Natural and Cultural Heritage Green Belt: Photography Exhibition
Natural and Cultural Heritage Green Belt / Natur- und Kulturerbe Grünes Band / Přírodní a kulturní dědictví Zelený pás
June 26 - September 3, 2020 | Centrum Bavaria Bohemia (CeBB), Schönsee, Germany
November 8, 2020 - March 15, 2021 | Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
The Green Belt photography exhibition celebrates nature and culture along the former Iron Curtain between Bavaria and Czechia, today's European Green Belt nature preserve. One hundred fifty photographs by 60 photographers were selected by a distinguished jury. Organized and first presented by the Centrum Bavaria Bohemia in Schönsee/Germany, the exhibition also traveled to the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus / Cultural Center of the Upper Palatinate as official program of Schwandorf Kulturstadt Bayern Böhmen 2020/21 / Schwandorf Cultural City Bavaria Bohemia 2020/21. The exhibition features two photographs by Christina Lanzl.
The project was funded by the German-Czech Future Fund and the County of Schwandorf.
June 26 - September 3, 2020 | Centrum Bavaria Bohemia (CeBB), Schönsee, Germany
November 8, 2020 - March 15, 2021 | Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
The Green Belt photography exhibition celebrates nature and culture along the former Iron Curtain between Bavaria and Czechia, today's European Green Belt nature preserve. One hundred fifty photographs by 60 photographers were selected by a distinguished jury. Organized and first presented by the Centrum Bavaria Bohemia in Schönsee/Germany, the exhibition also traveled to the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus / Cultural Center of the Upper Palatinate as official program of Schwandorf Kulturstadt Bayern Böhmen 2020/21 / Schwandorf Cultural City Bavaria Bohemia 2020/21. The exhibition features two photographs by Christina Lanzl.
The project was funded by the German-Czech Future Fund and the County of Schwandorf.
40th Annual Fort Point Open Studios
Sat & Sun, October 19 & 20, 2019 | 12-6 p.m. 300 Summer St., Studio 23-2nd Floor | Boston MA Ongoing work of Christina Lanzl and the Urban Culture Institute in a showcase of works in metal, paintings, public art and placemaking projects as well as publications. Sunday, October 20 | 4:30 p.m. Richard Bertman: The Sculptures Book talk / signing: Learn more about the synergy of art and architecture in the new book by Christina Lanzl during a conversation with Richard Bertman, artist, architect and co-founder of CBT Architects. Open Studios brings people together to celebrate art and culture as it is created in Fort Point. During Open Studios FPAC artists welcome Boston area residents, as well as visitors from afar, into our spaces for a casual (informal) weekend of experiencing art, growing friendships and enjoying all our neighborhood has to offer. Free parking off A Street in Boston's Fort Point. Public transportation: South Station & Silver Line Court House Station. |
The Gallery at 35 Channel Center in Boston's historic Fort Point presents a solo exhibition of works in metal by Christina Lanzl from May 6 through July 31, 2019. The entire universe consists of relationships. The work in this exhibition explores relationships between abstraction and figuration, people, form and materials. For inquiries or to schedule an appointment please call 617.319.9383 or email christina.lanzl@urbancultureinstitute.org.
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Tailor-Made
The Tailor-Made series of metal reliefs are an homage to my parents. My father, a trained tailor, worked in the fashion industry and my mother taught me how to sew. My process employs the tailor's approach of taking measure, making a pattern, choosing the "fabrics", transferring the pattern to the material, cutting and then assembling the parts. Various metals are used to vary color and texture. My "seams" are made with tacks and the backgrounds are "quilted". A craftsman with a keen eye and a knack for improvisation, my father taught me the concept of abstraction when I was in first grade. I continue honing my own craftsmanship. Spatial Constructions My Spatial Constructions are a series of small works on embossed aluminum. They are studies in geometry, often featuring “impossible figures”—spaces that can be drawn but cannot exist in reality. They are a creative continuum that exists in the void between right and wrong, holding the viewer captive, while radiating light and disquieting beauty. These works celebrate the quality of the handmade in our age of mass-production and automation. This ongoing series of “drawings” is inspired by the Structural Constellations and Embossed Linear Constructions of Josef Albers. While Albers was drawing at the drafting table, technological advances since the 1950s enable me use software in the design process. Perhaps, the master would have enjoyed having access to the technology of the late 20th century, himself. I myself am delighted to be able to work with Illustrator software in the creative process and as a tool. Christina Lanzl, Spring 2019 |
Full Spectrum Exhibition at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
April 20 - August 18, 2019
Opening Reception: Monday April 22, 2019 | 6-8pm
This exhibition is part of the MCCA’s series of neighborhood exhibitions which celebrate the work of artists across Boston’s varied cityscapes, one neighborhood at a time. The BCEC is excited to present this exhibition featuring artists who work in nearby Fort Point. In the heart of the seaport, Fort Point is home to a multitude of historic warehouse buildings, artist studios, arts spaces, and galleries that have contributed to this thriving neighborhood for years. The artists in this exhibition do not shy away from color or scale, providing a full spectrum of vibrant imagery and textures that the viewer can engage with, both from afar and up close. Featured artists are Dirk Ahlgrim, Jamie Calderwood, Becky Dwyer, Jennie Griffith, Joanne Kaliontzis, Christina Lanzl, Helen Lee, Stephen McMillan, Kevin O'Brien, Brian Sage, José Santos, Darcy Schultz, Casey Stanberry, Mark Stock and Christine Vaillancourt.
