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June 25, 2024
"Almost 50 years after the first BMW Art Car, we have come full circle. The first BMW Art Car, which was designed by Alexander Calder in 1975, débuted at the Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans. Shortly after its premiere as the 20th BMW Art Car, Julie Mehretu’s BMW Art Car lined up at Le Mans with the matching starting number 20. For the design, Julie Mehretu set out to create a playground for the imagination. Her thought: What might the painting look like if the car were to drive through the work and be influenced by it?
Julie Mehretu has therefore based the design of the 20th BMW Art Car on the colour and form of her painting “Everywhen”: alienated photographs, dotted grids, neon-coloured spray paint, and her iconic gestural markings. In the course of the creative process, this was transformed into a three-dimensional representation by means of elaborate wrapping on the BMW M Hybrid V8." - BMW
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December 7, 2023
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to be participating in Art | Basel Miami Beach 2023. Come visit us at Booth D40 to see Richard Serra's new series ‘Notebook Drawings’, alongside featured selections by centennial artists Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, and Sam Francis. Other featured artists include Julie Mehretu, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Rauschenberg
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January 9, 2023
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce that we will be participating in Frieze Los Angeles from February 16th to 19th, 2023. Come visit us at Santa Monica Airport Barker Hangar Booth H10.
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November 23, 2022
Gemini G.E.L. is participating in Art Basel Miami Beach, December 1-3 2022. Annabel Keenan wrote a wonderful article featuring Gemini about featured booths at the fair, which can be found here.
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February 9, 2022
Gemini is participating in Art Basel OVR starting Wednesday 2/9 - 2/11! Check out our online viewing room here.
Thank you to The Guardian for featuring our OVR in their recent article "Escape reality: images at the edge, from Kashmir to the cosmos – in pictures"
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February 2, 2021
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present its second exhibition of new work by Tacita Dean, on view now through February 2021. Pantone Pairs features 80 monoprints that combine antique postcards from the artist’s extensive collection paired with a commercially-printed Pantone card.
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January 7, 2021
For the Art Basel Miami Beach 2020 Online Viewing Rooms, Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present new editions by Tacita Dean, Toba Khedoori and Analia Saban, as well as recent editions by Julie Mehretu. Past editions from artists who represent the history of Gemini G.E.L. include works by Jasper Johns and Philip Guston.
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November 2, 2020
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present its third collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist Analia Saban featuring six new etchings. Saban's previous works at Gemini have explored the physical processes of printmaking, investigating materials and reimagining new ways to make a print. In this latest series, Saban delves into more conceptual ideas, considering the steps involved in creating and presenting an edition. The resulting works call attention to these norms in a thoughtful and refreshing way.
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August 10, 2020
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce a new edition by Toba Khedoori:
Untitled (branches), 2020, 3 color lithograph, edition of 32, 35 3/8 x 45 in.
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August 3, 2020
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present an exhibition celebrating 30 years of collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist John Baldessari, who created over 90 editions with Gemini G.E.L. This exhibition pays tribute to our beloved friend and artist. The show features highlights from every Baldessari series published by Gemini, from the early 1990s series A French Horn Player, A Square Blue Moon, and Other Subjects, to the EMOJI series published in 2018.
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June 17, 2020
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present at Art Basel 2020 Online a selection of recently completed projects by Julie Mehretu and Richard Serra, as well as past editions by artists that represent the history of Gemini G.E.L. Featured artists include John Baldessari, Sam Francis, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Analia Saban, and others.
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September 30, 2019
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present a new series of limited edition prints by Richard Serra combining etching and Paintstik. Composites consists of twenty-two editions which the artist began to develop in 2017. Having a relationship to two series of drawings, titled Rambles (2015) and Composites (2016), these new works combine aquatint etching and Paintstik screenprinted onto handmade Japanese paper. A marked departure from the appearance of previous series, Composites are dynamic in their mottled surfaces and exploration of texture and saturation. With a rhythmic play of densities and depths, the surfaces are activated through the masterful application of varying printing techniques and materials.
As is standard in Serra’s works on paper, the Composites maintain his dedication to the monochrome. Although faithful to the artist’s use of all black pigment, these new works however offer subtle, unexpected color variations upon closer inspection. Indeed, the works require both a close look and a view from afar to fully capture every element of the composition. The color variations are achieved through the use of different etching inks, including black and graphite, resulting in an array of tones similar to camouflage. To further enliven the surface, Paintstik was applied through a screen in one or more layers, thus giving more depth to the texture. The handmade paper was then either torn to leave a clean edge, or left with the undulating deckle exposed to lighten the solidity and strength of the heavy surface. The resulting series is comprised of twenty-two remarkably nuanced editions, each offering a unique exploration of Serra’s artistic practices.
