KH – Turn-Based Press

We will be hosting a drypoint station at the PAMM Free Second Saturday Printapalooza Program during DWNTWN Art Days, Saturday, September 10, from 1 – 4 PM.

Come learn some drypoint basics with printmakers Kathleen Hudspeth and Thom Wheeler Castillo; participants will use etching tools to draw into prepared, upcycled paperboard matrices, after which the printmakers will ink then print the plate for you using a common kitchen gadget—a pasta maker!

Drypoint prints will be printed with real etching ink on German etching paper.

Though Robert Rauschenberg is more known for his interest in lithography and screenprinting, some of his work was inspired by the fabric traditionally used to wipe intaglio plates—a starched cheesecloth known as tarlatan. Rauschenberg created a series of lithographs on fabric, called Hoarfrosts, which stemmed from this inspiration.

One the founding pieces of PAMM’s collection, Rauschenberg’s Untitled, from 1986 uses copper as a substrate, subverting the typical use of copper as a matrix (plate) for intaglio processes (which includes drypoint). Supporting that subversion is the fact that the media used to create the work contain many materials typically used in various printmaking techniques, such as corrosives and ink. Additionally, the imagery supports this investigation of printmaking in that it contains a reproduction of a woodcut and screenprinted photographic imagery.

About PAMM’s Printapalooza:

PAMM Free Second Saturdays: Printapalooza program.
Roll-up your sleeves and get inspired by the mixed-media artwork of Robert Rauschenberg. Get to know your local printmakers by exploring the different pop-up stations and print your favorite pattern using different printmaking techniques.
Partnering organizations and artists include:

Exile Books; Printmaker Amanda Keeley

Extra Virgin Press; Printmaker Tom Virgin

Little Haiti Cultural Center; Printmaker Akete Chevers

Turn-Based Press; Printmakers Kathleen Hudspeth and Thom Wheeler Castillo

Turn-Based Press is happy to again be part of the official Art Basel Miami Beach Artist Studio Visits this year, along with other Downtown Art House individual artists and organizations. The event will be Friday, December 4, from 9 AM to Noon.

Nick Gilmore’s Paper Pavement will be on-view in our exhibition space and Founder and Co-Director Kathleen Hudspeth will be printing in our production space during that time.

The public is welcome to come and enjoy a last visit in this location. We will have prints for sale as well.

Official ABMB map and event information below:

Downtown Miami 2015 ABMB15_Artist Studio Visits_US-Letter

Paper Pavement, by Nick Gilmore, will be on view at Turn-Based Press through December, 2015.

A satellite presentation of Paper Pavement is installed at the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, and will be on view there through November.

Listen to a WLRN audio segment with Nick Gilmore and Turn-Based Press Founder and Co-Director Kathleen Hudspeth here.

Paper Pavement was created with the direct support of grants from the Miami Downtown Development Authority, and made during DWNTWN Art Days, 2015. Turn-Based press also receives ongoing institutional support from the Miami Worldcenter.

Come see the exhibit and live steamrollerprinting! #paperpavement #turnbasedpress #artdays

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During DWNTWN Art Days, 2015, artist Nick Gilmore will print the streets of downtown Miami as blind-embosses which will be exhibited as Paper Pavement at Turn-Based Press. The artist will be live-printing the work during mid-day Friday, September 11, and the exhibition will open Friday evening at 7 PM.

Paper Pavement tells a story of history and the future, the passage of time, the urban underfoot.

A steamroller navigates within the boundaries of a major commercial development zone, printing paper impressions of the streets along its path. Crumbling asphalt, utility covers, traffic signals, cement patchwork all characterize the area and its history in a way mostly ignored; easily disregarded. The impressions will tell the narrative of the place as it exists that very moment. A rutted road or cracked sidewalk takes on a different presence when transferred into a form embossed into paper. This Paper Pavement is displayed as a record and reflection of a city on the cusp of transformation.

Nick Gilmore is a sculptor, and an adjunct professor of printmaking at FIU.

