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This year’s DWNTWN Art Days event will run from September 19 – 21st. Turn-Based Press will be hosting two events, a workshop and a related exhibition.

The workshop, Comic Art Workshop: Draw and Print! will be a five hour long story-building and screenprinting adventure lead by Tom Hart, the Founder and Executive Director of the Sequential Artists Workshop, a free-standing school for comic art in Gainesville, FL, and Kathleen Hudspeth, Founder and Co-Director of Turn-Based Press. The workshop will be held at Turn-Based Press, Saturday, September 20, from 10 AM to 3 PM.

For more information about the Comic Art Workshop, visit our Workshops page; space is limited to 14 participants, and the fee is $50.

The exhibition, Tell It To My Face, will feature works from SAW as well as works by local artists, and will be an exhibition of works on paper, prints and artists’ books focusing on narrative content and storytelling. Tell It To My Face opens Saturday, September 20, with a reception from 7 – 11 PM. It will also be on view for DWNTWN Art Days on Sunday, September 21, from 11 AM – 2 PM.

More information about DWNTWN Art Days events can be found here.

Bookleggers, the mobile library run by Nathaniel Sandler, held a two-year anniversary party at the Downtown Art House on July 26, 2014. Sandler stores the Bookleggers books in the racks adjacent to the Turn-Based Press gallery and wash-out room.

In addition to Bookleggers giving out two free books for the celebration, there was an artists’ flea market organized by Natasha Lopez de Victoria, called the City Magic Bazaar; plenty of folks set up shop and were selling all manner of things. Turn-Based Press had a table at which we featured prints from The Good Inn as well as the Functional Print Series One. Gramps set up a bar-kiosk, and provided us with champagne, beer and cosmopolitans.

Some photos from the event are below–you can see what a fantastic turnout it was!

There will be another City Magic Bazaar during September’s upcoming Downtown Art Days, 2014.

Also check out this great slideshow of photos from the event at the Miami New Times!

The one-night only SOFLO Prints and Publications event at Turn-Based Press was a great success. The mood was warm and friendly, and folks seemed to have a wonderful time. We were happy to share Julia Arredondo and Tom Virgin‘s work with everyone.

Photos from the event below. Art-is-About has some video footage and good images of the artwork.

SOFLO Prints & Publications is a one-night-only art event occurring at Turn-Based Press Saturday, May 24, from 6 – 9 PM featuring printed matter by artist Julia Arredondo, Conversation Too (Convo 2), a letterpress book that was printed and hand-bound by Tom Virgin which features content created by multiple artists and writers, and the release of a cassette-tape by Fsik Huvnx for the Other Electricities label which features a hand-screenprinted case.

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The completion of Arredondo’s four-month period as the Artist-In-Residence at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, will be celebrated by the exhibition of works produced during that time and she will have stationary and zines on view as well that were also created by her, as Vice Versa Press.

Virgin’s book, published by his own Extra Virgin Press, was also produced at the Jaffe Center during the time that he held the Helen M. Salzberg Artist Residency.

About Julia Arredondo:

Originally from Corpus Christi, Texas; Arredondo received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010. For the past three years Arredondo has been traveling to artist residencies around the country, and will be completing her latest residency at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts in Boca Raton at the end of May. Since landing in South Florida, Arredondo explores the cultural terrain of Boca Raton and travels to Miami in order to participate in print research and O, Miami events.

About Tom Virgin:

Tom Virgin is a Miami based artist exhibiting prints, book arts, and public art. Born and raised in the Midwest (Detroit, Michigan), he finds living as a minority in Miami-Dade County for the last twenty years enlightening. For the last several years he has spent summers in artist’s residencies across the United States in National Parks and artist’s communities.

He has taught as an adjunct professor for the University of Miami and Miami Dade College, and currently teaches in Miami Dade County Public Schools. He has taught Drawing, Book Arts and Printmaking around South Florida and in residencies around the country.

Elwood’s Gastro Pub will be providing hummus and pita platters for the event. Elwood’s is located at 188 ne 3rd ave Miami 33132; 305 358 5222.

The event will have an after party at Gramps, which will be featuring the monthly Southernmost Soul Party, with DJs Action Pat and Sensitive Side.

Learn about the event on the Turn-Based Press facebook page.

Some of Steven Appleby‘s illustrations for The Good Inn were translated into both Pronto Plate Lithography and Screenprinting. See them in person on Friday, May 2 at Turn-Based Press. 100 NE 11th ST, Miami, FL, 33132.

Turn-Based Press will be publishing a series of prints based on illustrations by Steven Appleby from the illustrated novel The Good Inn. The book was co-authored by Black Francis and Josh Frank, and there will be an event at the Press on May 2nd at 7 PM. Frank will offer a reading, and prints will be on view. Both the books and prints will be for sale.

