Michael McGrath lives and works in Rhinebeck, New York. Inspired by his Hudson Valley environment, he’s interested in the cults of mysticism, mythology, and religion through the lens of naivety. In McGrath’s work, ghosts and skulls symbolize death and the afterlife but with happiness and hope. “If there were gods, ghosts or magic, they would exist in nature and in the landscape; not just beings in the sky, but also in the ground, in the trees, in the flowers and in the animals,” he adds. McGrath has exhibited in Rhinebeck, New York, Germany, Belgium, and Beijing, among others.