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September 9, 2019
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce that the photographic archive of Sidney B. Felsen has been acquired by the Getty through the generosity of a gift made by Jack Shear.
Felsen’s photographs are personal yet their subjects are artworld personalities, ones that historians will be studying for decades to come. The majority of the over 70,000 photographs will enter the Getty Research Institute, while a smaller selection will become part of the Getty Museum’s photography collection. As a co-founder of the legendary artists’ workshop and publisher, Gemini G.E.L., Felsen and his camera have been present during quiet yet historic moments as artists changed the global landscape of art during the latter half of the 20th century. Felsen’s photographs capture both private acts of creativity and more public moments of relaxation, a family album created with the eye of someone whom the artists have loved, respected and, most importantly, trusted for over a half-century.
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July 30, 2019
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present our summer exhibition, Robert Rauschenberg at Gemini G.E.L.: Selected Works 1969-2000. Featured in the show are three lithographs from the Stoned Moon series, as well as a range of prints, sculptures, and unique multiples from several series. The exhibition is on view now and runs through September 13th.
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May 28, 2019
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our participation in the annual Art Basel fair in Basel, Switzerland. Featuring new and recent publications by Daniel Buren, Julie Mehretu, and Richard Serra, as well as featured past publications by John Baldessari, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, and Franz West.
Please visit us at Hall 2.0, Booth E5.
Booth tel. +41.61.699.5214
Los Angeles tel. +1.323.651.0513
Artbasel@geminigel.com
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March 29, 2019
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present a new edition by Richard Tuttle, Yellow Circle. A limited edition of seven, Yellow Circle has the appearance of a utilitarian table with hand-made ceramic tiles and a vapor-coated polished steel base.
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February 14, 2019
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present a group show highlighting our deep connection with Los Angeles artists and the city’s rich culture, Local: Gemini G.E.L. Collaborations with Los Angeles Artists, on view from February 11th.
Please join us for an Open House on Saturday, February 16th from 11 am to 5:30 pm. The Open House will offer a unique opportunity to get a behind the scenes look at Gemini's printmaking facilities. All the doors--those of the galleries and the print shops--will be open and our Master Printers will be working on upcoming editions.
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December 3, 2018
GEMINI G.E.L. - ART BASEL MIami beach 2018
BOOTH B8
December 6 - 9, 2018
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our participation in Art Basel Miami Beach for the 2018 year. Featuring new and recent editions by John Baldessari, Richard Serra and Richard Tuttle alongside a selection of editions by Vija Celmins, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, and Analia Saban.
Please visit us at Booth B8.
Booth Telephone: +1.786.276.4855
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November 7, 2018
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present a series of new multi-colored screenprints by John Baldessari. Emoji Series will be on view beginning November 7, 2018.
Please join us for a reception Saturday, November 17, 6 - 8 pm.
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June 4, 2018
GEMINI G.E.L. - ART BASEL 2018
HALL 2.0 | BOOTH E5
June 12-17, 2018
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our participation in the annual Basel art fair in Basel, Switzerland. Click here for a checklist of works that will be on view.
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March 26, 2018
Richard Serra
j. Paul getty MEdal
J. Paul Getty Trust Announced today that Richard Serra has been awarded a J. Paul Getty Medal for his contribution to the practice, understanding, and support of the arts. “His monumental works have not only transformed the landscapes in which they are placed,” said James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which established the award in 2013, "they also transform our ideas about sculpture itself." The award will be presented to Serra and fellow 2018 winners Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Agnes Gund, who is president emerita of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, at a dinner at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on September 24.
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March 22, 2018
Claes Oldenburg at Gemini Gel
Selected Works
Gemini G.EL. is pleased to present an exhibition of selected lithographs, screenprints, and sculptural editions
dating as early as 1968 by Claes Oldenburg on view in both the main and Frank Gehry building galleries. Also
on view is the short film “Sort of a Commercial for an Icebag,” created by the artist and Gemini G.E.L. in 1969,
and which documents the conception and installation of Oldenburg’s giant Icebag sculpture.Please join us for the exhibition reception Saturday, April 7, 4 - 7 pm.
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March 14, 2018
National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, & the Royal Academy of Arts
Tacita Dean: LANDSCAPE
Tacita Dean: STILL LIFE
Tacita Dean: PORTRAITIn an unprecedented collaboration between three major London galleries, Tacita Dean's three distinct solo exhibitions explore genres traditionally associated with painting – landscape at the Royal Academy of Arts, portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery and still life at the National Gallery – seen through the contemporary prism of Dean’s wide-ranging artistic practice.
