For more than twenty-five years photographer Sidney Felsen has documented his world of friends and associates who have been guest artists at Los Angeles' pioneering workshop, Gemini G.E.L. He has captured on film Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Ellsworth Kelly, Vija Celmins, Alan Ginsberg, Jasper Johns and more, working and playing in Los Angeles and beyond. They they became the most recognized figures of out era is, to Felsen, incidental to their friendship and to his desire to record a particular milieu on film.
September 10, 1999 – October 23, 1999
Graham, Johns, Kelly, Kienholz, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg
March 10, 1999 – April 24, 1999
October 20, 1998 – November 21, 1998
In December, 1997, artists Robert Rauschenberg and Darryl Pottorf spent nearly a week photographing Los Angeles for Rauschenberg's series of 12 screenprints, L.A. Uncovered, and for their collborative project of 4 screenprints, Quattro Mani. Guided by two retired police officers, they freely explored the diverse and multicultural city, capturing its ethnic colors, symbols, language, and celebratory spirits.
September 12, 1998 – October 21, 1998
Five prints by Bruce Nauman and two ceramic multiples by Ken Price have just been published by the Los Angeles-based artists' workshop, Gemini G.E.L., and can be viewed at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl in New York City.
In this new body of work, Bruce Nauman further explores the imagery of hands, previously seen in an earlier series of Gemini prints, Fingers and Holes...
March 18, 1998 – May 22, 1998
January 29, 1998 – March 14, 1998
Works by the French Conceptual artist Daniel Buren, entitled 'Situated Lithographs', are on view at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl January 29th through March 14th.
Buren is best known for his 'striped' imagery, alternating white and colored bands that are always vertical and exactly 8.7 cm (3 7/16'') wide. Buren calls the motif of these bands his "visual tool"; it is not the bands themselves that the artist wishes us to notice but instead they are meant to stimulate us to become sensitive to the location and structure of the rooms or the sites they inhabit.
Partial Truth
November 5, 1997 – December 20, 1997
A Roman letter-font was selected by Bruce Nauman for the words PARTIAL TRUTH to be hand-carved into a Black Absolute Granite stone measuring 18'' x 24'' x 2''. The top surface of the stone is highly polished prior to the carving; the sides and bottom remain ruff-cut as recieved from the quarry. Nauman's intials, the edition number (the total edition size is 25) and the publisher's information (identification number, copyright) is sandblasted on the bottom
Art for Change
September 23, 1997 – November 1, 1997
A selection of mixed-media artworks by Robert Rauschenberg published by the Los Angeles artists' workshop, Gemini G.E.L., will be on view at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl from September 23 through November 1, 1997. Sales from the exhibition will benefit Change Inc., a foundation established by Rauschenberg to assist artists in need of emergency aid.
