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Songs For The Witch Woman, October 11, 2014–January 18, 2015 at MOCA Pacific Design Center.
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An Evening With Cameron: The Pearl of Reprisal.
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Art Forum 2015
Season of the Witch
"Cameron is the quintessential Californian: She made herself up."
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from LA Review of Books
Cameron, Witch of the Art World by Steffie Nelson. "Pale and slender, she is wrapped in a black-and-white shawl that once belonged to Rudolph Valentino, a Spanish comb fanning out from her fiery red hair. Slowly, she lifts the long, fringed lashes framing her blue eyes and fixes her liquid gaze on the camera. She extends her hand and opens her palm to reveal a tiny, horned devil, which is quickly snatched by a masked chimera with curling fingernails — the Great Beast himself — and set on fire. Casually, she leans in to light a joint off the flame. . . ." Read it . . .
from LAWeekly
Cameron's Connections to Scientology and Powerful Men Once Drew Headlines, But Now Her Art Is Getting Its Due.
Marjorie Elizabeth Cameron Parsons Kimmel always detested her first name. An artist and cult figure, she preferred simply "Cameron," the name she used when signing most of her captivating, often phantasmagoric and occasionally pornographic drawings, paintings, watercolors and poems. Of "Marjorie," she joked in a 1995 interview, "I call her my secretary. She deals with that world out there. . . ." Read it . . .
Dark Arts: Artist, occultist Marjorie Cameron featured in new book, MOCA show. "During a life that ended in 1995, Marjorie Elizabeth Cameron Parsons Kimmel was an occultist, an artist, an actress and wife to one of the world’s first rocket scientists. Neighbors and local newscasters called her a witch. . . ." Read it . . .
from Huffington Post
Meet Cameron, The Countercultural Icon Who Bewitched Los Angeles. "Perhaps this was due to her electric red hair, her long black fingernails and matching black garb, her predilection for driving around town in a hearse. Or maybe it was due to her ethereal and erotic artworks, conjuring witches, angels and other dark forces that float off the page. Likely, it was a combination of the two. . . ." Read it . . .
from Huffington Post
Cinderella of the Wastelands by Scott Hobbs
"My late friend Cameron had many incarnations as an artist, poet, occultist, muse and counter culture anarchist. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine her as an avatar of haute couture. . . ." Read it . . .
from Huffington Post
Rocket Man by Scott Hobbs
"Sixty years ago on June 17, 1952, a brilliant young rocket scientist and occultist was killed in an explosion in Pasadena of origins that remain mysterious to this day. . . ." Read it . . .
from "W" Magazine
"Fiery artist Marjorie Cameron was Los Angeles's original mistress of the occult. A half-century later, says Tim Blinks, the fashion world has fellen under her spell." Read it . . .