Interview with artist and Tim Adams | The Guardian
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February 18, 2018
Blanton Museum of Art
Form into Spirit: Ellsworth Kelly’s ‘Austin’
February 18, 2018 - April 29, 2018
Now part of the Blanton's permanent collection, Ellsworth Kelly's Austin is the artist's last monumental work and only free-standing building. In honor of its unveiling, the exhibition Form Into Spirit "explores how Austin’s conceptual origins began in the seminal period Kelly spent in France (1948—54), when he immersed himself in the country’s artistic traditions and monuments." The show includes rarely seen early paintings and drawings and four expansive sections that elucidate Kelly’s rich explorations of Austin’s four main motifs: Spectrum, Black and White, Color Grid, and Totem.
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February 10, 2018
THE BROAD
Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth
February 10, 2018 - May 13, 2018
"A landmark exhibition, Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth’ features more than 120 extraordinary paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by one of America's greatest artist. Featuring signature works from the Broad collection with loans from more than 50 international public and private collections, The Broad's presentation marks the first comprehensive survey of Jasper Johns in Southern California in more than 50 years. A collaboration with the Royal Academy in London, Jasper Johns: 'Something Resembling Truth' traces the evolution of the artist’s six-decade career through a series of thematic chapters, encompassing the full range of Johns’ materials, motifs and techniques." - The Broad
New York Times review | Los Angeles Times review
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November 27, 2017
GEMINI G.E.L. - ART BASEL Miami beach 2017
BOOTH E15
December 7-10, 2017
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our participation in the annual Art Basel Miami Beach fair in Miami, Florida. Click here for a checklist of our works on view.
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October 18, 2017
NEW WORK BY Analia Saban
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce its second collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist Analia Saban. Where We Start From will feature four different and inventive series utilizing a wide range of techniques. From etching and embossing, to linen wall reliefs filled with paint, Saban’s work disrupts standard printmaking practices and in the process rejuvenates a medium long steeped in technical traditions.
Please join us for the opening reception Saturday, November 18, 4 - 7 pm.
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September 6, 2017
NEW WORK BY John Baldessari
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present Hands & Feet, a series of eight new screenprints by John Baldessari. The exhibition will be on view beginning September 23.
Please join us for a reception for the artist Saturday, September 23, 4 - 7 pm.
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September 5, 2017
Robert Rauschenberg - Horsefeathers THirteen
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present an exhibition of selected works from Robert Rauschenberg's Horsefeathers Thirteen series. On view in the upstairs gallery, Frank Gehry building beginning September 23.
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August 2, 2017
Announcing a new series
Ann Hamilton - Pages, 2017
Pages, a series of cloth and word collages on book endpapers, was developed in the summer of 2017 during Ann Hamilton’s residency at the American Academy in Rome. These twenty newly-released unique works make relationships between fragments of silk, wool and cotton – cloth the artist was given while in Rome or acquired during multiple visits to Los Angeles – with words and sentence fragments culled from material retained from her 2009 project at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, human carriage. “Book weights,” conceived for the Guggenheim installation, aggregated cross-sections of multiple books, and the loose lines-remnants of that project became the basis for the found text in these collages. Hamilton originally intended to use fine art paper as the basis for Pages, but found it too precious, so the collages were ultimately created on endpapers from a shelf of second-hand books left by former residents at the American Academy.
Pages will be exhibited for the first time at Gemini G.E.L. as part of Ann Hamilton - New Work. Please join us for a reception for the artist on Saturday, August 5 from 5-8 pm.
For a full list of available works, click here.
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July 10, 2017
NEW WORK BY Ann hamilton
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Ann Hamilton. Featuring a series of screenprints alongside blind emboss etchings and a series of unique cloth and word collages on book endpapers. The exhibition is on view now through September 19.
Please join us for a reception for the artist Saturday, August 5, 5 - 8 pm.
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July 1, 2017
Fort Mason Center for arts & Culture
Sophie Calle: Missing
June 29, 2017 - August 20, 2017
"Conceived as a journey, Missing gathers four of Sophie Calle’s major projects – itinerant since their creation – into a site-responsive presentation across the historic and scenic Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture's campus on the San Francisco waterfront. The corpus offers an overview of Calle’s art since the 1980s, and includes her iconic projects spanning the last decade: Take Care of Yourself, Rachel Monique and Voir la mer." On view through August 20!
New York Times feature
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June 16, 2017
NEW Work by Richard Tuttle
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present Blossom, a new edition by Richard Tuttle. Featuring broad black brushwork that spins out from a central point, the piece is counterbalanced with a smooth oscillation of minimal lines, evocative of natural growth patterns common throughout the plant kingdom. Each impression has a unique mark placed by the artist on the top of the burnt sienna middle form. The culmination of observed and imagine plants, Blossom is a poetic abstraction of nature.
