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Workshop staff inking and wiping the plate for Frank Stella's 'Swan engraving square IV', Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, September, 1982

Backwards intaglio: making Frank Stella’s ‘Swan Engravings’

August 18, 2017 by tylercollection

With the support of the Tyler Graphics team, Frank Stella was able to create innovative prints that radically reinterpreted the possibilities of printmaking processes and materials. One of our favourite stories about working with Stella is Rodney Konopaki’s recollections of using 17,000 Q-tips to remove ink from the intaglio plates for the Swan engravings series. This project, which developed concurrently with the ground-breaking Circuits series, was radical for the way sculptural cut-offs were assembled onto a board to create a […]

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Art, artists, etching, Frank Stella, ink, intaglio, printmaking, prints, rodney konopaki, swan engravings

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Technique Tuesday: Frank Stella’s Moby Dick domes

December 19, 2016 by tylercollection

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.

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Technique Tuesday, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Art, artists, Behind-the-scenes, etching, Frank Stella, Herman Melville, intaglio, Ken Tyler, Kenneth Tyler, lithography, Moby Dick, National Gallery of Australia, paper, papermaking, printmaking, prints, relief printing, Stella, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics, Tyler Graphics Ltd, works on paper

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Tribute to Ed Baynard

November 22, 2016 by tylercollection

In memory of Ed Baynard we share this touching obituary by Marabeth Cohen-Tyler, first published in The New York Times, 22 November 2016

Categories: Artists • Tags: Art, artists, color, colour, ed baynard, euology, obituary, printmakers, prints

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Ed Baynard drawing on an aluminium plate for ‘The sunflower’, Tyler Graphics Ltd, Bedford Village, New York, 1980. Photo: Lindsay Green

Vale Ed Baynard (1940-2016)

November 15, 2016 by tylercollection

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. […]

Categories: Artists • Tags: Art, artists, ed baynard, eulogy, Ken Tyler, Kenneth Tyler, obituary, printmaking, prints, woodblock

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Joan Mitchell, Sunflowers II 1992

Painting Joan Mitchell

October 14, 2016 by tylercollection

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.

Categories: Artists, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Abstract Expressionism, Art, art history, artists, Bedford Village, colour, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Ken Tyler, Kenneth Tyler, Nathan Kernan, National Gallery of Australia, New Orleans, painting, Paris, poems, poetry, printmaking, prints, Sunflowers, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics, Tyler Graphics Ltd, Willem de Kooning

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Between the sheets of ‘Gray instrumentation II’

September 23, 2016 by tylercollection

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

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Albers, Alice Desmond, Anni Albers, Art, art history, artists, Bauhaus, canberra, color, colour, Gray Instrumentation, homage to the square, Josef Albers, National Gallery of Australia, poems, poetry, portfolios, printmaking, prints, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics, Tyler Graphics Ltd

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If this chair could talk

September 4, 2015 by tylercollection

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

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ARTIST IN FOCUS: Per Inge Bjørlo

June 24, 2011 by Tyler Collection

The Kenneth Tyler Printmaking Collection contains prints made by seventy seven artists. Today we are taking a closer look at the work of Norwegian artist Per Inge Bjørlo. Bjørlo collaborated with Ken Tyler on several projects during the mid to late 90s, producing the series Heads from Balance and several other prints. Like much of his oeuvre – which includes painting, sculpture and installation – the work produced at Tyler Graphics Ltd. investigates the workings of the human psyche. Executed […]

Categories: Artists, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Art, artists, Kenneth Tyler, Per Inge Bjørlo, printmaking, prints, Tyler Graphics

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Frank Stella awarded the ISC’s ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’

May 4, 2011 by Tyler Collection

Last month Frank Stella was awarded the International Sculpture Center’s (ISC) Lifetime Achievement Award at a gala event in New York City. Established in 1991, the award recognises artists whose sculptural practice has made ‘exemplary contributions to the field of sculpture’ and who are considered ‘masters of sculptural processes and techniques’. Stella and Ken Tyler share a collaborative working history that spans three decades and countless innovative projects across an astounding range of media. Tyler was invited by ISC to give […]

Categories: Artists, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Abstract Expressionism, Art, artists, candid photography, Frank Stella, International Sculpture Center, Ken Tyler, Kenneth Tyler, Lifetime Achievement Award, prints, sculpture, Stella, Tyler Graphics Ltd

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