A satellite presentation of Paper Pavement will be on view at the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, also opening Friday, September 11, 2015. MCAD serves as the welcome center for DWNTWN Miami, and will be the Miami Downtown Development Authority‘s headquarters during DWNTWN Art Days this year.

Large Format Relief Printing Workshop at Turn-Based Press with IS Projects

The workshop, held in collaboration with Ingrid Schindall of IS Projects and with the printing assistance of Nick Gilmore, will focus on the creation of mid-scale relief blocks that will be printed by steamroller during DWNTWN Art Days, September 2015.

Meets for 3 sessions:

Saturday, August 29
10 AM – 1 PM—Intro to Carving @ Turn-Based Press
Saturday, September 5
10 AM – 1 PM—Proofing @ Turn-Based Press
Saturday, September 12
11 AM – 2 PM—Invitational Steamroller Relief Printing Session @ Turn-Based Press during DWNTWN Art Days 2015

The Large Format Relief Printing Workshop with IS Projects at Turn-Based Press will teach participants the fundamentals of how to cut, proof and print a relief block in the first two sessions. The final session will be a steamroller-printing event which will occur during the annual, 3-day long celebration of art in downtown Miami: DWNTWN Art Days. This printing session will also be open to members of the community who wish to print their own large-scale blocks who pre-register with Turn-Based Press (contact KH@turnbasedpress.com).

In the first session, each student will learn how to “think print” when creating their own image to carve into the block as well as receive tips and tricks to carving large format relief images.

In the second session, students will learn how to ink up and print their blocks on an etching press and we will go over hand printing techniques for printing without a press at home.

The final result is a large-scale, steamroller-printed artwork composed of a matrix of the blocks produced as part of the workshop. Each student will leave the class with their block, proofs from the etching press, and a large-scale steamroller printed piece containing their image and the images of their classmates.

Workshop Cost: $140
Includes Materials; deposit required for the loan of some tools for take-home use.

Registration sign-up at this link.

Bethany Collins, currently an artist at the Fountainhead Residency, is working at the Press this week completing a set of blind embosses which will be unveiled in Chicago in August.

From one of her artist’s statements:

” . . . each new body of work borders on an obsessive preoccupation with language- it’s ability and inability to negotiate a way of being in the world. But I have found in my practice a delight in these obsessive preoccupations. And in the solutions they slowly, ever so slowly, but inevitably offer.”

Turn-Based Press Co-Director Thom Wheeler Castillo, and Emile Milgrim, founder of the Other Electricities record label as well as the Managing Partner at Sweat Records, worked together to create a special field recording and print project titled Archival Feedback.

The two took numerous field recordings throughout South Florida, edited and selected the best among them and handed them over to various sound artists, who then created sound-works in a call-and-response format.

OE041_Single_Cover — Screenprinted cover to the Archival Feedback single release. Artwork and printing by Thom Wheeler Casillo and Emile Milgrim.

The calls and responses were released by Other Electricities both digitally and on vinyl. Wheeler Castillo and Milgrim expanded the project by also collaborating on a series of screenprints that draw upon the history of Florida dating to the era of its original colonization, vernacular architectural elements, and the native flora and fauna. The screenprints were created at Turn-Based Press and are included in a special, box-set edition (the boxes are also hand-made). The regular record also has a hand-screened slipcover, and at the release party, digital download codes were available for purchase as variable, hand-screened post-cards.

Suspended in... — “Suspended in . . . “, screenprint by Thom Wheeler Castillo and Emile Milgrim, included in the Archival Feedback box set.

The prints are on view through June 21 at Clyde Butcher’s Coconut Grove Gallery, along with the chance to listen to some of the recordings. The record release party was held at the Miami Music Club in the Design District, and featured live performances by some of the Archival Feedback artists.

Prints by Thom Wheeler Castillo and Emile Milgrim; installation by Krel Levy. At Clyde Butcher’s Coconut Grove Gallery.

