New Editions at Art Basel 2013
June 13 - 16, 2013

From June 13 through 16, visit the Gemini G.E.L. booth at Art Basel.  The fair, now in its forty-fourth year,  takes place in the Swiss city located on the banks of the Rhine, at the border between Switzerland, France and Germany. Introduced in the Gemini booth (Hall 2.1/Booth Q15) will be new editions by Ellsworth Kelly, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, Richard Tuttle, as well as Gemini G.E.L.’s first-ever collaboration with artist Terry Winters.


Preview images will be viewable online beginning June 11.


More details about the fair can be found at:
https://www.artbasel.com/en/Basel

New Editions at Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
December 6 - 9, 2012

Visit Gemini G.E.L. at Art Basel Miami Beach from December 6-9, 2012 in Hall C, Booth B20.  In addition to several new and recent editions on view by John Baldessari, Ann Hamilton, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra, and Richard Tuttle, Gemini will debut a new editioned sculpture by Frank Gehry.

More details about the fair can be found at: www.artbaselmiamibeach.com

IFPDA Print Fair 2012
November 1 - 4, 2012

The largest international art fair focused exclusively on the artistic medium of printmaking, the 2012 Print Fair featured 90 dealers (65 from North America and 25 from Europe), all members of the International Fine Print Dealers Association, the organizer of New York Fine Art Print Week. Despite a minor set-back due to Hurricane Sandy, the annual IFPDA Print Fair opened with a preview night on Thursday, November 1, and continued through Sunday, November 4.

In our booth, we featured new projects by John Baldessari, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Tuttle, and others.

For more information, please visit the IFPDA website at: http://www.printfair.com

Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl is pleased to participate in the 2012 Chelsea Print Crawl, a self-paced gallery walk offering art enthusiasts a perspective on the state of the art of 20th and 21st century printmaking and the key artists to watch. The schedule includes artist and gallery talks at various locations as well as a meet-up for participants at the final destination, the IPCNY/International Print Center New York. To participate, download an itinerary at www.ifpda.org.

At 3pm, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl is scheduled to give a gallery talk and Q&A session on lithography, intaglio, and screenprinting. We will also show prints by Richard Serra and Robert Rauschenberg alongside the plates, stones, and screens that were used to create them.

Print Crawl: 12 – 5 pm
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl Gallery Talk: 3 pm
Meet & Mingle at the IPCNY: 5 – 6 pm

New Editions at Art Basel 2012
June 14 - 17, 2012

Gemini G.E.L. will have a booth at Art Basel. Now in its forty-third year, the fair takes place in the Swiss city located on the banks of the Rhine, at the border between Switzerland, France and Germany. In the booth (Hall 2.1/Booth Q15), Gemini will introduce several new editions by John Baldessari, Jonathan Borofsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra, as well as Gemini G.E.L.’s first-ever collaboration with Austrian artist Franz West.

Click here for images.


More details about the fair can be found at: http://www.artbasel.com/go/id/ss/lang/eng/

New Location
February 16, 2012

Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl has relocated to Chelsea!

Please note: the gallery will be open by appointment only January 17 through February 15 while we relocate to 535 West 24th Street, 3rd Floor. Please call 212-249-3324 or email info@joniweyl.com for updated information.

New Editions at Art Basel Miami Beach 2011
December 1 - 4, 2011

Gemini G.E.L. will have a booth at Art Basel Miami Beach from December 1-4, 2011. In the booth (Hall C - Booth B20), Gemini will introduce several new editions by Frank Gehry, Ann Hamilton, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Richard Serra, and Richard Tuttle.

More details about the fair can be found at: www.artbaselmiamibeach.com

IFPDA Print Fair 2011
November 2 - 6, 2011

Unique among the world's major art fairs for its focus on fine prints from all periods. This year's Fair will feature 90 dealers, all members of the International Fine Print Dealers Association, the organizer of New York Fine Art Print Week. The annual IFPDA Print Fair opens with a preview night on Tuesday, November 2, and continues through Sunday, November 6.

