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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. Today she lives in Downtown LA with her hairless dogs Blue and King Tut, and her Husband Morgan Slade. They play together in the band Miss Derringer.
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Behind the scenes at a Morgan Slade Photo shoot-

Morgan's art show at Perihelion Arts in phoenix Arizona comes to a close this weekend. He was showing along side Richard Edson's "Beyond the Valley of the Microbops"  big portraits of tiny things! we weren't able to make it out to the opening because of the tour but were going out there for the closing party.

photo by Richard Edson - i want to kiss him on his nose, so cute!!!
For the show Morgan recruited the very talented and very beautiful ladies of Hairroin Salon to model for him. He was nervous to ask them so i did it for him- and they were like bikinis, mascot heads, were in!!! Hairroin owned by Janine Jarman is my favorite place to get my hair done!!! they are all super cool and don't give me a hard time about changing the color of my hair every time i go in!!!   if your looking for a place that can do anything check them out!!!!  champagne Friday's are always fun! !!!


 Hairroin's cute logo
we went out to Adele's the best costume shop in Hollywood and found a bunch of heads to brig to the shoot

thats my dear!

creepy!

the selection

King Tut chose his fav.

next the bikinis

then the fake tan!

Janine makes sure Irene doesnt have streaks!
Reyna Rodriguez grabs a snack and Blue and King Tut wish they were taller!
the legs of Irene Urias - bad dogs!!!!
from L-R- Reyna Rodriguez, Irene Uria, Shondra Leigh & Janine Jarman rule!!!







awesome!!!!!

grrrrrrrrr!!!!

the blur at the bottom of this photo is King Tut stealing Bikinis!

wise owl!

jared gold and myself at the snack bar

Irene, Reyna, Jared, janine, & Shondra

Blue even climbed the fence to get into the photo shoot!
some of the shots

works in progress

Trapped!


Morgan Slade hard at work!

if you are in Phoenix August 7 th come by and have a drink, Its also the opening of Bob Dob's new show "Black eyed Moiusketeers " Bob Dob rules- i once asked him how he got the name Bob Dod because he doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would go by an alias and he said that his real name was Bobby Dobby - his parents rule!!


painting by Bob Dob cant wait to see it in person!

Tomorrow we're going to be playing for  Shockhound TV in Hot Topic's Headquartes and then off to AZ and then i really need to get some art done or the folks at BSFA are going to kill me!!

thanks for reading this! and i hope your having a great summer!!!
liz

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alanperalta
Mascot Heads!
written by alanperalta, August 06, 2009
Send me one!!!!
Tallulah
Better late than never
written by Tally, October 03, 2009
so much fun - love it.
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Trippy
written by Writing Los Angeles, October 28, 2009
Sweet pics! The owl head is brilliant.

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