Tragic Kingdom: The Art of Camille Rose Garcia
Camille Rose Garcia is an emerging LA underground artist, whom a notable member of a contemporary movement know as “Pop Surrealism” or ” Low-brow”. It was the first time I heard about this term, and I think it is appropriate to function for grounding the contemporary concept of applying surrealism element to pop art creation when you experience a lot of pop paintings, graffiti, graphic designs, illustrations and sculptures, which employ the concept of surrealism that ride on a graphical mechanism. Particularly in Camille works, she transcends the fusion between dreamscape, unconscious, expression and critical issue in which well depict in her works. My fondness particularly goes to the Tragic Kingdom series amongst others in which reflects her subjective fact of Disneyland when she was living in the suburbs of Disneyland, California. It is normal that her works is addressing the unseen dark side of the neighborhood of Disneyland, but the ways of narration in the canvas and it subject are cleverly selected and executed yet reflexive. The mythology of the concept is clearly spoken, and the symbolic element recurrent in several series.
Permanent Collection
Great that permanent collection is open for photography, and here I occasionally met Jim Campbell’s work. He is really one of my favorite artists. Although San Jose Museum is just displaying one of his small scale works, I have enjoyed it so much already.
This is a photography taken in Hong Kong. Amazing, right? I have been in this city 25 years that got used to this cityscape, but is interesting to see the alternative perspective through artist from other cultural setting. Sometime when things you get used to , you naturally ignore its specialty.