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May 30, 2017
GEMINI G.E.L. - BASEL 2017
HALL 2.0 | BOOTH E5
June 15-18, 2017
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our participation in the annual Basel art fair in Basel, Switzerland. Click here for a checklist of works that will be on view.
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April 26, 2017
NEW WORK BY Richard Serra
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present new work by Richard Serra. Horizontal Reversals, a series of ten new Paintstik editions is on view now through June 30.
click here for press release
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March 28, 2017
GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ACQUIRES FRANK GEHRY ARCHIVE FROM 1954 TO 1988
The Getty Research Institute announced today the acquisition of a major archive of the world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. The Frank Gehry Papers cover more than thirty years of his singular career and includes comprehensive material on some of his best-known projects. In an email to the LA Times, Gehry wrote, "It's hard to look at your work and to try to dictate what people will take away from it...for me these models and drawings represent a lot of work; a lot of trial and error; and a lot of my heart and soul, I guess my hope is for people to find some inspiration in all these efforts."
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March 9, 2017
Art in print Review
Tacita Dean & Analia Saban
Check out the latest issue of Art in Print for reviews of Tacita Dean and Analia Saban's new editions!
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February 28, 2017
Julie Mehretu
American Academy of arts and letters
Congratulations to Julie Mehretu on being one of the fourteen newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for 2017! Founded in 1898 as an honor society for the country's leading artists, architects, composers and writers, the Academy seeks to “foster and sustain an interest in Literature, Music, and the Fine Arts." Founding members include William Merritt Chase, Kenyon Cox, Daniel Chester French, Childe Hassam, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Vedder, and Woodrow Wilson.
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February 17, 2017
UNiversity of Texas, Austin College of Fine arts
Ann Hamilton - O N E E V E R Y O N E
Now on view through February 24 - Ann Hamilton's O N E E V E R Y O N E, a public art project commissioned by Landmarks for the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts. "Its primary expression is a series of community portraits in which touch—something we feel more than we see—becomes visible. In the images we sense the glance of cloth’s fall, the weight of a hand, the press of a face, the possibility of recognition. More than 500 volunteers at 12 community sites were photographed through semi-transparent membrane that registered in focus only what immediately touched its surface, while rendering more softly the gesture or outline of the body." via the Landmarks press release.
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February 1, 2017
NEW Work by Frank Gehry
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present new work by Frank Gehry. The exhibition, on view February 1, features five new one color etchings.
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January 13, 2017
Sophie CAlle
Recipient of the 2017 Infinity Award for art
International Center of Photography
We are thrilled to announce that Gemini artist Sophie Calle is among the 2017 recipients of the 33rd annual Infinity Awards, presented by the International Center of Photography. Widely considered the leading honor for excellence in the field, the awards recognize distinguished honorees for their major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing. Congratulations Sophie!
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December 26, 2016
This is the last week to see The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on view until January 2, 2017!! Robert Rauschenberg's Booster, which was the largest hand-pulled print to date in 1967, displayed with the 7 studies is just one of the fifteen astounding, groundbreaking print series included in this not-to-be-missed exhibition.
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November 16, 2016
GEMINI G.E.L. - ART BASEL Miami beach 2016
HALL C | BOOTH a08
December 1-4, 2016
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our participation in the annual Art Basel Miami Beach fair in Miami, Florida. Click here for a checklist of our works on view.
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October 27, 2016
Los angeles county museum of art
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts By Artists
October 30, 2016 - April 2, 2017
"Since LACMA’s establishment, living artists have played an instrumental role in understanding the museum’s encyclopedic collection through a contemporary lens. L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists features a selection of works given to the museum for its 50th anniversary" - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The title for the show - L.A. Exuberance - is taken from Tacita Dean's series of fifteen hand-drawn lithographs, printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.! The exhibition is on view October 30 - April 2, 2017 and also includes gifts from John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Frank Gehry, Ed Ruscha, Analia Saban, and Allen Ruppersburg!
click here for press release
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October 10, 2016
NEW Work by Analia Saban
Mechanical Drawings (One-Continuous Line), Broken Vases, and Fingerprint
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present our first exhibition with Analia Saban. Analia Saban is Broken will be on view from October 22 through December 22, and features three different series—one in etching, in addition to two unique approaches to monotyping. For her presentation at Gemini, the artist has curated the exhibition using multiple copies of the same print. Her selection not only calls into question the traditions of print display, but also emphasizes the inherent nature of repetition within the art of printmaking.
