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OX-OP ARTS PRESENTS:
CAMILLE ROSE GARCIA - WORKS ON PAPER
Artist Reception: Saturday AUG. 7TH, 7:00 pm – 10:00pm
Show runs AUG 7TH – AUG 31ST , 2004

MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- This month OX-OP Arts welcomes Los Angeles artist Camille Rose Garcia, whose work presents a gorgeous world rife with malicious danger; a twisted dystopia seen through rose colored glasses.

Born in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, Camille Rose Garcia grew up in the generic suburbs of Orange County, visiting Disneyland and going to punk shows with the other disenchanted youth of that era. Her drawings of creepy cartoon children living in wasteland fairy tales are critical commentaries on the breakdown of the capitalist machine. Her creative influences run the gamut from Phillip K. Dick, William Burroughs and Henry Darger to Walt Disney, as well as politically aware bands like The Clash and Dead Kennedys.

The world inside Garcia’s mind is a place of aquamarine jewels, layered cakes, white castles and plentiful pharmaceuticals. But upon closer inspection, the glossy veneer of privilege falls away to reveal much darker festivities. Princesses live and die here, trapped in giant dresses, slashing wrists and downing pills, not entirely happy with their pristine world built upon piles of atrocities. Drippy malaise falls from the sky, elephants are hacked apart and carted away, white bunnies explode against dark skies. Machine guns and machetes act as decorative afterthoughts, forming a wallpaper of pathology that decorates our lives.

Powerful and hypnotic, “Works On Paper” serves as a looking glass into the everyday violence that supports the current power structure and prescribes a glitter coated pill to help things go down. The effect of the pill once digested, however, depends upon the viewer.

Garcia’s exhibition at OX-OP comes on the heels of a highly successful show at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Juxtapoz, Rolling Stone, and Paper Magazine, among others, and can also be seen in the upcoming issue of BLAB magazine.

Camille Rose Garcia can be reached through her website, www.camillerosegarcia.com.

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