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Technique Tuesday: Frank Stella’s ‘Circuits’ series

January 31, 2017 by tylercollection

Frank Stella’s Circuits series 1982–84 represents a dramatic shift in Stella’s attitude toward printmaking.

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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.

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It’s all hands on deck to install 'The fountain.'

Installing ‘Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection’

November 18, 2016 by tylercollection

It’s been a big week here at the NGA as we’ve busily been installing Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection.

Categories: Behind-the-scenes, Exhibitions, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Behind-the-scenes, exhibitions, Frank Stella, Installation, Kenneth Tyler, mural, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, prints, Stella, The fountain, Tyler Graphics, Tyler Graphics Ltd

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.

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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 […]

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Beyond Print: Documenting the living history of the National Gallery of Australia's Kenneth Tyler Printmaking Collection

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