Liz Rundorff Smith (b. 1977, Greenville, PA) 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. Rundorff Smith studied abroad at The Marchutz School of Painting in Aix en Provence, France and the British Institute of Florence in Florence, Italy and was awarded a fellowship and residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. 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. Rundorff Smith is a member of the Painting Center Art File in New York. Her work has been featured in Southern Living, TOWN Carolina, Talk, Vessel and Create Magazine Issue 20. Recent exhibitions include the two-person exhibit But We've Come So Far at Susan Eley Fine Art New York, NY, The Shape of Things at 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, SC, Coined in the South: 2022 at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC and The Architecture of Everything at James May Gallery, Milwaukee, WI. She is represented by Art & Light Gallery in Greenville, SC, Susan Eley Fine Art in Hudson, NY, and Midnight Gallery in Cincinnati, OH.
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.
