Listen to a WLRN audio segment with Nick Gilmore and Turn-Based Press Founder and Co-Director Kathleen Hudspethhere.
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.
Paper Pavement, Nick Gilmore at Turn-Based Press, 2015
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.
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.”
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.
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 . . . “, 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:
