Bronze—Liz Rodda
Dimensions Variable (DV) presents a solo project titled “Bronze” by Liz Rodda. The exhibition opens on May 31 and runs through September 21, 2025 in the Corridor Gallery.
In “Bronze”, Liz Rodda employs diverse media to reflect on our physical relationship to the sun and materials surrounding the contemporary body. In “Rubbings,” she treats large sheets of paper with self-tanning solutions and uses drawing sticks to record the textures of household objects, such as credit cards and combs. “Jacuzzi” includes a found video of a showroom spa cycling through its jet speeds and light features, devoid of bodies to experience the relaxing sensations. “Transfer”, a video of a sunset from a train window, is reflected off Rodda’s laptop screen and covered in her fingerprints, distorting and blurring the picture. “Bronze” builds off Rodda’s long-standing exploration of the relationships between bodily presence, transference, and image circulation.
Liz Rodda
Liz Rodda (born CA, lives and works in Austin, TX) moves between diverse media to examine relationships between bodily presence and the economy of image circulation. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at venues such as the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, FL; Ditch Projects, OR; Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX; and David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX. Her videos have been screened internationally at institutions including Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL; and Medellín Modern Art Museum, Medellín, Colombia. Rodda has participated in artist-in-residence programs such as Fountainhead, Miami, FL; Wassaic, NY; Millay Arts, NY; and La Napoule Art Foundation in Mandelieu-La-Napoule, France. Rodda co-programs Experimental Response Cinema, an Austin-based film/video art screening series, and is a professor at the School of Art & Design at Texas State University, where she founded and heads the Expanded Media area.
