Camille Rose Garcia

"I have designed two limited edition Skate decks! They turned out really beautiful and are super easy to display. The first image is from the archives and first appeared in BLAB! magazine in 2003. Who’s Afraid of the Peppermint Man features everyone’s favorite Candy Villain, The Peppermint Man, working the production/consumption machine of his capitalist candy empire. Cute, Pink, and subversive!

"The second board features Serpentine Dream from my 2016 art show at Roq La Rue in Seattle. This one is nature inspired, featuring mushrooms, moths, snakes, and the goddess of serpents herself, Lady Serpentine. The palette is all cool tones, blues and blacks, inspired by the colors of the river at night, and the vibe of the full moon." -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, 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 wrote and illustrated, will be released in the Fall of 2019 on Sympathetic Press. She currently lives in woods of the Pacific Northwest.