GEMINI G.E.L.
Impressions of Los Angeles: 60 Years of Printmaking at Gemini G.E.L.
curated by Susan Dackerman
February 28 - March 1, 2026 Celebrating 60 Years
Impressions of Los Angeles: 60 Years of Printmaking at Gemini G.E.L. celebrates the extraordinary output of one of the country’s most longstanding and vital publishers of fine art prints and sculpture. When Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein founded their print publishing venture in Los Angeles in 1966, they could not have anticipated the role their business and the city would play in the history of American printmaking. Inviting artists to visit the workshop and experiment with lithography resulted in some of the most important prints made in the mid-twentieth century. From lithography, the range of print techniques grew, and artists were encouraged to make printed images and multiples using whatever medium best suits their ideas. Impressions of Los Angeles encompasses the range of artists and print media that Gemini G.E.L. has nurtured over the past 60 years, emphasizing the role that the city has played in inspiring its artists.
The exhibition’s initial days coincide with Frieze Los Angeles, a fair that brings artists, collectors, and all manner of art enthusiasts to southern California. Unlike other parts of the country in February, Los Angeles is a kind of paradise – warm, sunny, and inviting. The theme and organization of the exhibition reflect this SoCal atmosphere, and the effect it had on the artists working at Gemini. Divided into two sections, the show’s artworks reveal what visitors and residents alike see and feel as they navigate the city.
The first section presented in the ground floor gallery features prints that portray Los Angeles’s atmospheric conditions, from its sunlit ocean to its foggy hills to its dreamy skies. Ken Price’s screenprint, Western Sunset, perfectly captures the stark bright orange light visible from an office building window overlooking the hills and neighborhoods to the west. David Hockney’s Sun similarly illuminates a room with a lone plant thriving in the sun’s streaming yellow rays. Color is deployed by many of the artists in the exhibition to reveal the changing ambiance of the city. Lithographs from Tacita Dean’s two skyward-looking print series, LA Exuberance and LA Magic Hour, reveal the implausible range of hues that color the skies from sunrise to sunset, while Hockney’s Rain and Mist use soft pastels to evoke the quiet tranquility that overtakes the city when it rains. The gallery space with its printed depictions of sunny beaches and looming palm trees represents the range of atmospheric conditions the city offers.
LA’s street life is the theme of the second section of the exhibition installed in gallery space designed by Frank Gehry. The cityscape, store fronts, and Hollywood landmarks had a profound effect on the New Yorkbased artist Rauschenberg who commemorated his encounters in the series of screenprints, LA Uncovered. The assembled photographs that comprise the prints offer a vivid picture of the city’s clubs, restaurants, and local life, including a sandwich board advertisement that announces: “Movie Star Maps Sold Here.” Sweetzer Avenue, near the Gemini workshop, inspired Elizabeth Murray’s colorful assemblages, including Woof, which suggests the soundscape of the city’s many dogs, pictured by her in purple and yellow. In his etchings, the architect Frank Gehry draws our attention to the local architecture – houses of his own design that inhabit the city. Meanwhile, Analia Saban made the interior of her house the subject of her work, etching the design of floor planks and grain onto a wooden support, and thus offering us the look and feel of the hard wood floors typical in the city’s iconic bungalows.
Impressions of Los Angeles seeks to remind visitors to the gallery that artists working at Gemini employed the urban environment to enhance the landscape of printmaking over the past 60 years.Through experimentation and the execution of their creative visions, Gemini’s artists have enabled all of us to see the city through their eyes.