Currently, Frank is on-tour promoting the novel, which releases April 15. Turn-Based Press has printed the first of the series–an edition of 75 two-run hand-pulled screenprints that Frank will have with him at various events around the country. The prints are $20 each. A partial event schedule and list of locations is below:

April 14–Book People, Austin, TX.

April 18–Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theater, Los Angeles, CA.

April 25–Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY. Steven Appleby, Black Francis and Josh Frank will all be present at this event.

April 29–Brattle Theater/Harvard Square, Boston, MA.

May 2–Turn-Based Press, Miami, FL.

May 9–Books and Books, Miami, FL.

May 22–Powell’s Books, Portland, OR.

May 23–Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA.

Author and book descriptions from publisher of The Good Inn, HarperCollins:

From legendary Pixies front man, Black Francis, in collaboration with writer Josh Frank and renowned illustrator Steven Appleby, comes The Good Inn, a bold and visually arresting novel about art, conflict, and the origins of a certain type of cinema

In 1907, the French battleship Iéna was destroyed when a nitrocellulose-based weapon propellant it was carrying became unstable with age and self-ignited, killing 120 people. A year later, La Bonne Auberge became the earliest-known pornographic film, depicting an intimate encounter between a French soldier and an innkeeper’s daughter. Like all films at the time, and for decades afterward, it was made with a highly combustible nitrocellulose-based film stock.

Loosely based on historical events, The Good Inn follows the lone survivor of the Iéna explosion as he makes his way through the French countryside. He falls into a strange love affair with an innkeeper’s daughter and, even more deeply, into a volatile counteruniverse where war and art exist side by side.

But The Good Inn is also the very real story of the people who made the world’s first stag film, and Francis weaves together real historical facts to re-create this lost piece of history, as seen through the eyes of a shell-shocked soldier who finds himself that film’s subject and star. Through his journey we explore the power of memory, the simultaneously destructive and restorative power of light, and how the early pioneers of pornography helped shape the film industry for generations to come.

Black Francis (born Charles Thompson and a.k.a. Frank Black) is the founder, singer, guitarist, and primary creative force behind the acclaimed indie rock band the Pixies. Following the band’s breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black. He re-formed the Pixies in 2004 and continues to release solo records and tour as a solo artist, having readopted the Black Francis

Josh Frank is a writer, producer, director, and composer. He is the author of Fool the World: The Oral History of the Band Called Pixies and In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre. Frank has worked with some of the most innovative musicians, filmmakers, producers, and artists in the entertainment industry, including Black Francis, David Lynch, Mark Vonnegut, and Harold Ramis. He has interviewed more than four hundred of America’s most notable names in show business for his books and screenplays. In his spare time he runs his mini urban drive-in movie theaters in Austin, Texas, and Miami, Florida.

Learn more about Frank’s Mini-Urban Drive-In, the Blue Starlite, here.

Thom Wheeler Castillo, one of Turn-Based Press’ Co-Directors, lead a walking tour through Downtown that focused on public artworks for the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s Creative Industries Committee.

He lead the group to see a mural at the Freedom Tower, outdoor installations at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and then he brought them back to the Downtown Arthouse where they discussed the building’s mural, after which Jim Drain hosted the group in his studio and spoke about his commission that was recently installed at the Port of Miami.

After the tour, the group enjoyed a reception in the Turn-Based Press production area, with food and drink catered by Elia, a nearby Greek restaurant. Conversation was lively, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves quite a bit.

The March 7 opening of Fathoms was a great success! Guests filled Turn-Based Press, Dimensions Variable and the parking lot (where Bobby Flan was performing). Everyone was highly complementary of the show, and the atmosphere was supportive, open, fun and friendly.

Work by Nick Gilmore.

Work by AdrienneRose Gionta and Yasmin Khalaf.

Work by Ivan Santiago.

Work by Gardner Cole Miller.

Work by Joe Locke.

Exhibition text.

Bobby Flan in the parking lot.

More Bobby Flan in the parking lot.

Work on the Dimensions Variable side.

A scene from the Dimensions Variable side.

During the opening, some parts were delivered to the press, which added extra excitement to the event.

More scenes from the opening on the TBP side below.

Ivan Santiago has a post of many excellent photos from the second Fathoms reception here.

Turn-Based Press, Dimensions Variable, and Florida International University present an exhibition showcasing FIU’s MFA candidates.

AdrienneRose Gionta, Andrew Horton, ARG + Yasmin Collaborative, Gardner Cole Miller, Ivan Santiago, Joe Locke, Kristin O’Neill, Nick Gilmore, Yasmin Khalaf

“It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.”
John Locke – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Change offers the false promise of progress but is rarely an upward trajectory. The landscape is one situation built upon another and the division of both becomes blurred. Place is as much a location as it is a duration. Through various practices this group of artists tries to grasp at an ever-changing present and find the conflicts that occur where a new situation begins to overtake the old. This exhibition will examine the spaces created in this flux, what is lost, and what it is to try to create something solid in a place where the ground is always shifting. The intention is neither to be a memorial to a lost place or a monument to progress, but an attempt to fathom the possibilities of place.

