This exhibition was a two-person collaborative project developed jointly with Kathleen McShane.
Awkward
Arts & Lit Lab
In Awkward, Kathleen McShane and Liz Rodda question and nudge form through material processes. Working from reconfigured vocabularies, each artist generates objects and images in which narratives appear constructed, buried, uncovered, and left unresolved—held in states of tension and ambivalence. Collaborative works include poster-scale photographs of drawings arranged in sculptural configurations, further complicating distinctions between image and object.
Collectively, Awkward operates as a loose constellation of the familiar and unfamiliar, forming a series of vignettes that dislodge objects and images from stable conventions. Rather than resolving these disjunctions, the exhibition embraces awkwardness as a productive condition.