Cameron's Connections to Scientology and Powerful Men Once Drew Headlines, But Now Her Art Is Getting Its Due

LA WEEKLY - By Tanja M. Laden | October 8, 2014

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.”

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