Downtown Art House – Turn-Based Press

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

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.

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!