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| Blue Bunny resin, foam, acrylic paint 14” x 18” x 6” Group Show Sloan Fine Arts · NY 2009 |
| The Weasels foam, resin, acrylic paint 6” x 18” x 4” A Shadowless Summer Sloan Fine Arts · NY 2009 |
| Deer House mixed media 37” x 20” x 12” the Incurable Disorder BSFA · LA 2008 |
| Schwein Haben resin, foam, wood 48” x 36” x 18” Tears of the Crocodile Iguapop · Barcelona 2008 |
| The Titanic Buffalo resin, foam, wood 58” x 20” x 27” the Incurable Disorder BSFA · LA 2007 |
| Lioness mixed media 15” x 15” x 4” Tears of the Crocodile Iguapop · Barcelona 2008 |
| One Day mixed media 11” x 16” x 5” Group Show LA 2008 |
| Elizabeth Mcgrath |
Los Angeles-born artist Elizabeth McGrath has always had an eye for the strange
beauty in the grotesqueries of life; this appreciation is nowhere more evident
than in her work. Inspired by the relationship between the natural world and the
detritus of consumer culture, she brings forth a new cavalcade of creatures
from the darker corners of the streets, the city, the imagination. It is this
melancholy interaction between man-made status symbols and suffering
specimens of nature that make up her intricate body of work
beauty in the grotesqueries of life; this appreciation is nowhere more evident
than in her work. Inspired by the relationship between the natural world and the
detritus of consumer culture, she brings forth a new cavalcade of creatures
from the darker corners of the streets, the city, the imagination. It is this
melancholy interaction between man-made status symbols and suffering
specimens of nature that make up her intricate body of work
| Diorama |
| Sculpture |
| Frankie Machine wood, resin, metal, tar 36” x 64” Milk Blood La Luz De Jesus · LA 2000 |
| the Sailors Valentine wood, resin, cloth, tar 44” x 39” the Sailors Valentine CoproNason · LA 2001 |
| Thimble Riggers wood, resin, cloth, tar 59” x 60” Altarwise By Owl Light BSFA · LA 2006 |
| Sugar Foot wood, resin, cloth, tar 43” x 69” Everything That Creeps La Luz De Jesus · LA 2001 |
| Death By Desire wood, resin, cloth 59” x 60” the Incurable Disorder BSFA · LA 2007 |