Liz Rodda (b. CA, lives/works in Austin, TX) moves between diverse media to examine forces surrounding the contemporary body. Her videos are the result of investing found and recorded images with unintended meanings through contextual shifts. At the center of her objects is a preoccupation with materials that our bodies absorb and translate. Her paintings suggest the language of video editing (cuts and fades) in which the figure is hidden or appears as an accidental outgrowth of the physical act of painting.
Rodda’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, FL; Ditch Projects, OR; Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX; David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX and others. Her videos have been screened internationally at institutions such as Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL and Medellin Modern Art Museum, Medellín, Colombia. Rodda has been an artist-in-residence at Fountainhead, Miami, FL; Wassaic, NY; Millay Arts, NY; La Napoule Art Foundation in Mandelieu-La-Napoule, France, and other programs. She is a co-programmer for Experimental Response Cinema, an Austin-based film/video screening series, and a professor at the School of Art & Design at Texas State University, where she founded and heads the Expanded Media area.
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