September 14 - November 24, 2024
From Jonathan Hopson:
“The Hand is Pinker Than the Eye features new paintings by Liz Rodda shown alongside altered sheets of violet Foamular, the familiar building material featuring the Pink Panther cartoon character from 1960s American films and shorts. In this exhibition, both the paintings and Foamular bear abstracted marks— some deliberate and others inadvertent (i.e. dragging the foam across the studio floor).The Foamular logo recalls the pink panther diamond which earned its name due to a flaw at its center which, when viewed closely, is said to resemble a leaping panther.
This plot device of finding a flaw refracted in the facets of a pink diamond is an apt metaphor for painting. Like diamonds, painting carries with it centuries of cultural valuation that reflects back our collective mishaps to the viewer upon looking. With an artistic practice conceptualized mostly in film, Rodda’s paintings are remarkable gestures establishing non-hierarchical relationships between materials, marks, and resulting images, “My practice is about the act of looking. In The Hand is Pinker Than the Eye, flaws produce images to be considered alongside deliberate marks.”
Liz Rodda (b. Sacramento, CA; lives Austin, TX) is an artist and Professor at Texas State University, School of Art & Design. Rodda’s videos, sculptures, paintings, and installations have been exhibited and screened at organizations such as the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL; FotoFest Biennial, Houston, TX; Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR and Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY. She has been an artist-in-residence at institutions such as Fountainhead, Miami, FL; Wassaic, NY; Millay Arts, NY; and La Napoule Art Foundation in Mandelieu-La-Napoule, France. Rodda is also a co-programmer for Experimental Response Cinema, an Austin-based video screening series.”
Reception: September 14, 2024 | 4–7 pm
904 Marshall St.
Houston, 77006 Texas
832.819.2918
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