M.P. Landis
M.P. Landis moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1996 after living in Provincetown, MA year-round for eight years. Since then, his work has become less dependent on the figure and more poetic and open. His current work is a palimpsest of direct inspiration such as music (often avant-garde jazz), poetry, nature, and the process and emotions of everyday experience. Collaboration is another significant component of Landis’s art. He has painted on stage with musicians, dancers, and poets from the New York jazz scene. His visual collaborations include projects and appearances with musicians Tom Abbs, Borah Bergman, Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, Steve Swell, Okkyung Lee, Marc Edwards, Sabir Mateen, and Roy Campbell. His paintings and photographs have been used for various CD releases and poetry books. He is also involved in ongoing collaborations via the U.S. Postal Service with visual artists Paul Bowen and Bert Yarborough and with poet Nick Flynn, among others.
Landis has taught at the summer workshop program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, is the Creative Consultant at Project Eye to Eye, and the Art Director at ESP-Disk’ Records. He regularly exhibits at the Schoolhouse Center in Provincetown, MA; m55 Art in Long Island City, NY; and with the international artists’ group VERN. His work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the DeCordova Museum, the New York Public Library, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Naples Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 M.P. Landis, Brooklyn 2002-2006, Infantree Gallery, Lancaster, PA
2007 Another, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Monk Work, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
2003 New Paintings, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Blue, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
2001 (One), Carlo Alessi, New York, NY
2000 New Paintings, TJ Walton Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Warehouse Drawings, Virgilio Sierra, New York, NY
1999 Studio, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1998 (Healing) Force, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1997 (Await), DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Rise, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1996 (Silence), Gallery 349, Provincetown, MA
1995 Moving, Gallery 349, Provincetown, MA
M.P. Landis, Provincetown Paintings: 1990-1995. Provincetown Art Association and Museum,
Provincetown, MA
1994 New Matter, Gallery Matrix, Provincetown, MA
1993 Painting Out Loud and a Series of Black Sheep, Gallery Matrix, Provincetown, MA
1992 One Big Question and a Little Jazz, Gallery Matrix, Provincetown, MA
1990 Words, Makeshift Salon, Provincetown, MA
General Delivery of a Sentence, Abattoir Gallery, Worcester, MA
RECENT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Group Exhibition, M55 Art, Long Island City, NY
PROCESS: exhibition in progress, curated by Kathryn Miriam, 532 Gallery, New York, NY
2007 The Studio Wall, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
VERN: Behind Closed Doors, The Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
2006 VERN: Inner Spaces/Outer Limits, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
TransFormal TransFormAll, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
VERN in HEAT, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
VERN: Free Transposition, Hamburg, GE
On Paper: Geraldine Cosentino, M. P. Landis, Daniele Robbiani
The New York Law School, New York, NY
Transvisual, The New York Law School, New York, NY
On Paper: Geraldine Cosentino, M. P. Landis, Daniele Robbiani
St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Archaeology: Josh Dorman and M.P. Landis, John Raimondi Gallery, Boston, MA
Jim Forsberg and M.P. Landis, Beauregard Fine Art, Rumson, NJ
Interjacent, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PaperAwesome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Show, Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
Mass Transit: Vision Festival X, Synagogue for the Arts Gallery, New York, NY
(recent selected group exhibitions continued)
Triage: Paul Bowen, M.P. Landis, and Bert Yarborough: Individual and Collaborative Work,
55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Three-Person Show, Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
SONYA, Robert Lehman Gallery at Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
M.P. Landis and Stoyko Sakaliev, Peng Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
VERN in the Mirror, Colectivo Espejo 5, Madrid, Spain
2003 Three: Paul Bowen, M.P. Landis, and Bert Yarborough: Individual and Collaborative Work,
Battelle Harding Gallery, Greenfield, MA
M.P. Landis and Marian Roth, Silas Kenyon Gallery, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
2003-1990 Various Juried Exhibitions, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2002 Group Exhibition, Silas Kenyon Gallery, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
Crossing Boundaries and Textures, Seventh Annual Vision Festival, The Center,
New York, NY
2001 Jim Forsberg and M.P. Landis, Robyn Watson Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Offspring, BHMS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Small Work, selected by Charlotta Kotik, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
LandEscape, Dieu Donné Paper Mill, New York, NY
Les Seifer and M.P. Landis, Carlo Alessi, New York, NY
Pier Show 8, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
Collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, National Arts Club,
New York, NY
Square Roots, curated by Ladd Spiegel, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Naples Museum of Art, permanent collection, Naples, FL
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
New York Public Library: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and
Photographs, New York, NY
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, permanent collection, Provincetown, MA