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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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Frank Stella 'Dubiaxo' from the 'Imaginary places II' series 1996

Frank Stella: Saving abstraction

November 11, 2016 by tylercollection

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.

Categories: Artists, Exhibitions • Tags: Abstract Art, abstraction, artist, arts, Caravaggio, Exhibition, Frank Stella, Kenneth Tyler, Moby Dick, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, prints, Stella, The fountain, Whitney Museum

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