Camille Rose Garcia: "Ambien Somnambulants" paintings

Pop surrealist Camille Rose Garcia has opened an astonishing show of paintings at New York's Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Garcia's psychedelic visions depict an interzone of the insane where charming entities enact a paranoiac's fairy tale. Or something like that. The exhibition, titled Ambien Somnambulants, runs through October 4 and is also viewable online. Seen here, "Night of the Sleepwitch" (Acrylic, Silver Leaf and Glitter on Panel, 33 x 40 inches). From the gallery:

In Ambien Somnambulants, tragic sleepwalkers wander along beautifully bleak post-apocalyptic dreamscapes, inspiring dissent from a dire dystopia. Garcia’s stunningly subversive images expand upon her signature style of elaborate socio-political narratives, hidden beneath layers of fairy-tale charm. The artist creates human and animal characters, influenced by a vintage animation aesthetic, which aid in her epic visual storytelling, rendered in a palette of psychedelic color, glitter, and glazed-over collaged wallpaper. Her use of bright color serves as a visual distraction from painful realities, while her use of silver leaf as a decorative element, references an age of abundance and opulence, slightly tarnished to represent the twilight years of our civilization.

Camille Rose Garcia: "Ambien Somnambulants" (Jonathan Levine Gallery)

Previously on BB:
• Camille Rose Garcia's Grand Illusion paintings
• Camille Rose Garcia at the San Jose Museum of Art
• Camille Rose Garcia: Tragic Kingdom sneak preview

[#1 posted by membrain , September 8, 2008 7:39 PM]

I wish there was an exhibition of her work in Europe somewhere so i wouldn't have to dip the big pond in order to see it!

[#2 posted by teckels , September 8, 2008 8:40 PM]

She's been in my head!

[#3 posted by OM , September 9, 2008 6:08 AM]

...For some people, Ambien-induced sleepwalking is a concern. When I first got "Stumpy", the quacks were really hesitant to prescribe the stuff in fear that I'd get up and try to sleepwalk with just one leg. One even suggested I strap myself to the bed each night while on the stuff! So far, about the only thing it does is put me into a deep REM sleep and helps the dreams actually become a bit more controllable.

Oh, get your mind out of the gutter. I haven't had those kinds of dreams since High School...

[#4 posted by justONEguy , September 9, 2008 9:45 AM]

Her stuff just gets better and better!