Camille Rose Garcia
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Camille Rose Garcia (born 1970) is a Los Angeles-based lowbrow artist. She produces paintings, prints and sculpture in a gothic, "creepy" cartoon style. She cites as influences Walt Disney and Philip K. Dick.
[edit] Biography
Camille Rose Garcia received her Master of Fine Arts Degree at University of California at Davis in 1994 and her BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 1992.
She has built a body of work that has been exhibited at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery (LA), the Grand Central Art Station (CSU, Fullerton) in Los Angeles, the Roq la Rue Gallery in Seattle, and the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in N.Y.C. Often using narrative and fairytale, Garcia’s depictions of cartoon children living in wastelands comment on the failures of capitalism. Her works examine themes of decadence, denial. Garcia says about her work, “the Earth is older than humans and will rebound, but the fate of our species seems to be precarious at best. I try to be positive and use humor in my work, even while knowing this.” [1]
Garcia's work has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Rolling Stone, Flaunt, and Blab! magazines.
She has published two books, The Saddest Place on Earth, (Last Gasp, 2006) and The Magic Bottle: A BLAB! Storybook, (Fantagraphics, 2006). A reviewer of The Saddest Place on Earth found it “nightmarish and beautiful, [Garcia is] one of the most unique and hauntingly original artists of our time.” [2]
Her work also appears in the permanent collections of LACMA and the San Jose Museum of Art.
[edit] Sources
- "Camille Rose Garcia at Grand Central Art Center" Exhibition Review in Artweek, December 2005/January 2006, pp. 17-18.
- Marisa Solis, "Army of Darkness: Camille Rose Garcia Fights the Forces of Evil," Juxtapoz #62, March 2006.