In our booth, we will feature new projects by John Baldessari, Frank Gehry, James Rosenquist,Richard Serra, and Richard Tuttle.

For more information, please visit the IFPDA website at: http://www.printfair.com

Chelsea Art Walk
July 28, 2011

On July 28, 2011, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl will be participating in the second annual Chelsea Art Walk which will take place at over 125 galleries and art institutions, from 5 to 8 p.m. In addition to extended gallery hours at all of the locations, there will be special events such as talks by artists, curators, and gallery owners, live performances, book sales, book signings and receptions.

For more information, visit http://artwalkchelsea.com/.

New Editions at Art Basel 2011
June 15 - 19, 2011

Gemini G.E.L. will have a booth at Art Basel. Now in its forty-second year, the fair takes place in the Swiss city located on the banks of the Rhine, at the border between Switzerland, France and Germany. In the booth (Hall 2.1, Booth Q15), Gemini will introduce new editions by John Baldessari, James Rosenquist, Frank Gehry, and Richard Serra.

More details about the fair can be found at: http://www.artbasel.com/go/id/ss/lang/eng/

Fourth Annual Madison Avenue Gallery Walk
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Benefiting The Fund for Public Schools

On Saturday, May 7, more than 30 prestigious art and antique galleries on Madison Avenue between 57th and 86th Streets will host a series of Art Talks by curators and artists to benefit the arts education in NYC's public schools.

The event will benefit The Fund for Public Schools, a nonprofit organization Chaired by NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Vice Chaired by Caroline Kennedy and Mortimer Zuckerman.

The Gallery Walk will take place during normal gallery hours (10:00 AM to 6:00 PM) on Saturday, May 7, 2011. At 12:30pm and again at 3:30pm, Chris Santa Maria, Gallery Director at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, will be giving a special talk on the current exhibition New and Recent Publications.

For more information, visit www.madisonavenuegallerywalk.com

JONATHAN BOROFSKY
My Mother's Words and God is a Feeling
2011

In 2010, Gemini G.E.L. published two prints by Jonathan Borofsky, titled My Mother’s Words and God is a Feeling. Well-known to be the subject of his own works, Borofsky injects himself into these two through the selection of phrases that are very personal to the artist and by rendering the words in his own handwriting. For My Mother's Words, Borofsky, ever- interested in understanding his own pain and happiness, explains, "Several days before my mother died, I was sitting at her bedside - just talking about things. At one point, I casually asked her if she had any words she wanted to leave behind. Without taking any time to think about it, she answered 'Be Happy, Do the Best You Can, Be Good and Kind'." An edition of 45, this two-color screenprint has a softer quality than his earlier editioned works that utilize the same minimal, strictly text-based imagery such as Object of Magic (1989) and 31247** (1991). In the case of My Mother's Words, the cursive handwriting creates an intimacy with the artist, whereas the earlier works were executed in a blunt, sans-serif type that maintains an impersonal quality. God is a Feeling similarly employs text as imagery, though in a more painterly and gestural manner. Like his innovative work of the 1970s and ‘80s, this print continues his exploration of the philosophical and psychological values inherent in the human spirit. Spiritual well-being, wholeness, and contemplation of the nature of the universe have always been important themes in his work. A two-color lithograph, God is a Feeling is a small edition of 25.

Both prints are currently being exhibited in the gallery's current exhibition, New and Recent Publications, from April 21 until May 27, 2011.

JOHN BALDESSARI
Nose/Silhouette
2011

In the series of six colorful and dynamic prints, Nose/Silhouette (2010), John Baldessari continues his investigation of isolated body parts, much as he did in his previous Gemini G.E.L. series Noses & Ears, Etc. of 2006, and Foot and Stocking (With Big Toe Exposed) of 2010. In Foot and Stocking, the artist focused on the exposed big toe of his studio assistants' right feet. Now the artist shifts his attention back up to the face, particularly on the nose, in order to create the Nose/Silhouette series. For each print, Baldessari appropriates a color or black-and-white photograph as source material for the nose, which is then printed lithographically over a silk-screened, color-block silhouette of a face. While all six prints are similarly created, each image maintains a strong sense of individuality with their various bright and boldly-colored silhouettes and uniquely- shaped noses. An edition size of 50, these engaging, small scale prints (18 x 14 inches each) are terrifically representative of the type of imagery that John Baldessari has come to be known for throughout his career.

