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January 28 – April 12, 2025
A Woman’s Place is in the Workshop
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl
In Person Viewing:
535 West 24th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
Online Viewing:
https://joniweyl.com/exhibition/womans-place-workshop
At its founding in 1966, Gemini G.E.L. was on the forefront of adventuresome American
printmaking, yet, typical of many creative and business activities of that era, it was virtually a
men’s club. The printers and the artists were, with one or two exceptions, all men.
Nevertheless, the glass ceiling showed some early signs of cracking: Anni Albers, perhaps
as a courtesy while her husband Josef was creating his 17 White Line Squares, was invited to
create three editions, and a single female lithography printer, Barbara Thomason, began her
career at Gemini in 1973.
At the dawn of the 21st century, Gemini’s invitations to women artists truly expanded, and
since 2005, nine women have made editions with Gemini.
In a business run for nearly 58 years by men, today Gemini is managed by four women – the
wife and daughters of Felsen and Grinstein. The senior manager and Master Printer of the
lithography studio is a woman, Jill Lerner, and two of her three assistants are women. And
today, all six projects currently underway at Gemini are by women.
A woman’s place is, indeed, in the workshop.
Featured artists include: Anni Albers, Cecily Brown, Sophie Calle, Vija Clemins, Tacita Dean, Ann Hamilton, Toba Khedoori, Julie Mehretu, Elizabeth Murray, Wangechi Mutu, Dorothea Rockburne, Susan Rothenberg, Anali Saban, Ranjani Shettar, and Sarah Sze
