Camille Rose Garcia, artist, will present a School of Art and Baton Rouge Gallery-sponsored lecture titled “The Cosmic Mind: Tapping into Deep Imagination with Camille Rose Garcia” at the LSU College of Art & Design on Monday, January 28, 2019, at 5 p.m. in the LSU Design Building Auditorium (room 103).

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 soon to be portrayed in Stop-Motion animation. She currently lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest.

Garcia will also serve as juror for this year’s Surreal Salon. The annual exhibition celebrating the growing quality, popularity, and diversity of the pop-surrealist/lowbrow movement, returns to Baton Rouge Gallery for its eleventh year in January 2019. The exhibition, to be held January 3 – 31, 2019, in partnership with the LSU School of Art, will aim to once again feature works from artists around the world, giving audiences a unique multi-sensory experience with one-of-a-kind contemporary art typically not often presented in this region.