The entire series of six prints are currently being exhibited in the gallery's current exhibition, New and Recent Publications, from April 21 until May 27, 2011.

RICHARD SERRA
Junction #1-13
2011

Enjoying a collaboration that spans almost four decades, Richard Serra has been creating prints almost exclusively at the Los Angeles based artists' workshop Gemini G.E.L. In 2010, Serra completed a series of 13 etchings titled Junction, exploring what can loosely be described as an "x" shape. With edition sizes of 50, these small-scale prints (16 x 18 inches each) took a dramatic turn away from the large-scale and ink-heavy series Weights and Levels, published earlier in the same year. Junction is also a departure from his larger body of work, with his surprisingly playful and expressive spirit that is typically absent not only in his printmaking but in his drawing and sculptural works as well. Using molten Paintstik, Serra's signature medium of choice, he drew each of the thirteen images directly onto a mylar sheet. That image was then transferred onto an etching plate, which then delivered the rich, saturated and highly textured surface onto creamy, beige-colored paper.

All thirteen Junction prints as well as another new edition, Cycle, are currently being exhibited in the gallery's current exhibition, New and Recent Publications, from April 21 until May 27, 2011.

New Editions at Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
December 2 - 5, 2010

Gemini G.E.L. will have a booth at Art Basel Miami Beach from December 2-5, 2010. In the booth (Hall C - Booth A08), Gemini will introduce several new editions by John Baldessari, Ann Hamilton, Julie Mehretu, and Richard Serra.

More details about the fair can be found at: www.artbaselmiamibeach.com

Gemini G.E.L. co-founder Sidney B. Felsen
honored by International Fine Print Dealers Association
November 2, 2010

The IFPDA celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Cosmopolitan Club in New York on Tuesday evening, November 2nd, and also honored Sidney B. Felsen, Robert K. Newman and Clifford S. Ackley for their dedication and commitment to furthering the understanding and appreciation of prints among collectors and the general public.  The festive event included introductions from Gemini artist Ann Hamilton, Print Publisher Diane Villani and Curator Barbara Shapiro for the respective honorees.  In attendance as a tribute to Felsen were several Gemini artists including Hamilton, Julie Mehretu, James Rosenquist, Joel Shapiro and Richard Tuttle.  Also attending were Felsen’s wife, Joni Moisant Weyl, his daughter jewelry designer Suzanne Felsen, her husband Kevin Swanson, and Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Weyl gallery staff Chris Santa Maria, Jae-Min Hwang and Kalyn Olson. 

ANN HAMILTON
ciliary
November 2010

Ann Hamilton has created a new work titled ciliary (2010), a uniquely-formed assemblage.  Paper, lithographically printed with a seismic pattern of lines drawn by the artist, is folded and formed into a circle. From its center emerges a swirl of fabric.  The result is a work that has many visual associations -  a large circle-skirt, an Elizabethan neck collar, an eye.   Hamilton is producing a total of 19 of these works that will each vary in printed and fabric color combinations. 

Photo by Sidney B. Felsen (c) 2010

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JULIE MEHRETU
Auguries
October 2010

Internationally-acclaimed artist Julie Mehretu is known best for her large-scale gestural paintings built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pencil, ink, and thick streams of paint.  In her first-ever collaborative project with the Gemini workshop in Los Angeles, Mehretu has seamlessly translated her painterly language to print with Auguries, a 12-panel aquatint.  Spanning over 7 x 15 feet, Auguries presents a landscape of frenetic marks, thin colored lines, emphatic ink spatterings and cool gray washes that unite in a superbly stunning work of art.  Auguries made its debut at the Gallery Met, the visual art exhibition space at The Metropolitan Opera, as part of Mehretu’s solo exhibition Notations after the "Ring" on view from September 27th to January 29, 2011. 

