Instagram: @liznurenberg

A focus in my practice is human connection. I am deeply interested in how the sense of touch, the physicality of the body, and the presence and absence of our awareness affect our relationships and our physical experience. ​​

I am an artist, teacher, mother, partner, and a person living with Hairy Cell Leukemia. Each one of these labels creates a different facet that informs my understanding of connection. My work is multimedia, bridging sculpture, performance, and video to explore themes of attachment, relations, and personal space.  Many of my sculptural works are participatory, bodies are integral to the sculptural outcome. 
 
Whether through technology or gesture, we engage in many of our social interactions with our hands. My hand pieces explore the intimacy we have with objects. They are hand holds and many are molds or use casts of my hands or fingers. They suggest ambiguous function and reference ergonomic form.

The multi-person pieces, furniture, act as props that connect people through proximity and activity. They create social spaces for interaction and communication.

The Elements series utilizes performance and video to explore the vulnerability of the body and negotiations of care. 
 
I am interested in embodied knowledge and how that relates to the objects we touch. Inspiration is taken from the design of everyday things, furniture, tools, and apparatus. The work facilitates moments that move between comfort and discomfort as one explores the trace and impression of interaction.