Corey Helford Gallery Presents Camille Rose Garcia (2/23-3/30)
Web of Stars
OPENING RECEPTION
February 23, 2019 | 7pm - 11pm
ON VIEW
February 23–March 30, 2019
“Web of Stars”
On Saturday, February 23, downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery is proud to present new works by Camille Rose Garcia, one of the most important figures in the Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow art movements over the last two decades, in Gallery 3.
Entitled Web of Stars, Garcia’s new collection (featuring 14 small and intimate paintings) are musings on the connection of all things creating the universe simultaneously. This interconnectedness of the universe, from the largest planets to the tiniest insects, and how every piece of the universe is involved in creating the magic of itself has become a primary focus lately of Garcia’s work. From Maya, the weaver of the Universe, we get the symbolism of the Spider weaving a web that connects all living things, the web representing the patterns and vibration. This body of work also continues Garcia’s exploration of music and space with the relationship of sound to form.
The palette of the paintings is limited to greens, blues, and blacks, to represent the force of life (green and blues) forming itself out of the blackness of space. These are also the colors of night, the colors of dreams, and the colors of intuition. Animal symbols and Planetary Deities work together on the weaving together of the Universe. In “Neptune Transmitter” (pictured below), Despina, the embodiment of one of the 13 moons of Neptune, calls forth the other moons, arranging them in orbit around the ice planet.
Garcia received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 LA Art Show and was also the recipient of Maestro Dobel Tequila’s annual Legacy Series (an initiative that honors and celebrates artists who are pushing Mexico forward on the global stage) at Basel Week Miami this past December.
Web of Stars opens on Saturday, February 23 from 7pm - 11pm in Gallery 3. The reception is open to the public and the exhibit will be on view through Saturday, March 30. The space is open Tuesday - Saturday, 12pm - 6pm. Corey Helford Gallery is located at 571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033.
About 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 (her work has twice graced the cover), 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.
About Corey Helford Gallery:
Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) was first established in 2006 by Jan Corey Helford and her husband, television producer and creator, Bruce Helford (Anger Management, The Drew Carey Show, George Lopez, The Oblongs) and has since evolved into one of the premier galleries of New Contemporary art. Its goals as an institution are the support and growth of young and emerging, to well-known and internationally established artists, the production and promotion of their artwork, and the general production of their exhibits, events and projects.
CHG represents a diverse collection of international artists, primarily influenced by today’s pop culture and collectively encompassing style genres such as New Figurative Art, Pop Surrealism, Neo Pop, Graffiti and Street Art, and Post-Graffiti.
After nine years in Culver City, CHG relocated in December 2015 to a robust 12,000 square foot building in Downtown Los Angeles, where it continues to host exhibitions within the heart of the city’s art community. The current space boasts three separate galleries, each of which house individual artist and group exhibitions, whereas the main gallery offers 4,500 square feet, providing total immersion for its attendees. New exhibitions are presented approximately every five weeks. For more info and an upcoming exhibition schedule, visit CoreyHelfordGallery.com and connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
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