Susan Dackerman
(DH73-501)
8-color lithograph/silkscreen
37 1/4” x 30 5/8” (94.6 x 77.8 cm) Edition of 98
37” x 32” (94 x 81.3 cm)
Edition of 98
(DH73-498)
6-color lithograph/silkscreen
39” x 31 5/8” (99.1 x 80.3 cm)
Edition of 98
LA
(TD17-1670)
Hand-drawn, multi-color blend lithograph
29 7/8" x 29 7/8" (75.88 x 75.88 cm) Edition of 42
(TD15-1643)
Hand-drawn 3-color blend lithograph
29 7/8" x 29 7/8" (75.88 x 75.88 cm) Edition of 36
Drypoint - Ocean Surface - 2nd State, 1985
(VC84-3101)
1-color drypoint
24” x 19” (61 x 48.3 cm)
Edition of 55
2, 2025 (TK24-3616)
20 7/8" x 21 1/2" (53.02 x 54.61 cm)
Edition of 35
57” x 42 1/2” (144.8 x 108 cm) Edition of 55
Diebenkorn Twelve, 1985
(RIDI84-1115)
14-color lithograph
44” x 34 1/4” (111.8 x 87 cm)
Edition of 50
Sunshine Through the Clouds, 1985 (RL85-1122)
36-color lithograph/woodcut/screenprint
55 1/2” x 40” (141 x 101.6 cm) Edition of 60
6-color lithograph
24 3/8” x 24 1/2” (64.5 x 62.2 cm)
Edition of 38
(ER98-1407)
2 color lithograph
22" x 14" (55.88 x 35.56 cm)
Edition of 35
Untitled, 1975
(JG75-5141)
Double-layered fabric w/ 2 color screen print
28 3/4” x 38 1/2” (73.03 x 97.79 cm) Edition of 23
7-color screenprint
26" x 20 3/8" (66.04 x 51.75 cm)
Edition of 70
Art & Technology, 1971 (WC71-5004)
5-color photo offset/silkscreen
31" x 22 3/4" (78.74 x 57.79 cm)
Edition of 300
7-color lithograph
22 11/16" x 15 3/4" (57.63 x 40.01 cm) Edition of 100
6-color lithograph/embossing
22 11/16" x 15 3/4" (57.63 x 40.01 cm)
Edition of 100
6-color lithograph/embossing
22 11/16" x 15 3/4" (57.63 x 40.01 cm)
Edition of 100
3-color screenprint
16" x 25 3/4" (40.64 x 65.41 cm)
Edition of 70
(RR98-5249)
12-color screenprint
24 1/2" x 20 3/4" (62.23 x 52.71 cm)
Edition of 60
House Study 2, 2016 (FG16-3548)
1-color etching
37 1/4" x 17" (94.62 x 43.18 cm)
Edition of 35
House Study 1, 2016 (FG16-3547)
1-color etching
15 1/2" x 44 3/4" (39.37 x 113.67 cm)
Edition of 35
26 3/4" x 26 1/2" x 0 3/4" (67.95 x 67.31 x 1.91 cm)
Edition of 38
Seriously", 2012 (RT11-224)
6-color spit bite, aquatint, chine colle and paper pulp construction, with unique hand-drawn by artist
20 1/4" x 25 1/4" (51.44 x 64.14 cm)
38 unique works
(JBA07-1575)
1-color lithograph/3-color screenprint
20 1/2" x 14 1/2" (52.07 x 36.83 cm)
Edition of 100
Ann Hamilton written, 1999
(AH00-3308)
Blind debossment
22" x 30" (55.88 x 76.20 cm)
Edition of 80
L.A. Muses, 1999 (BM99-1430)
3-color etching/lithograph
22" x 30" (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Edition of 80
1-color etching
30" x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Edition of 80
Elizabeth Murray
Woof from Sweetzer Suite, 2006 (EM06-217)
3-dimensional assemblage of hand-carved foam, hand-painted by the artist
Approx 37” x 29” (94 x 73.7 cm)
Series of 4 unique works
Elizabeth Murray
Ed from Sweetzer Suite, 2006 (EM06-218)
3-dimensional assemblage of hand-carved foam, hand-painted by the artist
Approx 37” x 29” (94 x 73.7 cm)
Series of 4 unique works
(RR91-1281)
4-color lithograph
31” x 41" (103.2 x 68.6 cm)
Edition of 59
16-color screenprint
41" x 30 1/2" (104.14 x 77.47 cm)
Edition of 64
(RR98-5252)
12-color screenprint
32" x 23" (81.28 x 58.42 cm)
Edition of 58
2-color lithograph
40” x 30" (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Edition of 58
Chronosaur, 1993 (RR92-1326)
5-color lithograph
40 5/8" x 27" (103.19 x 68.58 cm)
Edition of 47
Robert Rauschenberg
L.A. Flakes - 400’ and Falling, 1982 (RR82-3069)
6-color etching/embossing
30 1/2" x 23" (77.5 x 58.4 cm)
Edition of 39
Robert Rauschenberg
L.A. Flakes - 2,003’ and Falling, 1982 (RR82-3066)
9-color etching/embossing
30 1/2" x 23" (77.5 x 58.4 cm) Edition of 37
