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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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The prints of Anni Albers: line involvements

April 17, 2014 by tylercollection

  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

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Josef Albers

November 22, 2012 by tylerblogs

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

The Tyler candid photography collection

May 17, 2012 by tylercollection

The votes are in! You asked for more candid photographs from behind the scenes, so we thought we would begin with an overview of this unique collection. The Tyler candid photography collection contains thousands of rare candid photographs of artists at work in the  Tyler workshops, as well as in their own studios. The collection is an invalubale resource for students, teachers, scholars and fans of printmaking, providing a unique insight into the working methods of Tyler and his dedicated workshop […]

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: candid photography, Facebook, Helen Frankenthaler, James Rosenquist, Josef Albers, Kenneth Tyler, lithograph, Nancy Graves, National Gallery of Australia, Paul Jenkins, Tyler Collection

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The Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler CollectionArchive

April 11, 2011 by Tyler Collection

The Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Collection Archive (CCGA) is a sister institution to the National Gallery of Australia’s Kenneth Tyler Printmaking Collection, located in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture. Following the tragedy of the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear threat, we are very pleased to report that all staff members are safe. The CCGA building sustained some damage and is currently closed; our thoughts and best wishes are with the CCGA staff and their families as they […]

Categories: Artists, Exhibitions, Galleries, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: CCGA, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Japan, Josef Albers, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein

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The Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler CollectionArchive

April 11, 2011 by tylercollection

The Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Collection Archive (CCGA) is a sister institution to the National Gallery of Australia’s Kenneth Tyler Printmaking Collection, located in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture. Following the tragedy of the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear threat, we are very pleased to report that all staff members are safe. The CCGA building sustained some damage and is currently closed; our thoughts and best wishes are with the CCGA staff and their families as they […]

Categories: Artists, Exhibitions, Galleries, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: CCGA, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Japan, Josef Albers, Ken Tyler, Kenneth Tyler, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Tyler Graphics

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