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, and materials-sometimes paper in process- that can embody a perpetual state of becoming. Kris also references the concept of change and movement with circles, vertical lines, and spirals, in relationship to the horizontal ground. Seasons or tides reference timelines.
The installation art, sculptures, and printmaking evoke things ephemeral, in-transition, moving, and transforming. Her work is more experiential than commercial. Her interest in nature and practice of qigong inform her thinking and perspective.
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 Deer Isle ME, an invitation from Ethelyn Honig for solo exhibition at 55 Mercer Street Gallery in SoHo NY, and a Printmaking Residency at The Art Center in Dover NH. Her installation art projects have appeared locally starting years ago with artstream gallery in Rochester NH, then in recent years at Bedrock Gardens in Lee NH, Long Sands Beach in York ME, Barn Gallery in Ogunquit ME, and at Ceres Bakery in Portsmouth NH. Presently, Kris is writing a book about universal themes centered around a creative perspective and willingness to adapt to new circumstances.