Capital City Arts Initiative

Click here to read. Chris Lanier, professor of digital art at Sierra Nevada University, wrote the exhibition essay, — drawing, — sensual, — intellectual, for Phyllis Shafer: Figure Studies. It will be available as a handout in the gallery during the exhibit. Working in digital animation, web production, and comics, Lanier said he enjoyed producing hybrid forms. His animations have screened at Sundance film festival, and he won the Grand Prize for Internet Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. His art criticism essays have appeared in numerous online and print publications, including The Believer, Comics Journal, HiLobrow, Furtherfield, Rhizome, and the San Francisco Chronicle.