Click here for Carol Vogel's New York Times article on Auguries.

JOHN BALDESSARI
Foot and Stocking (With Big Toe Exposed)
October 2010

John Baldessari is internationally acclaimed and acknowledged as an innovator of Conceptual Art. These dramatic, large-scale (50 x 33 inches) prints are a continuation of Baldessari’s exploration of isolated body parts, unconventional in the realm of fine art. Through careful manipulation of scale and perspective, Baldessari has created a delightful and intriguing presentation of an otherwise banal subject, and has titled each to correspond with his studio staff-member’s name, as if they were portraits. Much like his successful previous Noses & Ears series, Baldessari surprises with a juxtaposition of photography and bold sampling of color-blocking. With Foot and Stocking (With Big Toe Exposed), the viewer is equally seduced by the exposed toenail as by the larger ominous form that has been concealed.

The six bold and colorful prints recently published by the Los Angeles-based artists’ workshop, Gemini G.E.L. will be on view at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl from October 7th to November 6th. In addition, selections from this series will be presented November 3-7 at the IFPDA Print Fair. Furthermore, the New York debut of Baldessari's Foot and Stocking series will coincide with the opening of Pure Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first major U.S. exhibition in twenty years to survey over five decades of Baldessari's work.

On October 14, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl will host a reception for the artist from 6 to 8 pm. The artist will also be signing copies of the recently released catalogue raisonné The Prints of John Baldessari: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1971-2007 by Sharon Coplan Hurowitz (published by Hudson Hills Press). Please RSVP to info@joniweyl.com.

Click here to view the entire Foot and Stocking series.

Photo by Sidney B. Felsen (c) 2010

IFPDA Print Fair 2010
November 4 - 7, 2010

Now in its 20th year, the IFPDA Print Fair is unique among the world's major art fairs for its focus on fine prints from all periods. The annual IFPDA Print Fair opens with a preview night on Wednesday, November 3, and continues through Sunday, November 7.

In our booth, we will feature new projects by John Baldessari, Ann Hamilton, Richard Serra, and Gemini's first-ever collaboration with Julie Mehretu.

For more information, please visit the IFPDA website at: http://www.printfair.com

New Editions at Art Basel 2010
June 16 - 20, 2010

Gemini G.E.L. will have a booth at Art Basel 41 - located on the banks of the Rhine, at the border between Switzerland, France and Germany. In the booth (Hall 2.1, Booth Q12), Gemini will introduce new editions by John Baldessari, Frank Gehry, Ann Hamilton, Richard Serra, and Richard Tuttle.

More details about the fair can be found at: http://www.art.ch/go/id/ss/

Third Annual Madison Avenue Gallery Walk
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Benefiting The Fund for Public Schools

Please join us for the Third Annual Madison Avenue Gallery Walk – an event highlighting the art galleries located on Madison Avenue between East 57 and East 86 Streets. Enjoy free guided gallery tours, meet exhibiting artists and learn about current collections from curators and artists. You can also view artwork from the city's talented students, take part in a scavenger hunt, and more!

The event will benefit The Fund for Public Schools, a nonprofit organization Chaired by NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Vice Chaired by Caroline Kennedy and Mortimer Zuckerman. Funds raised through this event will benefit arts education programs in New York City's public schools, a component in the curriculum that is critically important for student success. The Gallery Walk will take place during normal gallery hours (10:00 AM to 6:00 PM) on Saturday, May 15, 2010.

For more information, visit www.madisonavenuegallerywalk.com

The Baltimore Print Fair 2010
March 27 - 28

This year, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl will have a booth at the Baltimore Fair for Contemporary Prints and New Editions.

Sponsored by the Baltimore Museum of Art's Print, Drawing and Photograph Society, the Baltimore Fair for Contemporary Prints & New Editions offers new and established collectors the opportunity to peruse prints in an intimate setting, talk personally with dealers, and learn more about contemporary artists and printmaking techniques.

