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Mirror, Black Mirror: The Art of Camille Rose Garcia

Mirror, Black Mirror, chronicles the prolific and life changing time period of 2007-2011, when Garcia fled the sprawling mecca of Los Angeles, her lifelong home, and moved to a cabin in the woods of Northern California. Living so close to the natural world has given the artist even more insight into the major themes of her work, disenchantment with modern civilization, and the problems of become too removed from the natural world. Covering shows in New York, Berlin, and Los Angeles, Escape to Darlingtonia (2007) The Grand Illusion (Berlin, 2008) Ambien Somnambulants, (New York, 2008), THe Hydra of Babylon, (LA, 2009), and her most recent show, Snow White and the Black Lagoon (LA, 2011). This book features an essay by the artist, never before seen process sketches, and beautiful pen and ink drawings as well as her iconic layered acrylic on wood paintings. BIOGRAPHY 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 of Art, The Resnick Collection, and the San Jose Museum of Art, which held a retrospective of her work, entitled Tragic Kingdom, accompanied by a catalog of the same name. Garcia's latest project, The Illustrated Alice in Wonderland (published by Harper Collins, ) was a New York Times Bestseller. The recipient of the Stars of Design award from the Pacific Design Center, she recently moved to the Pacific Northwest after 38 years in Los Angeles.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 136
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780867197655
  • Genres
  • art
  • Release date
  • 2014