In 1966, at the age of forty-one, Sidney Felsen moved from the world of accounting to that of art, founding the artists’ workshop and fine-art print publisher Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles. With Gemini G.E.L., Sidney quickly got to work with some of the biggest artists of the twentieth century: Josef Albers, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Man Ray, to name a few. And Gemini G.E.L. continues its work with new generations of artists, including Tacita Dean, Julie Mehretu, and Analia Saban.

In this episode, Sidney talks about how Gemini G.E.L. got started and grew into the organization it is today, sharing stories about the artists he’s worked with along the way.

Co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art, Julie Mehretu is a mid-career survey that unites nearly 40 works on paper with 35 paintings dating from 1996 to the present. Included in the exhibition are two prints from the artist's latest collaboration with Gemini G.E.L., Six Bardos. The exhibition will travel to the Whitney Museum in June 2020.

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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Visit Gemini G.E.L. at Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth B8.  Featuring new and recent editions by John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Analia Saban, Richard Serra, Richard Tuttle.  Please click here for a complete checklist.