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October 10, 2016
L.A. Times Review
Tacita Dean - LA Exuberance
"Tacita Dean has installed her exquisite new suite of 15 hand-drawn, three-color lithographs of wispy white clouds floating in bright blue skies high on the wall in the front room at the print studio Gemini G.E.L. No doubt the reason for the unusual hanging is to orient your view ever-so-slightly upward. You crane you neck while looking at clouds and condensation trails, the better to day-dream."
There's still one week to see LA Exuberance - read Christopher Knight's full review of the exhibition here.
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October 7, 2016
LACMA Symposium: Series and seriality in prints
October 5, 2016 | 1 pm
LACMA | Brown Auditorium
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., Series and Seriality in Prints will explore the centrality of series in the history of prints as well as the varied approaches to serial production adopted by Rembrandt, Picasso, and artists working at Gemini G.E.L. Starting at 1 pm in the Brown Auditorium, Free and open to the public.
Speakers will include Naoko Takahatake, Associate Curator, LACMA, Emily Beeny, Associate Curator, Norton Simon Museum, and Adam Greenhalgh, Associate Curator, National Gallery of Art
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October 7, 2016
The SKirball Cultural Center
Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A.
October 7th, 2016
The Skirball Cultural Center's exhibition Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A. opens this Friday, October 7. The display includes more than 70 of Roy Lichtenstein’s works over four decades, and features many multiples done by Lichtenstein at Gemini G.E.L. Also on display, a three-dimensional, life-sized re-creation of Lichtenstein’s 1992 “Bedroom at Arles." On view through March 12, 2017!
click here for the LA Times Review
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October 4, 2016
Frieze Masters
Issue 5 | 2016
For the most recent issue of Frieze Masters which focuses on "looking at art from the past through the lens of the present," writer Evan Moffitt interviewed co-founder Sidney Felsen on the evolution of Gemini G.E.L. Read the full length piece here.
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September 16, 2016
Gemini G.E.L. on KCRW's Art and Design program
September 13, 2016
Episode "Utopia and Arcosanti, Gemini G.E.L. and Mixografia" explores the behind the scenes aspect of collaborative printmaking. Produced by Avishay Artsy. Listen to it here!
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September 13, 2016
LACMA Panel discussion - UNSUNG HEROES: MASTER PRINTERS OF GEMINI G.E.L.
September 12, 2016 | 7 pm.
In conjuction with the exhibition The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., Gemini printers past and present - Jim Webb, Ron McPherson, Tony Zepeda, Richard Kaz, Xavier Fumat, Case Hudson (with a video interview from Jim Reid) - discussed their experiences working with artists such as Jasper Johns, Josef Albers, Jonathan Borofsky, Michael Heizer, John Baldessari, Richard Serra, Susan Rothenberg, Julie Mehretu and Roy Lichtenstein in a panel discussion moderated by LACMA curator Leslie Jones and Gemini co-founder Sidney Felsen. Thanks to everyone who came out to support these "Unsung Heroes!"
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September 11, 2016
LACMA's The serial impulse at Gemini G.e.l. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
September 11th, 2016
The highly anticipated exhibition The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L. is now on view and open to the public at the Los Angeles County Musuem of Art in the Resnick Pavilion! LACMA premiered Gemini’s very first edition—a series of prints by Josef Albers—and has since collected and exhibited their editions. On the occasion of Gemini’s 50th anniversary, The Serial Impulse showcases 15 print series, from seminal works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella to more recent series by Richard Serra and Julie Mehretu. - Press Release, LACMA
On view through Janurary 2nd, 2017.
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August 30, 2016
NEW TACITA DEAN Lithographs
Tacita Dean | LA Exuberance, 2016
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present our first exhibition with Tacita Dean. LA Exuberance will be on view from September 6th through October 14th, and will feature fifteen hand-drawn three-color blend lithographs printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.
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August 16, 2016
Gemini g.e.l. at 50: Los angeles times feature
August 6th, 2016
Front and center! Sunday's issue of the Los Angeles Times featured Gemini G.E.L. as we mark our 50th anniversary with an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of art. Check out the online version of the wonderful article by Deborah Vankin with a bonus behind-the-scenes video (links below) if you missed it in print!
The Serial Impulse will open September 11th at the Resnick Pavilion.
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August 6, 2016
Robert Rauschenberg loved soaps, Gregory Peck loved Rauschenberg: Sidney Felsen recalls
Co founder Sidney B. Felsen recalls what it was like to work with some of the legendary artists who have walked through the door at Melrose Avenue in this article by the Los Angeles Times.
