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!

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

Bookleggers Two-Year Anniversary and City Magic Bazaar, 2014

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.

Turn-Based Press, Julia Arrendondo, Other Electricities Pop-up S

Turn-Based Press, Julia Arrendondo, Other Electricities Pop-up S

Turn-Based Press, Julia Arrendondo, Other Electricities Pop-up S

Turn-Based Press, Julia Arrendondo, Other Electricities Pop-up S

SOFLO Pop-up Shop Other Electricities Fsik Huvnx at Turn-Based Press (smaller)

SOFLO at Turn-Based Press, photo by Tom Virgin 2

Turn-Based Press, Julia Arrendondo, Other Electricities Pop-up S

Turn-Based Press, Julia Arrendondo, Other Electricities Pop-up S

Turn-Based Press, Julia Arrendondo, Other Electricities Pop-up S

Turn-Based Press, Julia Arrendondo, Other Electricities Pop-up S

Turn-Based Press, Julia Arrendondo, Other Electricities Pop-up S

Turn-Based Press, Julia Arrendondo, Other Electricities Pop-up S

SOFLO at Turn-Based Press, photo by Tom Virgin

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.

[More info follows the images.]

Print by Julia Arredondo

Print by Julia Arredondo

Zine by Julia Arredondo

Zine by Julia Arredondo

Spines of the hand-bound book Convo 2, by Tom Virgin.

Hand-screened Cassette Tape case for Other Electricities
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.

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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.

A Map from Here to the End, screenprint from an Illustration by

Curtains, Screenprint from an Illustration by Steven Appleby for

Pronto Plate prints of an illustration by Steven Appleby, printe

Right Way Up  (Pronto Plate edition) from The good Inn, by Black

The Good Inn edition

The Good Inn edition

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.

Right Way Up  (Pronto Plate edition) from The good Inn, by Black

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.

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 Read was 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.

Book Binding Demonstration at Turn-Based Press, Dec. 6, 2013, AB

Book Binding Demonstration at Turn-Based Press, Dec. 6, 2013, AB

Encaustic Monotype Demonstration with Elaine Defibaugh at Turn-B

Encaustic Monotypes done during the demonstration at Turn-Based

Encaustic Monotype Demonstration with Elaine Defibaugh at Turn-B

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.

Installation detail of A Close Read at Turn-Based PressThe 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
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.

Official ABMB Downtown Miami Artist Studio Visit Map