Liz Nofziger: Flail

A site-responsive work for Frame 301 as part of In•Animate Objects by Liz Nofziger concurrently on view in the Founders Gallery at 248 Cabot Street.

Resurrected on the half hour, the contained Air Dancers® frantically seek both connection and escape while serving as an absurd timepiece. The tragi-comic efforts of these yellow beacons are partnered with the constant flutter of their common partner pennant flags, encompassing the facade in a desperate cry for attention, advertising nothing but the act of looking.

Liz Nofziger was born in Indianapolis in 1974 and grew up in a small Mennonite community in southern Indiana. Her site-specific installation work examines relationships to space within the physical, architectural, political, and pop-cultural landscape. Employing a broad range of media including sculptural elements, video, light, audio, and text, viewer investigation completes her work.

Nofziger currently has a small site-specific sculpture and audio piece tucked away in Beverly, MA on Powder House Lane, and is part of Alpha-60, a sci-fi inspired augmented reality exhibition that’s animating the Emerald Necklace from Franklin Park to the Fenway. She has had solo exhibitions at Galéria Ateneo (Medellin, Colombia), the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago (Chicago, IL), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Kult 41 (Bonn, Germany), the Contemporary Artists Center (North Adams, MA), and Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA), among others.

Nofziger earned her MFA at Massachusetts College of Art, where she taught for many years. She currently teaches at Montserrat College of Art. Since 2018, she has been living, working, and finding community on the North Shore.