Paper Pavement, Nick Gilmore at Turn-Based Press, 2015

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Steamroller-embossed prints of the streets of downtown Miami, by Nick Gilmore, exhibited at Turn-Based Press.

Opening night photo from Paper Pavement by Nick Gilmore at Turn-Based Press.

Opening night photo from Paper Pavement by Nick Gilmore at Turn-Based Press.

Opening night photo from Paper Pavement by Nick Gilmore at Turn-Based Press.

Opening night photo from Paper Pavement by Nick Gilmore at Turn-Based Press.

Opening night photo from Paper Pavement by Nick Gilmore at Turn-Based Press.

Paper Pavement, Nick Gilmore at Turn-Based Press, 2015

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.

 

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Artist Nick Gilmore will print the city streets of downtown Miami during the annual DWNTWN Art Days, 2015.  Live printing, Friday, September 11; Opening Friday September 11, 2015 at 7 PM. Turn-Based Press, 100 NE 11th ST, Miami, FL, 33132

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.

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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.”