About
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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. His paintings are represented by Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, TX and On Center Gallery in Provincetown, MA. He lives in Austin with his wife and three kids, and teaches animation classes at The University of Texas.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
To me the still life feels like a stable, relatively neutral foundation on which to explore stylistic variations of the basic elements of design: color, form, texture, compositional layout, etc. Through such exploration I have found that I am drawn to bright, bold imagery that explodes to fill the canvas. The results are often more reminiscent of monstrous figures, fireworks displays, or battle scenes than static arrangements of fruits and flowers.
The Dutch Baroque painters of still life frequently included insects as symbolic elements. I, too, like to paint tiny creatures. Mine are usually imaginary, sometimes grotesque exaggerations of actual insects injecting an element of surprise and subversion. They act as a kind of counterbalance or foil to the elegance of the florae.
The titles I choose are often bombastic and overwrought, partly to diffuse the formality inherent in the genre, but they also add an additional layer of meaning. I’ve always loved what James Rosenquist does with his painting titles.
PAINTING EXHIBITIONS
2023 Solo Show, How to be Meaningless in an Okay World, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, TX
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.