About
“Kris Lanzer [makes art] about the “overlap” between “inner and outside worlds” and her pursuit of “creating a sense of harmony” in her installations. There’s the pull from the outside and its sensory stimuli and the “imagined landscape” she summons in the studio. Lanzer’s installations negotiate these tensions and indeed intervene in the urban environment, creating new experiences for the viewer. Interstitial areas and transitional moments are central to her work, which often has ritualized dimensions, exploring dichotomies such as public and private, city and nature, inside and outside, beginning and end, life and death.”
Véronique Plesch, editor, Maine Arts Journal, 2022
KRIS LANZER is a visual artist. She uses symbols and themes from nature that embody her perpetual state of becoming. Kris references the concept of movement with circles, vertical lines, and spirals, in relationship to the horizontal ground. Her installation art, sculptures, and printmaking evoke things ephemeral, in-transition, moving, and transforming. Her spiritual practice of qigong and study of Taoist texts inform her thinking.
Kris earned a BFA from UNH and MFA from SUNY Albany where she studied with art critic Ken Johnson and art scholar Roberta Bernstein. Kris has received awards and invitations for exhibitions and residencies including the Mary Beasom Bishop and Francis Sumner Merritt Scholarship for Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in ME, an invitation from Ethelyn Honig for solo exhibition at 55 Mercer Street Gallery in SoHo, and a Printmaking Residency at The Art Center in Dover, NH. Her installation art has appeared locally at Bedrock Gardens in Lee NH, Long Sands Beach in York ME, Barn Gallery in Ogunquit ME, and at Ceres Bakery in Portsmouth NH. For now, Kris is home writing a book and maintaining her roadside sculpture garden on Stark Avenue in Dover.