MEET
LIZ RUNDORFF SMITH
Liz Rundorff Smith received a BA in Studio Art with a concentration in sculpture from the College of Wooster in Wooster, OH in 2000 and an MFA in Painting from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections including the Marilyn Monroe Bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel and Sun City Showa Kien Koen, Tachikawa, Japan and has been featured in Southern Living, TOWN magazine, Talk magazine, Vessel and Create Magazine.
Where do you find inspiration?
I find inspiration in so many things . . . other artists, designers, having a great conversation, music, a good movie. I think abstraction is an excellent vehicle for funneling ideas into a visual language that is succinct. I’m especially interested in finding moments that are accidentally visually engaging. I love finding an interesting composition in something seemingly unplanned – like grass growing in a repetitive pattern in cracks in the pavement or the garden hose draping elegantly over an inflatable toy in the backyard.
- Liz Rundorff Smith
What do you hope people will take away from your work?
For a very long time, I’ve been interested in the experience of loss and my desire to express loss in visual form. My work in general is centered around the idea of memorial and a visual reference to the memory of a deeply personal experience. I love the intersection of the personal with the overtly public interaction one can experience when interacting with a memorial. I hope that people find something that feels familiar, but uncanny, in my work so that viewing the work creates an interaction that can be personalized.
- Liz Rundorff Smith
