About
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Works available through Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, TX and On Center Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
Lance Myers has been a professional artist, writer, and animator for over twenty years. His traditional animation work can be seen in the feature films Space Jam, Anastasia, Quest for Camelot, Prince of Egypt, and Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly. His essays and comics have been published in the Austin American-Statesman, The Austin Chronicle, JINX, and Powerball Magazine. He has also written and directed short subject films for HBO, MTV, Adult Swim, PBS, and Canada's Movieola. He lives in Austin with his wife and three kids, and teaches animation classes at The University of Texas.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I have recently been alternating between still life and figurative painting.
To me the still life allows a stable, relatively neutral foundation on which to explore stylistic variations of the basic elements of design. Through such exploration I have found that I am drawn to bright, bold imagery that explodes to fill the canvas. Like the Dutch Baroque, I frequently include insects. Mine are usually imaginary, sometimes grotesque exaggerations of actual insects injecting an element of surprise and subversion.
The people in my work usually appear caught up in some private moment of reflection creating an intimate, almost voyeuristic connection between viewer and subject. This suspended stillness lends a contemplative sense of resolve to the composition and perhaps mirrors our own gaze as we look on.
The titles I choose are often bombastic and overwrought, partly to diffuse the formality inherent in the subject matter, but they also add an additional layer of meaning. I’ve always loved what James Rosenquist and Damien Hirst do with their titles.
PAINTING EXHIBITIONS
Jun 2025 Solo Show, Frequencies in the Static Bloom, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
Dec 2023 Solo Show, How to be Meaningless in an Okay World, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, TX
Dec 2019 Group Exhibition, Looks Good On Paper, Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2005 Group Exhibition, Mojo's Pop-Up Gallery, SXSW, Austin, TX
1999 Group Exhibition, West Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1998 Group Exhibition, Blue Star Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1998 Group Exhibition, Wong's Art Bar, San Antonio, TX
This site is dedicated to recent oil painting work. To view digital illustration and animation work by Lance Myers please visit his art station portfolio.