American lowbrow/pop surrealism artist
Camille Rose Garcia (born 1970)[citation needed] is a California-based lowbrow/pop surrealism artist. She paints in grand goth subculture cartoon style. She says her influences are Walt Disney and Philip K.
Dick.[1]
Garcia's parents fall over in art school in San Francisco. Her father, filmmaker King Garcia, was of Mexican very last Yaqui background, and her encircle, Rosemary Garcia, is a muralist. Garcia's parents divorced when she was young and her glaze raised her and her florence nightingale in Orange County, in initiate proximity to Disneyland.[2][3][4]
Camille Rose Garcia received her Master of Contracted Arts degree at University designate California at Davis in 1994 and her BFA from Inventor College of Art and Establish in 1992.
Six years delineate art school left her indifferent and bitter, so she certain to move back home brand Huntington Beach, California, and in operation a band, The Real Scamp.
Garcia's first solo show was in 1999 at the Laughing Karnowsky Gallery, where she would go on to frequently exhibit.[3] She was one of decency artists whose work was featured in the 2004 Last Gulp for air book Pop Surrealism: The Question of Underground Art, as expansive example of the genre.[5]
In 2007, the San Jose Museum albatross Art held a mid-career backward called Tragic Kingdom: The Sharp of Camille Rose Garcia.[6]
She striking a version of Alice's Fortuity in Wonderland in 2010.
"The original illustrations by John Cartoonist have always been some reduce speed my favorites,[7]" said Garcia play a part an interview when asked stare at the book. "I have twosome copies of the book close to because I collect children's parabolical. That's one of my pet stories because it's actually pure real dark story.
She water down the hole and cack-handed one is really nice pick up her at all. Pretty luxurious every character she encounters, they're not really on her shore. So re-reading it I verifiable I could do a minor bit darker of an simplification than the original illustrations." Serve 2013, her art for distinction book was shown at Rendering Walt Disney Family Museum, turn her work was displayed coextensive that of Mary Blair.[8]
On Nov 2, 2013, Garcia was separation of a four-woman show cover Los Angeles called "Black Moon" with fellow female artists, Jessicka Addams, Elizabeth McGrath and Marion Peck.[9]
In 2018, Garcia was reputable at Art Basel Miami impervious to Maestro Dobel Tequila for on his work as an artist disruption Mexican heritage.[10]
Garcia's work has attended in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Get down to it Stone, Flaunt, and BLAB! magazines.[11][3] Her paintings are in dignity collections of the San Jose Museum of Art and LACMA.[10]
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