The works featured in Turn-Based Press, complementary to the collaborative installation in Dimensions Variable, focus on concrete compositions and abstract conceptions of place and space. Through a diverse range of processes including painting, printing, sewing, and digital media these artists reproduce and re-imagine the various locales and environments suggested by the images and materials central to each work. Tensions between familiar places and unknowable spaces arise in the photographic urban cityscapes of Ivan Santiago as well as the collaboration between Yasmin Khalaf and AdrienneRose Gionta whose uncanny domestic interiors are imagined and explored through painting and digital reproduction. Zines by Joe Locke “highlight the affect of place” through the obsolescence of photocopy reproduction. Nick Gilmore’s abstract landscapes destabilize the conventional process of printmaking by thrusting the paper’s two-dimensional surface into a three-dimensional space. Gardner Cole Miller’s work in fiber and tarpaulin subvert the traditional, repetitive process of quilting while drawing material inspiration from the historic narratives associated with the places they inhabit.

Fathoms opens March 7, 2014, from 7 – 10 PM and will be on-view through April 12, 2014.
The March 7th opening will include a performance by Bobby Flan, from 8 – 11 PM.

Information about the artists:

AdrienneRose Gionta (b. Brooklyn, NY) works across diverse media often engaging computer based practices and conceptual subject matter. She examines para-feminist dialogues and existential conundrums through video games and social media. Her work can currently be seen in I Think It’s In My Head at Girls Club and Abracadabra at The Art & Culture Center of Hollywood. She has previously exhibited at David Castillo Gallery, The 6th Street Container and Locust Projects and will have her first solo museum exhibition at the Frost Museum this spring. Gionta’s work is included in several private collections including the Francie Bishop Good + David Horvitz collection.

Andrew Horton (b. Miami, FL) is a mixed-practice artist. His work is concerned with phenomenology and seeks to be constantly elusive. His work has been show at Dorsch Gallery, Leonard Tachmes Gallery, and Scope Art Fair and is in the collection of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum.

Bobby Flan (b. Brooksville, FL.) is an artist who investigates the formal ties between sound and the movement of bodies. Working across sonic disciplines—including but never limited to: techno, shallow house, post-punk, and IDM (Imbecilic Dance Music)—Flan composes works that negotiate the canon of electronic music by way of ransom. His work has been shown at Bas Fisher Invitational, General Practice, Churchill’s Pub, and a tiny, unnamed bar in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, among others.

Gardner Cole Miller produces fiber-based quilting projects that draw inspiration from histories of conquest and expansion, seeking to examine continuities and discrepancies between pasts and present. Through a combination of traditional techniques and unconventional materials, crafted narratives attempt to connect times, places, and peoples.

Ivan Santiago (b. Miami, FL) received his Bachelors in Fine Arts in Photography and is currently working on his Masters in Fine Arts in Photography and Time-Based Media from Florida International University. He uses the sharp reality of photography and video to draw intimate observation of the urban landscape. The plain beauty of a common or ignored space is favored over the archetypical “scenic” landscape. He has been included in shows at The 6th Street Container, The Martin Z. Margulies Collection, The Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Objex Art Space among others.

Joe Locke is an artist whom through photography and raw materials creates visual arrangements that challenge the narrative nature inherent in the photographic object. By downplaying the narrative he is able to highlight the affect of place in his representations.

Kristin O’Neill (b. Key West, FL) is an artist that is exploring the unification of marine forms and man-made material to explore her identity. She is examining personal relationships with marine culture and her upbringing on an island-based environment such as her living, environmental and social conditions.

Nick Gilmore (b. Mobile, AL) is interested in concepts of entropy, landscape, and the sublime. Combining elements of printmaking, sculpture, and painting, his artwork emphasizes materials and process, while teetering between metaphor and pure abstraction. He has shown locally at Locust Projects, The 6th St. Container, and Turn-Based Press.

Yasmin Khalaf works with painting and drawing materials to explore uninhabited spaces that evoke a psychological affect. Her works have been exhibited at the 6th Street Container, Audrey Love Gallery at the Bakehouse Art Complex, and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum.

Since 2009, artists and writers have been coming together to create a broadsheet edition for a project called Sweat. One of the portfolios produced in the course of this project is in the collection of the Jaffee Center for Book Arts at the Florida Atlantic University library, and an exhibition of the works was shown in 2012 at the Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus Centre Gallery.

This upcoming Fall 2014, another exhibition will be held at the Freedom Tower–now the Miami-Dade College Museum of Art and Design–of new editions created for the project. Last night at Turn-Based Press, we had a meet and greet event to introduce visual artists and writers to each other.

Turn-Based Press will continue to support the production of the Sweat Broadsheet project in ways that we’ll announce soon.

Author: KH