Two catalogues that investigate the long-reaching aesthetic influence of the Grateful Dead.
An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995
Published on the occasion of the 2025 exhibition An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995 at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. The catalogue includes 275 images, an essay from Stuart Krimko, and an afterword by the noted rock photographer Jay Blakesberg, who edited and curated the publication with his daughter, Ricki Blakesberg.
An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995 is published by David Kordansky Gallery and designed by Hudson Shively.
Hardcover, English
280 pages
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The Galaxy Song
Published by David Kordansky Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition The Galaxy Song, July 17 – August 28, 2021, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition featured unique silkscreen prints and paintings by Matthew Brannon and paintings and sculpture by artists and fashion designers Elijah Funk & Alix Ross (Online Ceramics). For both Brannon and Funk & Ross, The Galaxy Song is an occasion to treat the motifs, cosmic mindfulness, and countercultural narratives associated with the Grateful Dead as
springboards for open experimentation.
Featuring an essay by The New Yorker's Naomi Fry.
Softcover, 96 pages, English, 2022
Edition of 1,000
Designed by Studio LHOOQ
