY. Defibaugh is also the recipient of two Pollock Krasner grants, as well as a Constance Saltonstall Foundation grant.
Mare de Deu deis Dorors, Elaine Defibaugh; encaustic monotype
Book-binding Workshop, 11 AM, Dec. 6
Carol Todaro will bind and finish a small edition of artists’ books entitled Book. Designed and printed by Todaro and Turn-Based Press founder Kathleen Hudspeth, Book transposes lines from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons (Objects) onto a playful, screenprinted sheet that will be bound in two pamphlet styles, one folded and one sewn. Each version of Book shuffles the reading order of the text and shifts the presentation of the images in a brief meditation on printing, books and words as objects.
Carol Todaro is an artist and writer who combines both activities by making artists’ books. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the Library of Congress and the Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University, among other public institutions, have collected her work. Her poetry chapbook Moonviewing (Floating Wolf Quarterly # 7) was released in 2011. She teaches at New World School of the Arts in Miami.
A Close Read, Nov. 1 through December 22.
A Close Read is positioned in opposition to the whirlwind that is the end of year art season in Miami. Comprised of prints, artists’ books and works-on-paper no larger than 6” x 6”, A Close Read will offer intimate, individual presentations, fostering in the viewer—or reader–a moment of focus and reflective, considered observation. The exhibition features the work of more than 25 local artists.
Opening Friday, November 1, in conjunction with the Downtown Miami Art Walk, Turn-Based Press will be exhibiting A Close Read, a show of small-scale books, prints and works on paper. The show will run through December 22nd.
A Close Read is positioned in opposition to the whirlwind that is the end of year art season in Miami. A Close Read will offer intimate, individual presentations, fostering in the viewer—or reader–a moment of focus and reflective, considered observation.
Works will continue to be added to the exhibition through December 15, 2013; the addition of new works on a regular basis will allow the audience, though repeated viewings—or readings—to build a more complex relationship with the exhibition.
The exhibition will feature local artists predominantly.
Some workshops will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition; the dates of those will be announced on the Turn-Based Press website.
Our second DWNTWN Art Days 2013 event was fun–and a little inky. TBP printed a 5-color split fountain screenprint for the TM Sisters as a live printing demo after an introductory talk.
The first night of DWNTWN Art Days, for which Turn-Based Press opened the show Impressions: a Selection of Academic Printmaking and Artists’ Books from South Florida, had a great turn-out! Below are a few images from the evening. The show will have another reception on October 4 as part of the Downtown First Friday art walk.
Participating artists are: Edgaryn Abreu, Katie Lynn Acosta, Elina Diaz, Marco Di Giovanni, Danny Euceda, Cynthia Fleischmann, Lorna Ruth Galloway, Jose Garcia, Griselle Gaudnils, Javier Guarezma, Victor Giraldo, Saba Ghani Zahedi, George Herrera, Kathleen Hudspeth
Michelle Izquierdo, Milydis Llanos, Eddie Lopez, Cynthia Milans, Larry Newberry, Lizzie Newberry, Sarah Newberry, Brian Perez, Beatriz Rodriguez, Susan Sargsian, Lani Marie Shapton, Carol Todaro, and George Wayne.
Turn-Based Press opened a show of works-on-paper and book arts in our exhibition space on May 3rd, 2013. The show is on view through June 15, 2013 and include works by: Warren Craghead, Denise Delgado, Antonio Fernandez, Adler Guerrier, Sabetty Patterson, Rob Stephens, Kari Snyder, Jonathan Thomas, Carol Todaro and Peter Borrebach, and Javier Torres.
The show has some wonderful pieces, and I hope that everyone enjoys it as much as I do.
Books, sequencing, pagination, text and the absence thereof are a theme which runs throughout the works.
A missing gap in a collograph printed on two large sheets of paper can echo the smaller rectangles and pages of its neighbor.
Rhythmic rectangles within rectangles–inkjet prints, screenprints, photos, books, pockets, and pages.
Friday, June 7th, 2013, is the final First Friday Downtown Artwalk of the Spring season, and Turn-Based Press will be open from 6 – 10 PM. 100 NE 11th ST, Downtown Miami, FL.
A video from the May 3rd opening, featuring the folding of some do-it-yourself books can be found here.
Our inaugural print effort is one that we think is amusing; Functional Print Series (One), is a series in which we depict items we need. They’re printed as simple screenprints from hand-drawn positives, and they’re quirky loving renditions of common printshop items that we’ll have to acquire.
We Need Sinks and Trays!
With this series, we’re also playing with the idea of the edition as a commercial strategy. During this era of nearly infinite repeatability, editions are seldom restricted by the physical limitations of the process, as they were in days of old. Lots of folks think of editions as if an edition were merely the opposite of an exclusive, unique, expensive art object. In printmaking circles, however, there are ideas about editions being non-localized conceptual presentations, the artifact of wear or error enforcing limitations on production, a varied yet repeatable statement, and so on.
We Need a Ferric Chloride Set-Up!
What we’ve done is tallied the costs for the depicted items, then divided that by the number of impressions. Each impression (excluding We Need to Pay People!) is therefore valued at 1/60 of the cost of these items we need. Should Turn-Based Press be given any of the depicted items, that value will be subtracted from the price of the total cost, which lowers the cost per impression.
At this moment, each impression is valued at $187.00; the total cost of all the equipment (new, though I shopped competitively) would be $11,227.68.
We’re also amusing ourselves by setting a value on the works which is not associated with an artist’s market value. Though I personally drew, exposed, printed and signed them, they function only as a product of the press. I even signed them KH/TBP rather than my usual signature.
We Need a Fire Safe Cabinet and Can!We Need a Hot Plate and Drying Racks!
The prints were installed for the Art Basel Miami Beach Open Studios 2012 event, but they’ll be coming down this week as we make some space for a Young Arts exhibition.
We Need Flat Files!
Created as a kind of tanget to the above series, the print We Need to Pay People!, stands alone. We valued it differently. It starts at a base price of $50 per impression (edition of 10), but then we ask the purchaser to pay whatever amount they like on-top of that. This reflects upon the fact that a lot of labor in the arts is done unpaid, or as a volunteer effort.
We Need to Pay People! is a two-run screenprint on a buff-colored paper. The print has a gloss coat (which appears more sparkly than flatly shiny), and is signed on the back.
When you purchase one from the edition, it will come with a Certificate of Authenticity, which will include a small essay explaining the series. A PDF of the text is below.