Archival Feedback has been reviewed and written about by several publications:

Spectral Hypnosis: Föllakzoid, Archival Feedback (Track Premiere), Redefine, April 21, 2015

Archival Feedback Reveals Miami’s “Complex Nature” through Sound, Miami New Times, April 23, 2015

Archival Feedback is research and fieldwork, print and sonic map, Knight Arts Blog, April 30, 2015

Archival Feedback record release event at the Miami Music Club, May 15, 2015. — Archival Feedback record release event at the Miami Music Club, May 9, 2015.

Adler Guerrier has an edition printed by Turn-Based Press on view as part of his installation for the booth for Marisa Newman Projects at Volta NY from March 5 – 8, 2015. The edition is in the form of a triptych, with the three prints each having a run of polyester plate lithography and a run of screenprinting.

Guerrier’s artwork is among a select group of featured artists from the Caribbean who were highlighted by this year’s curator, Amanda Coulson, head of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas.

The edition was printed by Kathleen Hudspeth; more information about the process is available at her website.

ABMB Artist Studio Visits
9 AM to noon, Friday, December 5, 2014.

Turn-Based Press is pleased to be part of the official Art Basel Miami Beach Artist Studio Visits from 9 AM to noon on Friday December 5. Come by to see our production area and facilities, and also be a part of a free, ‘gonzo-printmaking’ demonstration by Nick Gilmore at 10:30 AM.

Gilmore is a Miami-based visual artist who works primarily in sculpture and printmaking. He often draws inspiration from his experience in the woodworking and construction trades as well as Taoist philosophy. Gilmore’s work teeters between metaphor and pure abstraction as he tosses conventional printmaking techniques aside and employs non-traditional materials such as monofilament, wood shavings, and foam rubber to produce mixed-media monoprints. This experimental process blurs the role of both press and printmaker, and yields unpredictable and exciting results. This demonstration will be participatory.

Print Exchange
6 – 10 PM, Friday, December 5, 2014.

Friday evening, we’ll be opening Print Exchange, a show which offers for view works that have been traded for other prints or artwork, or were part of an organized print exchange. These prints emphasize relationships, something inherent in the medium. The artists who have generously shared their collections include Kathleen Hudspeth, Mira Lehr, Larry Newberry, and Carol Todaro.

The works in Print Exchange span a range of decades, and offer a variety of types and styles of printmaking. The artists’ collections speak of origin, context and community.

Drypoint and Monotype Demonstration
10:30 AM, Saturday, December 6, 2014.

Printmaker Melissa Agriesti will be offering a free demonstration of drypoint intaglio and monotype. The demonstration will include an introduction to dry point etching, plate inking and wiping, and the manipulation of materials using a printmaking press. Participants will create a drypoint using Plexiglas plates, and will also be hand-painting on the plates, which will then be printed using traditional intaglio presses. This demonstration will allow participants the chance to try drypoint and monotype for themselves.

Agriesti is a printmaker who specializes in making unique prints using a combination of modern and traditional printmaking techniques. She has a BFA in printmaking from the Cleveland Institute of Art and has studied and exhibited as a printmaker in both Japan and Australia. Currently Agriesti resides in Miami Beach, Florida and works as an artist and as a visual arts instructor for Miami Dade County Public Schools. Her favorite printmaking techniques are intaglio and monotype.

Turn-Based Press would like to invite you to meet Aidan Koch.

Turn-Based Press is hosting a chat with artist Aidan Koch while she visits Miami as a panelist at this year’s Miami International Book Fair. Featured on a panel discussing Best American Comics in 2014, her work explores fragmentation and symbolism within comics and painting. At TBP, Koch will show some work and talk about her process and how it pertains to comics and how that translates into other mediums.

Aidan Koch was featured in Turn-Based Press’ exhibition Tell It To My Face, recently scheduled for a second viewing at Florida Keys Community College Library/Gallery this December. She is the author/illustrator of Impressions, Field Studies, The Blonde Woman, and The Whale. She was a finalist for the 2012 Oregon Book Awards for literary arts, and a recipient of the Xeric Grant. Her Blue Period from Sonatina was selected for The Best American Comics 2014, an annual anthology that showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction — from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics, and the Web.

Koch was also featured in an interview with The Comics Journal that highlights her artwork and practice.

Author: KH