"On working with Robert Rauschenberg: 'The way he loved to work was: He’d have the TV on with soaps, then he’d want you and you and me just to hang around and talk to him while he was working. He’d just talk to you about whatever, but his mind was working on what he was doing and he was making his pieces.'"
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August 6, 2016
An L.A. art star turns 50: Gemini G.E.L. celebrates with a LACMA exhibition
"In an age of online art appropriation and digital printing, Gemini is a respite of slow art, producing purposefully small, handmade editions sold to collectors, galleries and museums internationally. To date it has produced more than 2,000 works on paper and 300 sculptural editions,"
Read the Los Angeles Times feature on Gemini G.E.L. in preparation for the upcoming show at LACMA, and be sure to watch the video for a behind-the-scene look at one of Gemini's workshops!
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July 22, 2016
Gemini GEL: 50 Years and Counting
podcast by Donna Granata, featured by Ampersandla.
Listen to the voices of Gemini G.E.L. alongside the sounds of the workshop in this wonderful podcast by Donna Granata.
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July 13, 2016
39 major works produced at Gemini G.E.L. Gifted to LACMA
"An easy decision" says Gemini co-founder Sidney Felsen.
“Over the past 50 years, LACMA and Gemini G.E.L. have shared major milestones. When LACMA decided to present ‘The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.,’ they elected to use the strength of their vast collection of Gemini publications and substitute different series [from what showed at the National Gallery of Art] by certain artists: Josef Albers, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha and Richard Serra. In instances where LACMA only owned part of a certain series (as with John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha), Gemini was happy to contribute the works that were needed to complete them.”
"The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L." opens at LACMA on September 11th. Click here to download LACMA's press release.
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July 2, 2016
We are deeply saddened by loss of Gemini G.E.L. co-founder, Elyse Grinstein. Architect, mother, grandmother, patron of the arts, "she was a true humanist who was always exploring new ideas in her work and giving other artists a safe harbor to do the same in theirs," Frank Gehry remarked. Our thoughts, love, and prayers go out to Grinstein family.
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image: Gemini founders joined by the artists at the National Gallery of Art's exhibition, Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration - November 1984
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June 3, 2016
GEMINI G.E.L. AT ART BASEL | BASEL 2016
HALL 2.0 | BOOTH E5
June 16-19, 2016
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our participation in the annual Art Basel fair in Basel, Switzerland. Visit us at Booth E5, Hall 2.0. Featuring new and upcoming editions by John Baldessari, Tacita Dean, Ed Ruscha, Analia Saban, and Richard Serra.
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June 2, 2016
We're featured in this week's issue of the Los Angeles Business Journal! Pictured on the inside cover is curator Courtney Azzara working on a large Richard Serra print. Pick up a copy to check out the spread or subscribe for a digital version at www.labusinessjournal.com!
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May 25, 2016
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our first collaboration with artist ANALIA SABAN!
Los Angeles artist Analia Saban’s dynamic and compelling investigation of materials tests the limits of painting, sculpture, and printmaking in new and enterprising ways. Since mid-2015, Saban has been working at Gemini G.E.L. making etchings and monotypes. One body of work takes domestic machines as its inspiration, deconstructing and examining the various internal parts. Another series digs into the process of printmaking by challenging the physical properties of ink on paper, exploring the boundaries between the handmade and the machine-made.
Born in Argentina and living in Los Angeles, Saban is currently an Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute. In addition to her first exhibition at Gemini G.E.L. this fall, Saban’s work will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Texas. Other recent exhibitions include Prospect.3 New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans and An Appetite for Painting, National Museum of Norway, Oslo. Recipient of the Norton Museum’s 2012 "Rudin Prize For Emerging Photographers,” Saban also participated in the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA group exhibition in 2012. Her work is in the collections of the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College; the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida; Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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May 24, 2016
John Baldessari
HONOREE, IPCNY 2016 Benefit
May 25th, 2016 - New York City
The International Print Center of New York's 10th Annual Spring Benefit this year will honor artist John Baldessari, alongside publisher Brooke Alexander and Anne Coffin, founding director of IPCNY. Located in Chelsea, IPCNY was established in September 2000 as the first and only non-profit institution devoted solely to the exhibition and understanding of fine art prints. Congratulations John!
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May 16, 2016
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our first collaboration with British artist Tacita Dean!
Mark your calendars: the series of lithographs which Dean has been developing at Gemini G.E.L., titled LA Exuberance, will be exhibited in September 2016 at Gemini and at the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City in November 2016.
