Cali Thornhill DeWitt’s Adult Books was produced as a Fundraising Edition for the 2015 LA Art Book Fair. The edition of 100 contains an uncanny cyan image of latex-gloved hands, accompanied by the words “ADULT BOOKS” in DeWitt’s infamous bold sans-serif typeface. The print on vinyl is on corrugated plastic and comes in two color variations: white text on black and black text on white. The print evokes sci-fi operations and adult movies in order to produce a work containing dry humor and palpable desire.
Cali Thornhil DeWitt is an artist and designer who lives and works in Los Angeles. Dewitt was born in British Columbia on Vancouver Island in 1973, although he spent the majority of his childhood in Los Angeles. DeWitt co-founded the record label Teenage Teardrops in 2006 with Bryan Ray. Teenage Teardrops has released music from No Age, Lucky Dragons, and Crazy Band. DeWitt was part of the Zen Mafia which produced zines, a weekly radio show and a blog. DeWitt has produced several artists books including New Rose in Town, published in 2013 by Hesse Press. He has shown work at Big Love in Tokyo, Muddguts in New York, V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, and Family Gallery in Los Angeles. Cali Thornhill DeWitt is known for his provocative prints which often enter the world as fine art and circulate in the realms of fashion and celebrity culture.
