Camille Rose Garcia

Camille Rose Garcia was born in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, the child of a Mexican activist filmmaker father and a muralist/painter mother. Her work is heavily influenced by her childhood spent 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. Garcia’s pieces blend nostalgic pop culture references with a satirical slant on modern society.