From October 2014 through June 2015, Dean was the Getty Research Institute Artist in Residence, which brought her to Los Angeles and helped advance her relationship with Gemini. Highly regarded, Dean has been the recipient of several prizes including the Hugo Boss Prize (2006) and the Kurt Schwitters Prize (2009). She participated in the Venice Biennale (2003, 2005 and 2013) and dOCUMENTA 13 (2012). Recent solo exhibitions include Fundación Botín, Santander (2013); Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro (2013); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2012); MUMOK, Vienna (2011); and Tate Modern Turbine Hall (2011).
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May 14, 2016
ED RUSCHA
HONOREE, MOCA 2016 GALA
May 14th, 2016 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Renowned artist Ed Ruscha was honored tonight at this year's star-studded MOCA Gala, co-chaired by Trustees Lilly Tartikoff Karatz and Maurice Marciano. The art-world came out in full force to celebrate the Los Angeles-based artist whose work spans all media from photography to drawing. Gemini G.E.L. is proud to have had the privilege of collaborating with Ruscha on numerous printed editions over the last four decades. Congratulations Ed! 
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April 26, 2016
Julie Mehretu
honored with the skowhegAn medal of painting
April 26th, 2016 - New York City
In conjunction with the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture's 70th Anniversary Celebration, Mehretu has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 Medal of Painting. Skowhegan notes: "Celebrated internationally for large-scale, gestural paintings, the Ethiopian-born artist addresses both the formal concerns of color and line and the social concerns of power, history, globalism, and personal narrative. A MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Mehretu is an advocate for LGBT rights, Ethiopian culture and films, and a founding member of Denniston Hill, an artist residency in the southern Catskills." Congratulations Julie!
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April 18, 2016
Frank Gehry
RECIPIENT OF the the 2016 Leonore and Walter Annenberg Award for Diplomacy through the Arts
The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE)
The legendary Los Angeles architect will receive the award Monday, April 18th in Washington D.C. at FAPE's 30th anniversary Annual Event, hosted by Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department’s Diplomatic Reception Rooms. Says Gehry, "It is a great honor to receive the 2016 Annenberg award from FAPE, an organization that believes that art and design can foster a deeper appreciation of all cultures. This is a principle that is central to my work as well, so it is wonderful to be to be included in FAPE’s legacy of cultural diplomacy through art. Art and architecture work in concert, and are vital to sparking creativity, enhancing understanding, and creating a dialogue.”
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February 16, 2016
Larry belL
A big congratulations to Larry Bell, who recieved the 2016 Lifetime Acheivement Award this past weekend at the Palm Springs Art Fair.
Larry Bell, 76, is a pioneering American artist and sculptor, associated with the now famous LA 1960s “Cool School” of art. He lives and works in Taos, NM, and has a studio in Venice, CA. He is a grant recipient from, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His artworks are found in the collections of many major cultural institutions, and his work has been shown at museums and in public spaces in the US and abroad over the course of his 40-year career.
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January 29, 2016
The Serial Impulse
There's still time to see The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. until Feburary 7, 2016.
The exhibition showcases 17 series created at Gemini by 17 artists over the past five decades. It includes seminal early works by artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella as well as more recent serial projects by John Baldessari, Julie Mehretu, Richard Serra, and others.
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January 27, 2016
We are pleased to announce the newly designed Gemini G.E.L. website! After months of development and a site that has been live for many weeks, it is finally ready for an official unveiling. The site is tailored to the needs of the user with large, quality images of available works and exhibitions. Prominently featured are photographs of the artists at work culled from the archive of Gemini co-founder Sidney Felsen, as well as access to our 50 year history and the National Gallery Catalogue Raisonné.
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December 2, 2015
GEMINI G.E.L. - ART BASEL Miami beach 2015
HALL C | BOOTH a08
December 3-6, 2015
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our participation in the annual Art Basel Miami Beach fair in Miami, Florida. Click here for a checklist of our works on view.
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October 13, 2015
Talking Shop with Sidney Felsen
50 Years of Artists at Gemini G.E.L.
October 1, 2015. Video (47:34 Minutes Duration)
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present the linked video of Gemini cofounder and codirector Sidney Felsen in conversation with Lauren Schell Dickens, curatorial consultant, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art.
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October 13, 2015
The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
October 4, 2015 - February 6, 2016 | West Building
We are pleased to announce the National Gallery's upcoming exhibition The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.. Coinsiding with Gemini's 50th anniversary, this exhibition will showcase 17 innovative and exemplary serial projects (127 individual works) created by the following artists at Gemini G.E.L.: John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Michael Heizer, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Julie Mehretu, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Ken Price, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, and Frank Stella. All works in the exhibition are drawn from the Gemini G.E.L. Archive at the National Gallery of Art, which contains an example of nearly every edition published by Gemini.
