
Camille Rose Garcia
Los Angeles, CA
Camille Rose Garcia was born in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, The
child of a Mexican activist filmmaker father and a muralist/painter
mother, she apprenticed at age 14 working on murals with her mother
while growing up in the generic suburbs of Orange County, visiting
Disneyland and going to punk shows with the other disenchanted youth
of that era.
Garcia’s layered, broken narrative paintings of wasteland fairy
tales are influenced by William Burroughs’ cut-up writings and
surrealist film, as well as vintage Disney and Fleischer cartoons,
acting as critical commentaries on the failures of capitalist
utopias, blending nostalgic pop culture references with a satirical
slant on modern society.
Her work has been displayed internationally and featured in numerous
magazines including Juxtapoz, Rolling Stone, and Modern Painter, and
is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum as
well as the San Jose Museum of Art, which held a retrospective of
her work, Tragic Kingdom, in 2007.