Christina Lanzl is featured with her a large painting in mixed media, Native Images: Buffalo, part of a series on our Native American heritage. Native American culture is mostly hidden from view. The artist cherishes its wisdom and the stories setting the tone and underlining the insight that creation and creativity are closely linked. Her Native Images series of paintings is an homage and a reminder to honor the Earth and to treat all Creation gently and with respect. She has been fortunate to meet tribal elders and some artists in the course of a Native American memorial initiative and while traveling.
Native American Creation Myth (Iroquois)
Long before the world was created there was an island, floating in the sky, upon which the Sky People lived. They lived quietly and happily. No one ever died or was born or experienced sadness. However, one day one of the Sky Women realized she was going to give birth to twins. She told her husband, who flew into a rage. In the center of the island there was a tree which gave light to the entire island since the sun hadn't been created yet. He tore up this tree, creating a huge hole in the middle of the island. Curiously, the woman peered into the hole. Far below she could see the waters that covered the earth. At that moment her husband pushed her. She fell through the hole, tumbling towards the waters below.
Water animals already existed on the earth, so far below the floating island two birds saw the Sky Woman fall. Just before she reached the waters, they caught her on their backs and brought her to the other animals. Determined to help the woman they dove into the water to get mud from the bottom of the seas. One after another the animals tried and failed. Finally, Little Toad tried and when he reappeared his mouth was full of mud. The animals took it and spread it on the back of Big Turtle. The mud began to grow and grow and grow until it became the size of North America.
Then the woman stepped onto the land. She sprinkled dust into the air and created stars. Then she created the moon and sun.
The Sky Woman gave birth to twin sons. She named one Sapling. He grew to be kind and gentle. She named the other Flint and his heart was as cold as his name. They grew quickly and began filling the earth with their creations.
Sapling created what is good. He made animals that are useful to humans. He made rivers that went two ways and into these he put fish without bones. He made plants that people could eat easily. If he was able to do all the work himself there would be no suffering.
Flint destroyed much of Sapling's work and created all that is bad. He made the rivers flow only in one direction. He put bones in fish and thorns on berry bushes. He created winter, but Sapling gave it life so that it could move to give way to Spring. He created monsters which his brother drove beneath the Earth.
Eventually Sapling and Flint decided to fight till one conquered the other. Neither was able to win at first, but finally Flint was beaten. Because he was a god Flint could not die, so he was forced to live on Big Turtle's back. Occasionally his anger is felt in the form of a volcano.
The Iroquois people hold a great respect for all animals. This is mirrored in their creation myth by the role the animals play. Without the animals' help the Sky Woman may have sunk to the bottom of the sea and earth may not have been created. Source: www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_12
Opening Reception: Monday April 22, 2019 | 6-8pm
This exhibition is part of the MCCA’s series of neighborhood exhibitions which celebrate the work of artists across Boston’s varied cityscapes, one neighborhood at a time. The BCEC is excited to present this exhibition featuring artists who work in nearby Fort Point. In the heart of the seaport, Fort Point is home to a multitude of historic warehouse buildings, artist studios, arts spaces, and galleries that have contributed to this thriving neighborhood for years. The artists in this exhibition do not shy away from color or scale, providing a full spectrum of vibrant imagery and textures that the viewer can engage with, both from afar and up close. Featured artists are Dirk Ahlgrim, Jamie Calderwood, Becky Dwyer, Jennie Griffith, Joanne Kaliontzis, Christina Lanzl, Helen Lee, Stephen McMillan, Kevin O'Brien, Brian Sage, José Santos, Darcy Schultz, Casey Stanberry, Mark Stock and Christine Vaillancourt.
Christina Lanzl is featured with her a large painting in mixed media, Native Images: Buffalo, part of a series on our Native American heritage. Native American culture is mostly hidden from view. The artist cherishes its wisdom and the stories setting the tone and underlining the insight that creation and creativity are closely linked. Her Native Images series of paintings is an homage and a reminder to honor the Earth and to treat all Creation gently and with respect. She has been fortunate to meet tribal elders and some artists in the course of a Native American memorial initiative and while traveling.
Native American Creation Myth (Iroquois)
Long before the world was created there was an island, floating in the sky, upon which the Sky People lived. They lived quietly and happily. No one ever died or was born or experienced sadness. However, one day one of the Sky Women realized she was going to give birth to twins. She told her husband, who flew into a rage. In the center of the island there was a tree which gave light to the entire island since the sun hadn't been created yet. He tore up this tree, creating a huge hole in the middle of the island. Curiously, the woman peered into the hole. Far below she could see the waters that covered the earth. At that moment her husband pushed her. She fell through the hole, tumbling towards the waters below.