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September 14, 2015
Frank Gehry
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
September 13, 2015- March 20, 2016
We are honored to have included in LACMA's Frank Gehry exhibition his Untitled fiberglass sculpture, published in collaboration with Gemini in 2001.
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September 10, 2015
John Baldessari and Ann Hamilton
Recipients of the 2014 National Medal of Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
We are thrilled to announce that Gemini artists John Baldessari and Ann Hamilton are among the 2014 recipients of the National Medal of Arts Awards, presented by President Obama on Thursday, September 10, 2015. It is such a priviledge to work with these two brilliant artists. Congratulations John and Ann!
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May 29, 2015
Gemini G.e.l. AT Art Basel | Basel 2015
HALL 2.0 | BOOTH E5
June 16-21, 2015
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our participation in the annual Art | Basel fair in Basel, Switzerland. Please click the link below for a list of our works on view.
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April 6, 2015
Richard Serra Prints Translate the Artist's Iconic Sculptures to Paper
Artsy Editorial | Artsy
Check out a soulful editorial from Artsy on Richard Serra's newest collaboration with Gemini G.E.L.
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February 12, 2015
Gemini g.e.l at palm springs fine art fair 2015
Palm springs convention center | booth 404
February 12-15, 2015
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December 2, 2014
"The News" Travels Fast: Baldessari's Twist on the Morning Paper Hightails to Art Basel in Miami Beach
Artsy Editorial | Artsy
Check out Bridget Gleeson's editorial for Artsy on John Baldessari's newest collaboration with Gemini G.E.L.
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September 19, 2014
Julie Mehretu | Half a Shadow
Carlier-Gebauer, Berlin
September 20 - November 1, 2014
Gemini G.E.L. is honored to have our new edition by Julie Mehretu Myriads: Only By Dark, featured in Carlier-Gebauer's fall exhibition, Half a Shadow.
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June 28, 2014
Richard Tuttle | A Print Retrospective
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine
June 28, 2014- October 19, 2014
Gemini G.E.L. is thrilled to have several works included in Bowdoin College's Richard Tuttle Print Retrospective.
Please follow the link below for more information on this comprehensive exploration of Tuttle's printmaking practice.
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June 20, 2014
We are very honored by Artnet's selection of Gemini G.E.L. as one of Art Basel's 25 best booths!
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June 16, 2014
Art | 45 | Basel
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to announce our participation in Art | 45 | Basel Thursday, June 19 through Sunday, June 22.This year the Edition Sector will be showcased on the ground floor. We look forward to seeing you in our new location...
Hall 2.0, Booth Q5
+ 41 61 699 52 14
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April 19, 2014
Allen Ruppersberg Film Screening
In conjunction with his recent publication at Gemini G.E.L., we are pleased to present a short film of Allen Ruppersberg playing his monumental work, Great Speckled Bird, through a vintage player piano.
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April 10, 2014
richard serra in qatar
AlriWAQ DOHA EXHIBITION SPACE, QATAR
QM BUILDING 10, KATARA
April 10- July 6, 2014
These concurrent exhibitions showcase Serra's monumental site-specific sculptures along with an ambitious survey of sculptures and drawings.
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January 31, 2014
New Terry Winters Lithographs
Terry Winters | Clocks and Clouds, 2013
Six New Lithographs on view January 31- March 7 2014
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April 18, 2013
RICHARD SERRA at GEMINI G.E.L.
The Gemini team enjoyed an exciting week with Richard Serra in town for the opening of his new drawings at Gagosian Gallery. He spent a lot of time at Gemini signing prints and starting new ones. Here is a photo re-cap of his visit.
(with Sidney B. Felsen, master printer Xavier Fumat, printer Isaac Osher, printer Garrett Metz)
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March 16, 2013
Rauchenberg at Gemini
The Palm Springs Art Museum | Palm Springs, California
March 16 - July 28, 2013
The exhibition's opening panel discussion featured exhibition curator Jay Belloli, Gemini G.E.L. Co-founder and Co-director Sidney B. Felsen and Gemini Master Printer James Reid. Please click below to watch the discussion.
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January 21, 2013
JOEL SHAPIRO | UP DOWN AROUND
Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present Joel Shapiro: Up Down Around, on view through February 22, 2013.
Following his first collaboration with Gemini in 2009, the artist has created a series of five colorful prints that move between figuration and abstraction.
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December 7, 2012
Gemini G.E.L. congratulates Ann Hamilton
the event of a thread at the Park Avenue Armory (New York) has received wonderful praise. Please read the New York Times' review of the installation here.
Click through to view a video interview about the installation.
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September 13, 2012
The quiet before the storm. The Artists for Obama reception starts in 28 minutes.
THURSDAY, September 13
7:00 – 10:00 pm
