Despite disagreeing with Supertouch’s statement that “the content level of the vinyl toy market [is bottoming] out alongside the dying economy,” I’m grateful for them turning me onto these fantastic plush art dolls by Camille Rose Garcia. The Peppermint Man and Seymore Squidley were created for Camille’s recent show at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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Someone had themselves a treasure hunt and found a cache of the utterly awesome. Well maybe “found” is too loose a word. According to the toy distributor DKE “After more than a year of waiting, haggling, struggling, and more waiting the rest of the Camille Rose Garcia dolls finally arrived.” These dolls were originally release [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 29, 2008
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This Wednesday on October 1st, the stellar Art for Hope show will take place at the Merry Karnowsky LA Gallery in, of course, LA. The Art for Hope event is to benefit the Barack Obama presidential campaign so that’s why the steep $25 cover charge, running to be the leader of the free world doesn’t [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 8, 2008
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I was really bummed not to be in the Los Angeles vicinity over the weekend, but as we all know, I had to do my shoppin’ at my local Target. So I surrounded myself with the masses instead of the massively awesome art at Camille Rose Garcia’s “Ambien Somnambulants” show and the Panoramic Project III [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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You know who’s super cool? The artist Camille Rose Garcia. And if you’re cool, then you undoubtedly have the Necessaries Toy Foundation doll quartet produced back in way back in 2006. Besides those awesome dolls, she is really known for her beautiful, dreamy, and eerily creepy painting. Opening September 6th at the Johnathan LeVine Gallery [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 23, 2008
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You know what’s looking pretty sweet? The upcoming issue of the “under the counter culture art magazine” Hi-Fructose. Their summer issue, volume eight, hits the stands soon (they are in the process of taking preorder now). The cover features a stunning piece by the amazing artist Camille Rose Garcia (known for her magical paintings the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 15, 2008
Artifice (noun): A deceptive maneuver usually intended to deceive or defraud Last month, the Internet illustration community was abuzz with an enormous breach in copyright. A coffee table art book called Colorful Illustrations 93°C was supplied by a person named Zhao Jun to a company called Sendpoint who then turned it over to a publisher [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 15, 2008
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The recently opened Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Berlin, yeah, the Berlin that’s found in Germany, will play host to the artistic genius of the one and only Camille Rose Garcia. (You may be the proud owner of the set of dolls she did for Necessaries Toy Foundation). Her stunning painting and prints have previously been [...]
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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