Events – Turn-Based Press

We will be hosting a drypoint station at the PAMM Free Second Saturday Printapalooza Program during DWNTWN Art Days, Saturday, September 10, from 1 – 4 PM.

Come learn some drypoint basics with printmakers Kathleen Hudspeth and Thom Wheeler Castillo; participants will use etching tools to draw into prepared, upcycled paperboard matrices, after which the printmakers will ink then print the plate for you using a common kitchen gadget—a pasta maker!

Drypoint prints will be printed with real etching ink on German etching paper.

Though Robert Rauschenberg is more known for his interest in lithography and screenprinting, some of his work was inspired by the fabric traditionally used to wipe intaglio plates—a starched cheesecloth known as tarlatan. Rauschenberg created a series of lithographs on fabric, called Hoarfrosts, which stemmed from this inspiration.

One the founding pieces of PAMM’s collection, Rauschenberg’s Untitled, from 1986 uses copper as a substrate, subverting the typical use of copper as a matrix (plate) for intaglio processes (which includes drypoint). Supporting that subversion is the fact that the media used to create the work contain many materials typically used in various printmaking techniques, such as corrosives and ink. Additionally, the imagery supports this investigation of printmaking in that it contains a reproduction of a woodcut and screenprinted photographic imagery.

About PAMM’s Printapalooza:

PAMM Free Second Saturdays: Printapalooza program.
Roll-up your sleeves and get inspired by the mixed-media artwork of Robert Rauschenberg. Get to know your local printmakers by exploring the different pop-up stations and print your favorite pattern using different printmaking techniques.
Partnering organizations and artists include:

Exile Books; Printmaker Amanda Keeley

Extra Virgin Press; Printmaker Tom Virgin

Little Haiti Cultural Center; Printmaker Akete Chevers

Turn-Based Press; Printmakers Kathleen Hudspeth and Thom Wheeler Castillo

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

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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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.

ABMB Artist Studio Visits
9 AM to noon, Friday, December 5, 2014.

Turn-Based Press is pleased to be part of the official Art Basel Miami Beach Artist Studio Visits from 9 AM to noon on Friday December 5. Come by to see our production area and facilities, and also be a part of a free, ‘gonzo-printmaking’ demonstration by Nick Gilmore at 10:30 AM.

Gilmore is a Miami-based visual artist who works primarily in sculpture and printmaking. He often draws inspiration from his experience in the woodworking and construction trades as well as Taoist philosophy. Gilmore’s work teeters between metaphor and pure abstraction as he tosses conventional printmaking techniques aside and employs non-traditional materials such as monofilament, wood shavings, and foam rubber to produce mixed-media monoprints. This experimental process blurs the role of both press and printmaker, and yields unpredictable and exciting results. This demonstration will be participatory.

Print Exchange
6 – 10 PM, Friday, December 5, 2014.

Friday evening, we’ll be opening Print Exchange, a show which offers for view works that have been traded for other prints or artwork, or were part of an organized print exchange. These prints emphasize relationships, something inherent in the medium. The artists who have generously shared their collections include Kathleen Hudspeth, Mira Lehr, Larry Newberry, and Carol Todaro.

The works in Print Exchange span a range of decades, and offer a variety of types and styles of printmaking. The artists’ collections speak of origin, context and community.

Drypoint and Monotype Demonstration
10:30 AM, Saturday, December 6, 2014.

Printmaker Melissa Agriesti will be offering a free demonstration of drypoint intaglio and monotype. The demonstration will include an introduction to dry point etching, plate inking and wiping, and the manipulation of materials using a printmaking press. Participants will create a drypoint using Plexiglas plates, and will also be hand-painting on the plates, which will then be printed using traditional intaglio presses. This demonstration will allow participants the chance to try drypoint and monotype for themselves.

Agriesti is a printmaker who specializes in making unique prints using a combination of modern and traditional printmaking techniques. She has a BFA in printmaking from the Cleveland Institute of Art and has studied and exhibited as a printmaker in both Japan and Australia. Currently Agriesti resides in Miami Beach, Florida and works as an artist and as a visual arts instructor for Miami Dade County Public Schools. Her favorite printmaking techniques are intaglio and monotype.

Turn-Based Press would like to invite you to meet Aidan Koch.

Turn-Based Press is hosting a chat with artist Aidan Koch while she visits Miami as a panelist at this year’s Miami International Book Fair. Featured on a panel discussing Best American Comics in 2014, her work explores fragmentation and symbolism within comics and painting. At TBP, Koch will show some work and talk about her process and how it pertains to comics and how that translates into other mediums.

Aidan Koch was featured in Turn-Based Press’ exhibition Tell It To My Face, recently scheduled for a second viewing at Florida Keys Community College Library/Gallery this December. She is the author/illustrator of Impressions, Field Studies, The Blonde Woman, and The Whale. She was a finalist for the 2012 Oregon Book Awards for literary arts, and a recipient of the Xeric Grant. Her Blue Period from Sonatina was selected for The Best American Comics 2014, an annual anthology that showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction — from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics, and the Web.

Koch was also featured in an interview with The Comics Journal that highlights her artwork and practice.

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.