Details about the fair can be found on the BMA's website at: http://www.artbma.org/calendar/events.html

Gemini G.E.L. co-founder Sidney B. Felsen to be honored at the Orange County Museum of Art

Newport Beach, CA— The Orange County Museum of Art’s Art of Dining, one of Orange County’s most prominent social evenings and the premier event celebrating creativity and artistic excellence, will take place May 8 th at The Island Hotel in Newport Beach. Each year, Art of Dining honors an individual of international acclaim who has made an important impact in the artworld and this year the museum recognizes Sidney B. Felsen, co-founder of Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited). Click here for full press release.

For more information, please visit the Orange County Museum's website at: http://www.ocma.net

New Editions at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009

Gemini G.E.L. will have a booth at Art Basel Miami Beach from December 3-6, 2009. In the booth (B-01), Gemini will introduce several new editions by Sophie Calle, Frank Gehry, Ann Hamilton, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, and Richard Tuttle.

More details about the fair can be found at: www.artbaselmiamibeach.com

IFPDA Print Fair 2009
November 5 - 8

The annual IFPDA Print Fair opens with an affordable preview night on Wednesday, November 4, and continues through Sunday, November 8. In our booth (A-11), we will introduce three new projects – first-ever Gemini collaborations with Sophie Calle, Joel Shapiro and Richard Tuttle.

Sophie Calle’s The Address Book is a revisitation of her engaging collection of stories, photographs and interviews published daily in August 1983 in the French newspaper Liberation. The series of nine screenprints by sculptor Joel Shapiro explore an elegant intersection between reductive geometric formalism and energetic figuration, and the eight Richard Tuttle etchings are exquisite examples of his subtle, intimate abstractions.

For more information, please visit the IFPDA website at: http://www.ifpda.org/printfair/

Gemini G.E.L. co-founder celebrates 85


Sidney Felsen, co-founder of Gemini G.E.L. and husband of Joni Weyl, turned 85 on September 3, 2009. Nearly 300 art world luminaries- including important collectors, dealers, museum directors and Gemini artists John Baldessari, William Crutchfield, Frank Gehry, Joe Goode, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg and Ed Ruscha- attended a joyous celebration in Los Angeles.

Learn more here.
Click here for George Christy article.

New Editions at Art Basel 2009
June 10-14, 2009

Gemini G.E.L. will have a booth at Art Basel 40 - located on the banks of the Rhine, at the border between Switzerland, France and Germany. In the booth (D2.1-L7), Gemini will introduce several new editions by Sophie Calle, Richard Serra and Joel Shapiro.

For additional information during fair hours: 41.61.699.5214

Click here for Basel 2009 checklist.
More details about the fair can be found at: www.artbasel.com

Second Annual Madison Avenue Gallery Walk
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Benefiting The Fund for Public Schools

Please join us for the Second Annual Madison Avenue Gallery Walk – an event highlighting the art galleries located on Madison Avenue between East 57 and East 86 Streets. The event will benefit The Fund for Public Schools, a nonprofit organization Chaired by NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Vice Chaired by Caroline Kennedy and Mortimer Zuckerman. Funds raised through this event will benefit arts education programs in New York City's public schools, a component in the curriculum that is critically important for student success. The Gallery Walk will take place during normal gallery hours (10:00 AM to 6:00 PM) on Saturday, May 16, 2009.

Click here for the Gallery Walk Program.
Click here for the Scavanger Hunt answer sheet.

New Editions at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008

Gemini G.E.L. will have a booth at Art Basel Miami Beach from December 3-7, 2008. In the booth (F-18), Gemini will introduce several new editions by Richard Artschwager, Jonathan Borofsky, Ann Hamilton, Ellsworth Kelly, Susan Rothenberg, and Richard Serra. More details about the fair can be found at: www.artbaselmiamibeach.com

Click here for the New Editions Brochure.

