About
Liz Rudnick is an artist, curator, and creative strategist based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her bright, assertive artworks layer intuitive, chaotic gestures with deliberate choreography. She embraces both digital and analog image-making processes. Reoccurring themes include tangled weather, complex plant-life, and soft labyrinths. Rudnick’s work celebrates movement, taking formal cues from events such as a gust of wind through thick branches or the frenzied rush of a friend who can’t find their keys. Rudnick holds a BFA in painting from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and completed her graduate studies at Columbia University, New York City. She has exhibited with institutions including SilverEye Center for Photography, The Andy Warhol Museum, and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, among others. She is a member of Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Pro Arts Jersey City, where she served as VP of the board from 2020 - 2021. She currently serves on the boards of The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Bunker Projects.
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Liz Rudnick was born in 1989 in Herlev, Denmark.
She lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA.
EDUCATION
2020 Advanced Graduate Business Certification Columbia University
2012 BFA Carnegie Mellon University
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023
Platonic Solids, (____) BlankSpace, Pittsburgh, PA.
2021
RESILIENT: An Inclusive Art Show, curated by Liz Rudnick, Pro Arts Jersey City, Jersey City, NJ.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Near Heat, The Union Hall, Pittsburgh, PA. (Two person show with John Burt Sanders)
2017
Chaos Garden, The Union Hall, Pittsburgh, PA.
2016
Liquid Foundation, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA.
You're not real. I'm real, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Gallery 707, Pittsburgh, PA.
2015
Exposures:Treasure/Trash, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
2014
NO OUTLET, Spinning Plate Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
2011
Blue Light Special, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
PUSH, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
113 x 113, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2019
Artists Invite, Buster Levi Gallery, Coldspring, NY.
2018
PUBLIC AIR, Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA.
Expansion, Buster Levi Gallery, Cold Spring, NY.
2016
Nothing is Itself, The Mine Factory, Pittsburgh, PA.
Labor Defines, The Mine Factory, Pittsburgh, PA.
Crystal Vision, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA.
Over Time, Cindy Lisica Gallery, Houston, TX.
FTW! For the Win / Fare Thee Well, Revision Space, Pittsburgh, PA.
2015
Women Photographers in Pittsburgh, Framehouse Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
Screen Memories, Lawrence Hall Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
12×12, Modern Formations Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
2014
Close to Home, Silvereye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
AAP, Curated by Tom Sokolowski, The Mine Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
AAP, Most Wanted Fine Art, Homestead, PA
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Arts Exhibition,Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA
2013
Welcoming the Future, Honoring the Present: AAP New Members Show, 937 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Encompass, CAVO, Pittsburgh, PA
Lifeforms, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA; travels to The National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Terms and Conditions, The Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
London Exchange Drawing Exhibition, Uni. Arts London, London, UK
Here Hear, Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
2011
Pittsburgh Rising, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA
Remove//Transform, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Duality, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
Liar Liar, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2008
The Human Being, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2007
Paintings in the Park, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED WRITING/PUBLICATIONS
2021
Jersey City Arts Council. “RESILIENT: An Inclusive Art Show Curated by Liz Rudnick.” Web. <https://www.artsteps.com/view/60b6f9f7d8545017c587a369>.
Art House Productions. “ACCESS JC Fridays.” Web. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzj2UMa682o>
2017
Rudnick, Elizabeth. “Foreward.” PFF/PCA Emerging Artist of the Year, Haylee Ebersole. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2017. Print.
2016
Rudnick, Elizabeth. "Studio Visit: Elizabeth Rudnick." Interview by David
Bernabo. The Glassblock. 5-6. Web. <http://theglassblock.com/2016/05/0
6/studio-visit-elizabeth-rudnick/>
Shaw, Kurt. “You're Not Real, I'm Real.” Review, TribLIVE. 2-10, Arts and
Entertainment sec. Web. <http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande/9925048
74/rudnick-real-says>
2015
Rudnick, Elizabeth. “One’s trash is another’s treasure” Interview by
Brandy Langmann. PITT NEWS. 7-21, Arts and Entertainment sec.
Web.<http://m.pittnews.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_49135
d94-250a-11e5-85a8-a39c1228d21f.html?mode=jqm>.
Rudnick, Elizabeth. “Exposures: TREASURE/TRASH.” Warhol
Museum Web Log, 7-13. Web. <http://blog.warhol.org/exhibitions/
exposures-treasuretrash/>.
Rudnick, Elizabeth. “Something Missing, Something Hidden.”
Interview by Katie McGrath. Creative Nonfiction. Web.
<https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/something-miss
ing-something-hidden>.
Cover/Feature, Creative Nonfiction. Issue 55, Spring 2015.
2014
Shaw, Kurt. “Close to Home.” Review, TribLIVE. 10-5, Arts and Enter-
tainment sec. Web. <http://triblive.com/aande/museums/7083277-
74/says-reinhart-images#ixzz3IIiWPYmU>
Thomas, Mary. “Art Notes.” Review, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 10-22,
Arts and Entertainment sec. Web. <http://www.post gazette.com/ae/
art-architecture/2014/10/22/AAP-exhibition-at-The-Mine-Factory-is-
a-winner/stories/201410220006>
Keyster, Todd. “Selected Exhibition of AAP members curated by Tom
Sokolowski at the Mine Factory” Review, Pittsburgh Articulate. 10-20. Web. <http://pittsburgharticulate.com/2014/10/20/aaptoddkeyser/>