Los Angeles artist Camille Rose Garcia is quickly gaining international interest for her exceptionally unique work. Creating paintings using layers of drippy paint, ink, torn papers, black glitter, and varnishes, Camille creates a world of candy and flesh-colored gloss mixed with decay and ruin. She then populates this world with big eyed animals damaged from years of environmental pollution, sinister centipede-like villains, and Gothy little flapper girls that seem to recall both the early era of cartoon characters and the Victorian ensembles of Edward Gorey.

In this world, it's often unclear who is bad and who is good, and Camille uses this self-created world to make statements on mass consumer culture, environmental ruin, and the retreat to fantasy when the world becomes too much to bear, significant in our post 9/11 culture. Occasionally referred to as "comic," Camille's work transcends the merely narrative and becomes deeply meaningful, dark, and exhilarating to look at.