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Artist Liz McGrath has a very serious knack for the grotesque and the macabre. This exhibit is called “Tears of the Crocodile,” and it represents her first exhibition in Spain. McGrath’s work is dark, morbid, bizarre, surreal, and very creepy but at the same time she manages to infuse her dioramas, phantasmagorical creations, and faux taxidermy a certain humanity. I’m talking about a horror-movie type of humanity, as when you feel sad for Frankenstein when he is attacked by the mob. ‘Tears of the Crocodile,’ runs through November 23 at the Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona.  Los Angeles born self-taught artist Liz McGrath has always had an eye for the strange beauty in the grotesqueries of life, an appreciation nowhere more evident than in her new works. Inspired by the constant exposure to modern man's disassociation between nature and nurture, her new pieces are tangible expressions of the gap between emotion and action. Taking the aphorism Crocodile tears to a new level, these pieces poignantly capture the result of man's willingness to trade sincerity for culturally proscribed happiness.
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