ARTFORUM

I was enticed by a 1958 drawing titled Fossil (Unicorn) and other delicate visions of skeletal beings in white, but I stayed for Pluto Transiting the Twelfth House, 1978–86, searching for heavenly figures in the group of cloudlike images.

CREATEASTIR

Following her husband’s curious death by explosion in 1952, Cameron would become an influential and somewhat feared presence inside fringe Hollywood circles.

THE BROOKLYN RAIL

Plagued by this deluge of mannered, largely appropriated fare, Carmeron stands out as the real thing—a long-time occult priestess of the first order. The current exhibition Sixties Surreal at the Whitney Museum missed the boat by not including her work: she should have been the exhibition’s guiding star. At Nicole Klagsbrun, we encounter a historically important selection of stunning Cameron works on paper and cardboard from different periods.

AFWA

An initiative of the Cameron Parsons Foundation dedicated to discovering and spotlighting influential women artists whose contributions have largely been obscured and overlooked. AFWA believes that recognizing their artwork and bringing to light their unique stories are essential for understanding 20th century art through these womens eyes.

VICE

It was under the influence of peyote that Cameron created the one drawing that became famous while she was still alive, Peyote Vision. Within the context of the buttoned-down, mid-century American zeitgeist...

ARTFORUM

Cameron, the name she preferred-was that rarest of figures, a seminal invisible. Artist, poet, witch, beacon of the counterculture, she knew everyone and materialized everywhere, though now her own name has all but vanished.

LA WEEKLY

She was an artist, an occultist and a fascinating woman. Now Cameron is finally getting her due.

LA REVIEW BOOKS

Artist and alchemist Cameron has a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).

HUFFPOST

Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel, known simply as Cameron, was born in 1923 in Belle Plaine, Iowa. Not far into her life, she established the reputation of being a witch.

LAIST

"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. . . ."

HUFFPOST

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.

HUFFPOST

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.

W MAGAZINE

Witch's Crew Fiery artist Marjorie Cameron was Los Angeles's original mistress of the occult. A half-century later, says Tim Blanks, the fashion world has fallen under her spell.