Hello, Looking for information about Los Angeles based artist. 

Marjorie Cameron, (1922-1995)

often known as "Cameron" 

Getty Pacific Standard Time program: A great deal of attention to artist's who live/ed and worked in Southern California (1945 to 1980) will be explored and exhibited, Oct. 2011 thru Feb. 2012. 

With Cameron's growing popularity, would like to know who has collected her work and what institutions or galleries plan to showcase her work in 2011-2012 either in the US or abroad.

Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel

Artist extraordinaire with a unique legendary career, an artist who lived her life with great abandon, curiosity, lust, magick and spiritually.

Born: 1922, Bell Plain Iowa

Military: Enlisted in the Navy and served by drawing maps and working with photographs.

Moved to Los Angeles 1945

1946, married Jack Parsons, scientist, inventor of rocket fuel, founding member of the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, crater on the moon named after him.

Cameron spent time in  Los Angeles, Desert areas, San Francisco, New Mexico, Mexico, New York, Paris.

Samson DeBrier, (1910-1995), raconteur and aesthete was a close friend of Cameron.

Introduced her to director, Kenneth Anger "The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome".. Cameron and Samson along with Anais Nin, starred in the 1954 avant garde cult classic, filmed in Hollywood in the home of DeBrier.

Cameron was also the star of Curtis Harrington's 1955, 16mm b/w 10 min. artistic film Wormwood Star, a movie about Cameron as an artist. 

Wallace Berman opening at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, summer, 1957

Cameron's galvanizing image included in the Berman show, provoked the Los Angeles Police to close Berman exhibition on grounds of indecency.

Cameron Parsons Foundation:

Tosh Berman - Book Soup (Feb. 2011)

New biography on Cameron "Wormwood Star" 

available at Book Soup / Los Angeles

Excellent reviews of two Jack Parson's books as well 

biography by Spencer Kansa "Wormwood Star, The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron" 

"Wormwood Star" is good reading, personal insights, poor picture quality, 

no available images of her art work! A very unusual story, no cookie cutter artist here! Someone was truly driven by her inner sanctum of expression.

Anyone producing a book or exhibition on Cameron? 

NOTE: I have a portfolio of images on Samson DeBrier, late 70's thru the end of his life. Samson died, April 1, 1995.  I also have images of Cameron attending his private memorial at his home holding a large scale nude sketch of her work. She died 3 months later, July 1995.  

Please contact:

Jean Ferro

Jean Ferro

http://www.JeanFerro.com

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