Liz Mcgrath

Los Angeles-born artist Liz McGrath has always had an eye for the strange beauty in the grotesqueries of life; this appreciation is nowhere more evident than in her new works. 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: Leading the pack comes 'Deerhouse', a delicate, upholstery-covered deer who carries a furnished Victorian Painted Lady on its back, complete with fine china. Then comes 'The Buffalo', a life-sized burlap-covered buffalo head balancing a luxury liner cruise ship. It is this melancholy interaction between man-made status symbols and suffering specimens of nature that make up the Incurable Disorder.