Gemini G.E.L.

When Gemini was founded in 1966, fine art printmaking was on the verge of both a technical renaissance and a soaring popularity, as the torch of new art passed from France to America. The initial focus of the print revival was devoted to lithography, primarily as a result of the training master printers received at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, founded in Los Angeles in 1960. One of those newly trained master printers, Kenneth Tyler, had a small shop in the city when, almost a half century ago, a pair of University of Southern California friends and fraternity brothers, Sidney B. Felsen (1924-2024) and Stanley Grinstein (1927-2014) discovered Tyler’s shop and saw that it had the potential to become a unique fine art workshop and publishing house.