Camille Rose Garcia was born in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, the child of a Mexican activist filmmaker father and a muralist/painter mother. Her work is heavily influenced by a childhood spent visiting Disneyland and going to punk shows with other disenchanted youth of that era. Garcia’s layered, broken-narrative paintings of wasteland fairy tales are influenced by William Burroughs’ cut-up writings, surrealist film, vintage Disney, and Fleischer cartoons, acting as critical commentaries on the failures of capitalist utopias. Garcia’s pieces blend nostalgic pop culture references with a satirical slant on modern society.
This Vultura Macabra continues Garcia’s passion for the unmistakable scavengers that began with the twin vultures seen in Snow White. After the 2021 DCON x VeVe launch of Garcia’s first NFT, the “Black Jack” edition drips with neon blues and pinks on a dark purple and black base, leaping directly out of her stories from the canvas to the digital realm of VeVe.
