Liz Rundorff Smith

Liz Rundorff Smith draws inspiration from everyday motifs that are often overlooked like architectural lines, street signs, weeds growing through cracks in pavement, graffiti, plastic fences, and dumpsters. Her oil on panel and mixed media encaustic work brings personal experience to the familiar forms of minimalism while undermining the notion of aesthetic autonomy. Rundorff Smith questions the unique object by intentionally mimicking the same forms repeatedly, attempting to reproduce the original while allowing imperfection and a lack of precision to create work that exploits the failure in repetition. The reductive form is a means for conveying both the emotional and physical experience of space.

Liz Rundorff Smith received a BA in Studio Art from the College of Wooster in Wooster, OH in 2000. She also studied abroad at The Marchutz School of Painting in Aix en Provence, France and The British Institute of Florence in Florence, Italy. In December of 2005, Rundorff Smith received an MFA in Painting from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. In 2006 she was awarded a fellowship and residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. Rundorff Smith currently lives in Greenville, SC where she is both Art Scho...

MFA in Painting, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA, December 2005.

Study Abroad, The British Institute of Florence, Florence, Italy, May 2004.

BA in Studio Art, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, 2000.

Study Abroad, The Marchutz School of Painting, Aix en Provence, France, August - December 1998.

2020
TWO PERSON EXHIBITION: Liz Rundorff Smith & Lisa Fellerson, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY, September 17 - October 22, 2020.

ENSEMBLE: TOGETHER AGAIN (Virtual Exhibition), The Painting Center, New York, NY, August 5 - September 5, 2020.

RESPITE AND RENEWAL: INSIDE AND OUT, Susan Eley Fine Art, Online Exhibition, March31 - April 28, 2020.

SMALL WORKS, James May Gallery, Online Exhibition, March 23 - June 30, 2020.

THE SHAPE OF THINGS, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC, January 16 - March 1,

2019
NEW OPTICS, The Painting Center, New York, NY, January 2 - 25, 2020.
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BE. LONG. I Like Your Work Podcast Juried Exhibition, Co-curated by Mychaelyn Michalec, David Linneweh & Erika B. Hess, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH. November 1-24, 2019.
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WAX: CONTEMPORARY METHODS, Peninsula School of Art, Guenzel Gallery, Fish Creek, WI. October 11 - November 29, 2019.
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SOMATIC SHAPE, James May Gallery, Algoma, WI. September 5 - October 1, 2019.
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REVEAL International Contemporary Art Fair, Saratoga Springs, NY, July 18 - 21, 2019.
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ON THE ROCKS, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY. June 26 – A

2018
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Expo Center, Brooklyn, NY, November 8 - 11, 2018

SURFACE EXCHANGE (two-...