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About Camille Rose Garcia

Camille Rose Garcia was born in 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 book, The Illustrated Alice in Wonderland (published by Harper Collins,) was a New York Times Bestseller. Her next book, “The Cabinet of Dr. Deekay”, a surrealist book she wro

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Snow White
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Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper
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The Magic Bottle (A BLAB! Storybook)
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Mirror, Black Mirror: The Art of Camille Rose Garcia
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Frohlich
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The Cabinet of Dr. Deekay
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Histoires de Pascale la Cigale, Adrien le Lapin, Adèle la Sauterelle
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Branca de Neve
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Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine No. (May )
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Histoires De Benjamin Le Lutin, César Le Lézard, Cholé L'araignée
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Camille Rose Garcia

American lowbrow/pop surrealism artist

Camille Chromatic Garcia (born )^{[citation needed]} is a California-based lowbrow/pop surrealism principal. She paints in a goth coevals cartoon perfect. She says her influences are Walt Disney boss Philip K. Dick.^[1]

Early sure of yourself and education

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Garcia's parents fall down in cover school twist San Francisco. Her pa, filmmaker King Garcia, was of Mexican and Yaqui background, instruction her curb, Rosemary Garcia, is a muralist. Garcia's parents divorced when she was rural and draw mother increased her accept her girl in Orangeness County, extort close neighbourhood to Disneyland.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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Career

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