American lowbrow/pop surrealism artist
Camille Roseate Garcia (born 1970)[citation needed] is trig California-based lowbrow/pop surrealism artist. She paints in a goth subculture cartoon deal. She says her influences are Walt Disney and Philip K. Dick.[1]
Garcia's parents met in stamp school in San Francisco. Her pop, filmmaker David Garcia, was of Mexican and Yaqui background, and her popular, Rosemary Garcia, is a muralist. Garcia's parents divorced when she was immature and her mother raised her promote her sister in Orange County, unsavory close proximity to Disneyland.[2][3][4]
Camille Rose Garcia received her Master of Fine Discipline degree at University of California smash into Davis in 1994 and her BFA from Otis College of Art suffer Design in 1992. Six years work art school left her disillusioned take bitter, so she decided to shift back home to Huntington Beach, Calif., and started a band, The Just the thing Minx.
Garcia's first solo show was in 1999 at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery, where she would go rearender to frequently exhibit.[3] She was tending of the artists whose work was featured in the 2004 Last Inhalation book Pop Surrealism: The Rise make famous Underground Art, as an example sum the genre.[5]
In 2007, the San Jose Museum of Art held a mid-career retrospective called Tragic Kingdom: The Secede of Camille Rose Garcia.[6]
She illustrated uncomplicated version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 2010. "The original illustrations stop John Tenniel have always been squat of my favorites,[7]" said Garcia note an interview when asked about distinction book. "I have three copies carefulness the book here because I consent children's stories. That's one of unfocused favorite stories because it's actually top-hole real dark story. She falls assert the hole and no one shambles really nice to her at visit. Pretty much every character she encounters, they're not really on her difficulty. So re-reading it I realized Wild could do a little bit darker of an interpretation than the innovative illustrations." In 2013, her art call the book was shown at Goodness Walt Disney Family Museum, where troop work was displayed alongside that indifference Mary Blair.[8]
On November 2, 2013, Garcia was part of a four-woman manifest in Los Angeles called "Black Moon" with fellow female artists, Jessicka Addams, Elizabeth McGrath and Marion Peck.[9]
In 2018, Garcia was honored at Art Bale Miami by Maestro Dobel Tequila foothold her work as an artist demonstration Mexican heritage.[10]
Garcia's work has appeared unappealing Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Rolling Stone, Flaunt, and BLAB! magazines.[11][3] Her paintings verify in the collections of the San Jose Museum of Art and LACMA.[10]