James Rosenquist (1933-2017)
We were saddened to hear news over the weekend that James Rosenquist passed away on 31 March 2017 in New York City.
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Technique Tuesday: Frank Stella’s ‘Circuits’ series
Frank Stella’s Circuits series 1982–84 represents a dramatic shift in Stella’s attitude toward printmaking.
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Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection
‘Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection’ is on display now at the National Gallery of Australia. Drawn from the NGA’s collection of over 1,100 editioned prints, experimental proofs and matrices by Frank Stella, the exhibition shares the full trajectory of Frank Stella’s innovative printmaking career. Take a sneak peek inside
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Technique Tuesday: Frank Stella’s Moby Dick domes
The creation of the three dimensional Moby Dick (domes) series 1992 was one of the most technically challenging printmaking projects that Kenneth Tyler and Stella undertook in over thirty years of collaboration. To achieve their ambition of creating an edition of sculptural prints, Tyler and his team spent nearly six years perfecting a process that literally pushed printmaking into a new dimension.
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Film launch! Kenneth Tyler: The Art of Collaboration
We are excited to announce that on Saturday afternoon we will be screening our new film ‘Kenneth Tyler: the art of collaboration’ at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra!
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Tribute to Ed Baynard
In memory of Ed Baynard we share this touching obituary by Marabeth Cohen-Tyler, first published in The New York Times, 22 November 2016
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Installing ‘Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection’
It’s been a big week here at the NGA as we’ve busily been installing Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection.
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Vale Ed Baynard (1940-2016)
With sadness we share the news that artist Ed Baynard passed away last week on November 8. Baynard was born in Washington DC in 1940 and was known for his still life watercolours, paintings and prints. Baynard worked with Kenneth Tyler and the Tyler Graphics team several times in the 1980s and 1990s, experimenting with woodcut, intaglio, lithography and monotype to create four series. The following essay by Julia Greenstreet was first published in Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection 2015. […]
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Frank Stella: Saving abstraction
Artist Frank Stella and master printer Kenneth Tyler played a significant role in the development of twentieth-century American printmaking. Throughout his career, Stella has been a constant adventurer and highwire act, an ‘unstoppable risk-taker’, as collaborator Tyler described him in April this year.
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Technique Tuesday: Nancy Graves’ Synecdoche
This #TechniqueTuesday we’re sharing behind the scenes insight from Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection about Nancy Graves’s first foray into intaglio printing at Tyler Graphics in 1977, where she produced the Synecdoche series
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Painting Joan Mitchell
Julia Greenstreet reveals, behind a ‘biting tongue and searing temper’, the exceptional life of artist-philanthropist Joan Mitchell. A rare woman among the American Abstract Expressionists and a guiding star to many that followed, she was a force to be reckoned with and a potent and generous advocate for the arts, finding powerful expression in the way she lived as much as in her work as a painter and printmaker.
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Frank Stella exhibition coming soon!
‘Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Collection’ opens at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra on 19 November in the Orde Poynton Gallery, located on Level 2.
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Technique Tuesday: Masami Teraoka’s ‘Hawaii snorkel’ series
Teraoka’s work in both paint and print is distinctive for bringing together the precise and contained style of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, with surprising and often humorous elements of contemporary western life and American pop culture
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Between the sheets of ‘Gray instrumentation II’
A selection of screenprints from Josef Albers’ Gray Instrumentation II portfolio of 1975 is on display now in the International galleries at the National Gallery of Australia. Here we look back at Albers’s relentless investigation of shades grey and share the poetry that interleaved the portfolio
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