IFPDA Print Fair 2008

Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl is pleased to be exhibiting at the IFPDA 2008 Print Fair held at the Park Avenue Armory from October 28 - November 2, 2008. In our booth (B-13), we will introduce several new Gemini editions including two elegant black-and-white etchings by Richard Artschwager, a selection from Ann Hamilton's new prints and edition sculptures, a spectacular, nearly 11-foot four-color lithograph by Ellsworth Kelly, and a weighty, large scale etching by Richard Serra. More details about the Print Fair and Print Week can be found at http://ifpda2008printfair.com

Click here for the Fair checklist.

New and Recent Publications

ARTISTS FOR OBAMA
A portfolio of limited edition prints by 13 artists

Click here for additional information

FRANK GEHRY
New Lithographs
October 2007

Among the most innovative architects in history, Frank Gehry's buildings seem to defy the natural laws of physics. He makes solid materials appear fluid, and his buildings have been compared to dancers and sculpture. Gehry pays no attention to precedence or the "rules" in architecture that bind his colleagues and predecessors. Scarcely anywhere in his oeuvre is a traditional grid structure; pretending never to worry about whether or not a structure will stand, he designs without traditional restraints and finds a way to make his buildings sound.

For Gehry, drawing is inextricably linked with the germination of his ideas and design process. Unlike traditional, utilitarian architectural drawings, Gehry's fluid, lyrical lines simply convey a loose relationship of space and form.

Working with Gemini G.E.L., for whom he designed an early building in 1979, Gehry has recently completed eight new lithographs featuring his architectural sketches. Gemini provided Gehry with litho-friendly drawing materials so that he could sketch when ideas flowed. The resulting eight lithographs are intimate sketches of chairs, houses, the IAC Building in lower Manhattan, and the Guggenheim's new Abu Dhabi museum, that epitomize the spirit of what has defined him as an architect.

BRUCE NAUMAN
Infrared Outtakes and Soft Ground Etchings
September 2007

One of the most versatile and influential contemporary artists, Bruce Nauman moves effortlessly between sculpture, video, film, sound installation, drawing and printmaking. Since the 1960s, he has experimented with emerging technology, including video, holography, neon, infrared film, as well as a wide range of printmaking techniques. His two recent series published by the Los Angeles-based artists workshop, Gemini G.E.L., Soft Ground Etchings and Infrared Outtakes, find their source in early photographs taken on infrared film.

In 1968, Nauman approached photographer and friend, Jack Fulton, and asked him to document a session of him contorting his face with his hand using the then newly-developed process of holography. These photographs became the source images of Nauman's iconic series, Studies for Holograms (1970), published by Castelli Gallery. In preparation for the exhibition, A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, curator Constance M. Lewallen unearthed some of underexposed images captured 40 years ago in that photo session and Nauman worked with Fulton to breathe new life into them digitally. Nauman approached Gemini G.E.L., where he had been making prints since the early 70s, to publish the series Infrared Outtakes as part of the workshop's 40th Anniversary program. These four inkjet prints are Gemini's first series of digital photographs.

Inspired by these images and a return to the Gemini workshop, Nauman began his work on the series of six Soft Ground Etchings. Soft ground is an etching technique for drawing a softer, more textured line similar to charcoal, crayon and pencil. The soft ground process allows the artist to draw directly on paper offering a more familiar feel than drawing on a polished copper surface. For this reason, these prints rival the sensuality and fluidity of his drawing. Initially, he drew Neck Pull, Hands Only, and Cockeye Lips. He returned to the workshop armed with images from Studies for Holograms-(Pinched Lips, Pulled Cheeks and Squeezed Lips) to create 3 more editions for this series. Originally conceived to be black and white, as the project progressed Nauman decided that each image needed a colored background and an aquatint was applied to achieve the effect.

