book Signing at Kmr | Arts
Kali, Face (Blue and Green), Palm Springs, Ca, 1968
Saturday, December 4, 2021, 1-4pm
2 Titus Road, Washington Depot, CT 06794
860-868-7588 | info@kmrarts.com | kmrarts.com
KMR Arts upcoming book signing: Kali Limited Edition, by Len Prince, Introduction by Matt Tyrnauer, Prefaces by Alexandra Jarrell, Essay by Brian Wallis.
Kali was a pioneer of alternative photography. She coined the term Artography to describe her painterly photographs, trademarking the name around 1967. Kali's lost archive spans five decades and contains three bodies of work—Portraits and Landscapes, Polaroids, and Outer Space.
Since its October 2021 release, Kali, a 4 volume edition in a custom slipcase, has received international acclaim in the following publications: NY Times T Magazine, Vanity Fair, Variety, Town and Country, The New Yorker, L'Officiel, LA Times, among many others.
Printed in a limited edition of 600, (and they are almost sold out!!) beautifully designed by the famed book designers Sam Shahid and Matthew Kraus and featuring an introduction by Matt Tyrnauer that showcases his stunning ability to understand Kali’s narrative along with an essay by the curator Brian Wallis, and published by powerHouse Books, KMR Arts is proud to present what is perhaps the discovery of the decade!
"Canyon and desert were the main environments of Kali, who, for the explosively productive years of her life—from the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s—was, a secretive and therefore obscure master of the visual arts, hidden among the mostly conventional West L.A. housewives of her generation; the woody station wagon-driving car pool moms and the occasional white Mercedes-driving grandes dames, indigenous to the Southland canyons and the stylish desert cities of the 1960s and 1970s. Joan Archibald—or Kali, in the darkroom—turns out to have been one of the great chroniclers, and interpreters, of the waning twentieth-century years of her adopted hometown; a secret historian of the era we now know mostly from the heavily marketed triumphs of The Beach Boys, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Joan Didion, and Shampoo."
- Matt Tyrnauer from Kali
If you cannot join us for the signing, please email kathy@kmrarts.com to reserve a copy.
Kali, Botticelli, Primavera Construction, Palm Springs, Ca. 1969
Kali, Paul with Mosquito, Palm Springs, Ca. 1968
Kali, Untitled (Collage 9), Palm Springs, Ca. 1973