Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Cameron became a celebrated personality in California's underground art world and film scene. In 1954 she starred in Kenneth Anger's visual masterwork, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, stealing the show from her co-star Anais Nin. Cameron was an inspirational figure to the many artists and poets who congregated around Wallace Berman's Semina scene, and in 1957 Berman's show at the Ferus Gallery was shut down by LA's vice squad due to the sexually charged nature of one of her drawings. Undaunted, she continued to carve a unique and brilliant path as an artist.
A retrospective of Cameron's work, entitled The Pearl of Reprisal, was held at LA's Barnsdall Art Park in 1989 and following her death, some of her most admired pieces were included in the Reflections of a New Aeon Exhibition at the Eleven Seven Gallery in Long Beach, California. Cameron's famous Peyote Vision drawing made its way into the Beat Culture and the New America retrospective held at the Whitney Museum in 1995. In 2006, a survey of her work was featured in the critically lauded Semina Culture Exhibition, followed by CAMERON: Songs for the Witch Woman organized by MOCA (LA) in 2015.
CAMERON now on view
Saturdays / Sundays from 11 to 5
KENT FINE ART, 2854 Church Street, Pine Plains, NY f12567
