What Happens Before You Die? was a collaborative site-specific installation and performance with Sommer Browning at 1122 Gallery in Portland, OR in August of 2025. It was born out of a two week text exchange of questions that explored everyday and intimate experiences of being in a body that is a shelter for thoughts and feelings. It was a conversation in questions without spoken or written answers.
These paintings were made while in the throes of loss, grief, hope, and fertility treatment. They hung in my child’s room when she was a baby. I think of them as bodily forms that hold something, or want to hold something.
Pregnant Pause was part of a small group exhibition in 2018 at Georgia Art Space in Denver, CO entitled The Gendered Senses, curated by Ally Leedy.
These works were part of a two-person show with Abbie Miller at 1122 Gallery in Portland, OR in 2018. The title is inspired by a sculpture by the Brazilian artist, Lygia Clark, and by the poet, Jennifer Denrow. Denrow is also co-founder of 1122. The wearable painting-object is a collaboration between Rodenborn and Miller.
This installation was made in response to a poem by Julie Carr. It is part of an expansive collaboration with several artists and writers that Carr created as a parallel project to her book, Real Life: An Installation
Each of these small works on paper with text are dusted with flock over iridescent acrylic.
For Lease was a group exhibition organized by Shayna Cohn in Denver, CO in 2017 in an empty warehouse. All of the works in the show included a lighting component because the building itself did not have lighting.
All of the small painting-objects in this series are on wood panels with acrylic and canvas or suede.
this is a picture of is the title of an exhibition of this body of work at Vertigo Art Space in Denver, CO in 2015.
Many of these loosely stretched painting-objects were shown at Blackbox Gallery in Austin, TX in a solo exhibition in 2013. Others were a part of various group exhibitions.
In this body of work, the linen is stretched beyond the bars and tacked directly to the wall. Several of these paintings were exhibited in various group shows in Austin and Houston in 2013.
This series was made using canvas couch covers as the painting surface. The stretcher bars are placed inside each painting-object and they rest on the floor in various configurations. They were exhibited together two times as a whole in 2011, at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, TX and at Texas State University in San Marcos.
These works vary in scale, material, form and story. They cross over the years and do not belong to one body. Most of them do not exist anymore or have become something else. What brings them together is that the support and the surface are one in the same.
This is the documentation of an ephemeral body of work -- drawings on the body. For one year, one drawing was made every month.
A smattering of works on paper, mostly collage with acrylic and canvas, some with dirt and spray paint. As a category, the documentation here is far from complete.
