The reclamation of an image
A look at Charles White’s Portrait and the source for this work
Categories: Gemini Ltd. • Tags: charleswhite
David Hockney: symbolic expressions of queer experience
Image: David Hockney, A diver, paper pool 17 1978, handcoloured pressed paper pulp. NGA 79.2343.1-12, © David HockneyImage: Kenneth Tyler, David Hockney taking Polaroid shots of Tyler pool for the ‘Paper Pools’ series with friends looking on and ‘Day Pool with Three Blues’ framed as a screen in the background, Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, 1979, photograph. NGA 180937 David Hockney moved to the United States from England in the early 1960s. The social and environmental conditions of […]
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Plastics and pathos: The making of Oldenburg’s Airflow
Oldenburg’s ode to a car, and the complex plastic processes behind its manufacture
Categories: 3D Multiples • Tags: oldenburg
Question: Helen Frankenthaler and the influence of Japanese art and culture
Image 1: Robert Motherwell, Automatism A 1966, lithograph. NGA 84.2970 © Dedalus Foundation, Inc. VAGA/Copyright AgencyImage 2 Helen Frankenthaler, Other generations 1957, oil on canvas. NGA 73.330 © Helen FrankenthalerImage 3: Sam Francis, Turn 1972, screenprint. NGA 73.993 © Sam Francis. ARS/Copyright Agency Helen Frankenthaler emerged in the New York art scene during the 1950s. From the beginning, her approach to painting was both confident and personalised and she quickly affirmed her position within the second generation of Abstract Expressionism. […]
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To make a brushstroke look like a brushstroke
by David Greenhalgh, Curatorial Assistant, Kenneth Tyler Collection. Roy Lichtenstein’s visual vocabulary of black outlines, block colour and Benday dots is well known. It was a style derived from commercial printing techniques and the distinct look of American comic books. But before his iconic Pop Art, Lichtenstein painted in the style of the Abstract Expressionists. From 1957 to 1960, he abandoned figuration to create large, colourful and patterned work, often using his shirt sleeve to push paint across canvas in […]
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PERCEPTION TEST
The Lead relief series are an ironic critique of visual culture, a rhetorical proposition to the looming, unanswerable question – how indeed are these objects intended to nourish us if their message is always changing?
Categories: Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL
Travelling through images: David Hockney in Mexico
It’s 1984 in Mexico and David Hockney is about to create a new series using a new piece of technology…
Categories: Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Acatlan, hockney, lithography, Mexico, Moving focus, Oaxaca
Kenneth Tyler: In Conversation
National Gallery of Australia Director Nick Mitzevich and Kenneth Tyler AO in conversation
Categories: Behind-the-scenes • Tags: california, Gemini GEL
Garo Antreasian: A print pioneer
In fond memory of printmaking pioneer Garo Antreasian
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Garo Antreasian, junewayne, lithography, Tamarind Lithography Workshop
Reflections on – Bedford II
Assistant curator Ella Morrison investigates Joan Mitchell’s Bedford II and the importance of colour to her work
Categories: Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Bedford Village, Joan Mitchell
Clogs, pulp and pressed flowers: Rauschenberg and Richard de Bas
In 1974, Tyler and Rauschenberg visited a French paper mill. Experiments with paper pulp, an inspired display case and a photo album were produced…
Categories: Gemini GEL • Tags: papermaking, Richard de Bas paper mill, Robert Rauschenberg
Reflections on – Abandoned book study
Artist and curator Anja Loughhead examines ‘Abandoned book study’ by Robert Motherwell
Categories: Reflections on, Tyler Graphics Ltd
Paper Rain: Rauschenberg, the document & archive
Curatorial assistant David Greenhalgh reflects on the use of documents and archival material in Rauschenberg’s work.
Categories: Gemini GEL • Tags: Robert Rauschenberg
The Gemini party photo
This incredible photo features many well-known artists from Tyler’s printing career. But a question remains unanswered: Who is the photographer?
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL
