Camille Rose Garcia
dal 31/3/2006 al 28/4/2006
Segnalato da
31/3/2006
Camille Rose Garcia
Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
The artist explores a futuristic scenario in which an overpopulated, overdeveloped world is forced to move into a series of underground caves.The exhibition includes nearly forty pieces, comprised of paintings, drawings, wall murals and a sculptural installation.
Subterranean Death Clash
Jonathan LeVine Gallery is proud to present Subterranean
Death Clash, new works by acclaimed artist Camille Rose Garcia. Using
narrative and fairytale structures, Garcia explores a futuristic scenario
in which an overpopulated, overdeveloped world is forced to move into a
series of underground caves. The exhibition includes nearly forty pieces,
comprised of paintings, drawings, wall murals and a sculptural
installation. The opening for Subterranean Death Clash is on Saturday,
April 1st from 6pm-9pm at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. The exhibition will be
on view through April 29th.
Using metaphor and symbolism, Garcia illustrates her cultural commentary of
a world destroyed by the military industrial complex, overpopulation, and
imperialism. The Royal Disorder, an elite group led by General Disorder
and his army of poison bottles and castles, slash and burn their way
through many different underworlds until they dig their way into the final
cavern, the Land of the Dead. There they battle cave swans and death armies
in a final Subterranean Death Clash.
“The Royal Disorder represents a capitalistic society at the end of it’s
rope" explains Garcia, “These parasitic creations dig underground, blind
with over consumption, and ultimately dig their own graves, a metaphor for
how we live exploiting all of our resources." Antarctic Suburban Outpost,
the only painting that is stationed above ground, depicts the most elusive
creature in the world, the Giant Squid, land marooned, as even the bottom
of the sea has become uninhabitable.
Through beautiful line work and acute stylization, Garcia’s Subterranean
Death Clash presents a psychological retreat, a cultural mirror that is
violent, fashionable, and political. “The Earth is older than humans and
will rebound, but the fate of our species seems to be precarious at best.
I try to be positive and use humor in my work, even while knowing this."
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 1st from 6-9pm
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th Fl. - New York