Water animals already existed on the earth, so far below the floating island two birds saw the Sky Woman fall. Just before she reached the waters, they caught her on their backs and brought her to the other animals. Determined to help the woman they dove into the water to get mud from the bottom of the seas. One after another the animals tried and failed. Finally, Little Toad tried and when he reappeared his mouth was full of mud. The animals took it and spread it on the back of Big Turtle. The mud began to grow and grow and grow until it became the size of North America.
Then the woman stepped onto the land. She sprinkled dust into the air and created stars. Then she created the moon and sun.
The Sky Woman gave birth to twin sons. She named one Sapling. He grew to be kind and gentle. She named the other Flint and his heart was as cold as his name. They grew quickly and began filling the earth with their creations.
Sapling created what is good. He made animals that are useful to humans. He made rivers that went two ways and into these he put fish without bones. He made plants that people could eat easily. If he was able to do all the work himself there would be no suffering.
Flint destroyed much of Sapling's work and created all that is bad. He made the rivers flow only in one direction. He put bones in fish and thorns on berry bushes. He created winter, but Sapling gave it life so that it could move to give way to Spring. He created monsters which his brother drove beneath the Earth.
Eventually Sapling and Flint decided to fight till one conquered the other. Neither was able to win at first, but finally Flint was beaten. Because he was a god Flint could not die, so he was forced to live on Big Turtle's back. Occasionally his anger is felt in the form of a volcano.
The Iroquois people hold a great respect for all animals. This is mirrored in their creation myth by the role the animals play. Without the animals' help the Sky Woman may have sunk to the bottom of the sea and earth may not have been created. Source: www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_12
2017 Fort Point Arts Community Open Studios: Exhibitions and Studio 23 Workshop
The Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC) organizes the Annual Open Studios. Artists opened their live-work spaces in three historic warehouses for the 37th Annual Open Studios from Friday through Sunday, October 13-15, 2017.
The Fort Point Arts Community builds cultural vibrancy in Boston by cultivating an empowered community of artists, organizations, and supporters. FPAC promotes the work of our artists to a broad and diverse audience, advocates for art opportunities, develops permanent and affordable live-work studio space, and ensures that art is an essential part of the life of a creative city. FPAC introduced the open studio concept as the first arts community in the United States in 1980. Visit the FPAC website to read the historic record by Don Eyles. |
Since Fort Point artists are unable to visit each other during Open Studios, the Studio Crawl was introduced as an opportunity to visit each other. Download the photo albums below, photographed by Dirk Ahlgrim.
249 A Street Artist Building | Studio Crawl | Tue., October 17, 2017 Studio Crawl Photo Album (11 MB) 300 Summer Street Artist Building | Studio Crawl | Wed., October 18, 2017 Studio Crawl Photo Album (11 MB) 300 Summer participants and order of visits: Herb Ziegler for Judy Ziegler (in memoriam), Lisa Damtoft, Dirk Ahlgrim, Jen Chin, Gustavo Soto-Rosa, Karen Clepper for Rob Reeps (in memoriam), Mario Kon, Jamie Bowman for Jennifer Moses, Meredith Morten, Carolyn Callahan, Dorothea Van Camp, Jeffrey Heyne and Christina Lanzl. David Polcaro hosted the after party. |
Radius: the Society of Arts and Crafts' Inaugural Exhibition at 100 Pier 4
The Society of Arts and Crafts, the oldest crafts non-profit in the United States, relocated to 100 Pier 4 in the Boston Seaport in fall 2016. The new space is three times as large as the previous building on Newbury Street. Christina Lanzl's work was featured in Radius, the Society of Arts and Crafts' inaugural exhibition, a celebration of the Society's new neighborhood's talented makers who live or work within one mile of the new location. |
Projections! Art on the Brewery Walls
On the evening of May 14th, 2016 the Jamaica Plain Arts Council and Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation projected a sequence of artworks onto the outside walls of Jamaica Plain's Brewery Complex. A selection of Christina Lanzl's Spatial Constructions was included by the jury, comprised of Abigail Norman, director of the Eliot School; Robert Siegelman, School of the Museum of Fine Arts faculty, and Morris Norvin, partner of Stonybrook Fine Arts. |
String Games / Fadenspiele
Galerie vor Ort solo exhibition, Vienna/Austria
What moves us? What is essential? What inspires us? How do I/we experience places, space and time? Through her artwork Christina Lanzl explores identity. Having a vision continues to be important. Even as a child she was fascinated by hidden images and painting by numbers. For a number of years she has been working with impossible figures: geometric figures, which can be drawn but not built in three-dimensional space because of inherent “mistakes”. Christina's fascination with the impossible is undiminished. |
With String Games / Fadenspiele Christina created spatial constructions of impossible figures, to be experienced as networks, webs, connections and separations in space. Interpretations are wide-ranging and in the eye of the beholder. The present is while the future remains vague. Relationships develop and are dissolved ON-SITE / VOR ORT.
Acknowledgments: Galerie vor Ort Vienna/Austria, Ernst Gomringer: Concrete Poetry, Bruno Ernst: Impossible Figures, Josef Albers, and the many others who remain unnamed. |