ED RUSCHA
Cityscapes
June 2007

It's difficult to talk about Ed Ruscha's work without mentioning the west coast. A seminal American artist, he is more specifically, a progeny of Los Angeles. He left his home-state of Oklahoma to attend Chouinard Art Institute (now Cal Arts) with the intention of becoming a commercial artist, and this has influenced his work ever since. An excellent draughtsman, he's always been drawn to clean compositions and has used text in his work since the 1950's.

Ruscha's new series of prints, entitled Cityscapes, are marvelous examples of this artist's wicked and rather dark, complex sense of humor. For each of the five lithographs, Ruscha has laid-down a neutral "texture" background, made via the photographic transfer of various fabrics. Redacted from these neutral backgrounds are crime notes, either imagined or actual, which are relocated to the bottom margin. The phrases are both menacing and amusing, such as "STICK UP - DON'T MOVE - SMILE" or "I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOUR TESTIMONY PUT ME IN HERE". The font is small and very plain; its format is slyly suggestive of an eye-chart, daring the recipient to read the message. These are Ruscha at his best - deftly manipulating a seemingly banal arrangement of imagery and text into an engaging end-result.

RICHARD SERRA
Paths and Edges
June 2007

At 67, Richard Serra is at the top of his game. With the permanent installation of 8 massive steel sculptures in Spain at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, numerous public and private commissions, and his wildly acclaimed mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, his chapter in the annals of art history is guaranteed. In addition to being a sculptor, Serra has been making prints at Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles for over thirty years. He returns to the workshop often to draw and to collaborate with Master Printer Xavier Fumat, leaving behind greasy remnants of Paintstik on every surface of the artist's studio and exciting new images.

Following his 2006 series, Between the Torus and the Sphere, Serra returned to the workshop in the spring of 2007 to create Paths and Edges. The 13 prints in this series are smaller in scale than the preceding series but have much bolder lines. Filling the sheet like a magnified close-up, the heavily textured etched imagery covers much of the buff-colored paper, with only small slivers separating the curved black bands.

UPPER EAST SIDE GALLERY STROLL
October 11, 2007

Eleven of the most prestigious galleries in Manhattan's Upper East Side will host an Upper East Side Gallery Stroll on Thursday, October 11 from 6 until 9 pm. Extending their usual hours, these galleries are inviting the public to spend a lovely Autumn evening strolling along Madison Avenue and its side streets between 68th and 80th, viewing a diverse and extraordinary selection of artworks.

Click here to download the press release.

Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl has relocated to the fifth floor of the magnificent 1949 Parke-Bernet Galleries Building at 980 Madison Avenue, which The New York Times recently noted was once the “Grand Central Terminal of the art world.”
January 2007

The opening exhibition is entitled "A Grand Opening," and it is simply that – a splendid return to a very public presence for Gemini publications in Manhattan. Included in the exhibition are 19 prints and sculptures spanning the over 40 years of artistic collaborations in the Gemini workshop.

Click here for a printable version of the checklist.

John Baldessari
Noses & Ears, Etc.: The Gemini Series
New Editions
September 2006

John Baldessari's new project, Noses & Ears, Etc: The Gemini Series, begins with found photographic images, as is typical of his work. Baldessari has said, “For me, there is an image junk pile, and I’m a scavenger…. I’m trying to put them back together in some way, reassembling them.” He goes on to admit that he has always been interested in the spaces between things, and this becomes very apparent in these new works. Baldessari uses solid blocks of color to create silhouettes, a backdrop for the 3-dimensional noses and ears that are collaged onto the surfaces. Why noses and ears? Baldessari has typically obscured the faces of his subjects with colored spheres, but by doing so he draws attention them. Now he's simply putting his interest in noses and ears front-and-center, literally. Baldessari has also said he was amused by Gogol’s short story The Nose, in which a man's nose secedes from his face to embark on its own adventures. Baldessari, now in his mid-70's, clearly proves with this series that, like Gogol's character, he has many new adventures of his own yet to explore.

These new prints are fabricated in much the same way as his Person with Guitar series from 2004. Each piece is a multi-layer, multi-color screenprint that is showcased beautifully in a black lacquered frame built to the artist's specifications.