The artwork by Kris Lanzer engages our tactile senses and invites personal introspection. She collects, arranges, and combines natural materials with factory made products by cutting, casting, weaving, wrapping, sewing, and gluing.
This active hands-on approach of art making is generated from several years of child play in the woods, lake, and basement in addition to many years of adult work at a pipe shed, bakery, flower shop, garden center, lab, and school…
Although there is an underlying sense of decay and loss in the work, there is also a sense of hope and possibility that encourages the sudden need to make, to play, and to be in the present.
Lanzer has a MFA degree from the University at Albany, SUNY, and a BFA degree from UNH in Durham. She resides in Dover, works in Portsmouth, and builds sculptures in her studio at the Salmon Falls Mill in Rollinsford.
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2000 Sculptures and Drawings, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1998-00 Below the Surface, installation of a 400’ hand-woven net,
The Rye Gourmet at Foyes Corner, Rye, NH
1996 Yellow Remains Constant, installation, Art Annex, Albany, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2003 Personal Icons, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH
2003 Rooted Uprooted, artstream gallery, Rochester, NH
2003 Outdoor Sculpture, Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Concord, NH
2003 The Factory Revealed, Cocheco Mills, Dover, NH
2003 The Artful Bikini, Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Concord, NH
2003 Baker’s Dozen Collage Exhibition, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2003 Love, Lust, and Lasciviousness, Salmon Falls Mill, Rollinsford, NH
2002 Day of the Dead, Salmon Falls Mill, Rollinsford, NH
2001 Stone Books, NAHCOTTA Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
1999 Small Works Exhibition, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Faculty Exhibition, Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, ME
1995 Works on Paper, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1995 Voice,Vision,Power: New Hampshire Women in the Arts,
Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
1991 Beyond the Surface: Portsmouth’s Emerging Artists,
Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
1990 Current Works, McGowan Fine Art Gallery, Concord, NH
EDUCATION:
1996 MFA, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
1986 BFA, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
1984 Lunnevads Folk School, Sjogestad, Sweden
AWARDS AND HONORS:
1998-02 Artist in Residence for Art All-State, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
1995 Mary B. Bishop & Francis S. Merritt Scholarship,
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
PUBLICATIONS:
2000 Blast 2000, vol. 1, Oct. 2000, a collaborative art zine,
Produced by Playtogetherprojects, New York, NY
1996 1996 Portsmouth Art Annual, a calendar featuring community artists and writers, produced by re:Ports, Portsmouth, NH
FACULTY AT LARGE:
1996-03 New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH, Brixham Montessori Friends School, York, ME, Dover Public Schools, Dover, NH, College for Lifelong Learning, Rochester and Portsmouth, NH, Upward Bound, Durham, NH
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Abeles, Sigmund, "On Becoming an Artist” The New Hampshire Alumnus, Vol. LXII, Spring 1986
Bachelder, Ross, "On Display”, Spotlight, 4/13/00
Macomber, Shawn, "2 Piece Show”, Foster’s Sunday Citizen, Arts and Leisure Section, 5/04/03
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