Transparency and noise: Sonnier’s screenprints
David Greenhalgh examines Keith Sonnier’s 1973 ‘Video Still Screen’ series, their noise and how the artist reimagined television
Categories: Gemini GEL • Tags: Sonnier
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Reading, writing and performing clear vision
Ruby Rossiter explores Bruce Nauman’s 1973 print ‘Clear vision’.
Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL • Tags: Bruce Nauman, Clear vision, Gemini GEL, Kenneth Tyler, lithography, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking
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
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
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
Reflections on – The English still life series
Marking the beginning of the new ongoing series ‘Reflections on’, this month Assistant Curator of the Kenneth Tyler Collection Ella Morrison responds to the six lithographs that comprise Joe Goode’s ‘The English still life series’ (1967).
Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL, Gemini Ltd., Reflections on • Tags: Gemini GEL, lithography
David Hockney’s cancellation proofs
In conjunction with the exhibition ‘David Hockney Prints’ a selection of cancellation proofs are currently on display at the National Gallery of Australia, offering viewers a rare glimpse at this little known practice of print workshops.
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL • Tags: Alice Desmond, Art, canberra, cancellation proofs, David Hockney, hockney, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, prints, Tyler Collection
If this chair could talk
Spanning nearly four decades, the history of the Tyler workshops is a rich and complex one, weaving together artists, printers, papermakers, industry collaborators, photographers, writers, film makers, curators, family and friends. Over the years, many of these people sat, mused and even worked in an antique barber’s chair carefully selected by Ken Tyler for the studio. In today’s post, Tyler reveals the story of this unusual workshop fixture. In 1965, when I set up […]
Categories: Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL, Gemini Ltd., Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: artists, candid photography, Gemini GEL, Gemini Ltd, Kenneth Tyler, Koken barber chair, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Tyler Graphics Ltd
Sid Avery: stars on camera
The 1976 documentary film Reaching out: Ken Tyler, master printer takes viewers into renowned print workshop Gemini GEL, Los Angeles, providing us with behind-the-scenes footage of master printer Ken Tyler at work with Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney.
Categories: Gemini GEL • Tags: David Hockney, Documentary, Gemini GEL, Kenneth Tyler, Lee Tirce, Michael Crichton, Roy Lichtenstein, Sid Avery
The prints of Anni Albers: line involvements
Julia Greenstreet, Curatorial Assistant, Kenneth Tyler Collection, reflects on the prints of Anni Albers – one of the 20th century’s most influential textile artists and a brilliant printmaker. Anni Albers (1899 – 1994) began her career as a weaver and only turned to printmaking when she was in her sixties. At the core of both her textiles and prints are a set of fundamental principles established during her years at the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop which guide her creative process […]
Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Anni Albers, aquatint, Bauhaus, etching, Gemini GEL, Josef Albers, Kenneth Tyler, lithograph, lithography, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, prints, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, textiles, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics Ltd, weaving
Paper: the next frontier
Following our recent look at Anthony Caro’s paper sculptures produced at Tyler Graphics we wanted to discuss the importance of papermaking in Tyler’s workshops and the innovative ways in which handmade papers were used. As this story spans almost four decades we’ve just touched on a few things here and hope to explore it further in the new year with a dedicated ‘paper page’ on our website. Upon opening his own workshop in 1965, Tyler began a long and involved […]
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd, Uncategorized • Tags: France, Gemini GEL, paper pulp, papermaking, Richard de Bas paper mill, Robert Rauschenberg, Tyler Graphics Ltd
Kenneth Tyler honoured at IPCNY
Each year the International Print Center New York (IPCNY), an institution ‘dedicated to the appreciation and understanding of fine art prints’ holds a spring benefit honouring luminaries of the print world. This year art writer Faye Hirsch, artist Robert Mangold and master-printer Ken Tyler were the honourees celebrated at a function on May 15. Frank Stella, Tyler’s long-time friend and collaborator, presented Tyler with his award and gave a presentation discussing Tyler’s unique printmaking career. These images were taken during the […]
Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Frank Stella, International Print Center, International Sculpture Center, Kenneth Tyler, Liam Alexander, New York
Josef Albers
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Earlier this month Vogue Australia contacted us for permission to use two of our fabulous Josef Albers prints for their January 2013 issue. This got us thinking about the unique relationship that Kenneth Tyler shared with Albers, and below we have compiled some candid shots to accompany a brief history of the artist and master printer’s working relationship. Tyler and Albers first worked together at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. When Tyler moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to set […]
Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: embossing, Gemini GEL, Josef Albers, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, screen-print, Vogue Australia
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