M P Landis, Brooklyn studio, April 2009

M.P. Landis lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His current work is a palimpsest of the processes, materials and emotions of his existence. He has collaborated with musician Tom Abbs, visual artists Michael Sanzone and Les Seifer, poets Nick Flynn and Fred Schmalz, and others.
Landis has taught at the summer workshop program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. He is the Creative Consultant for the mentoring program Project Eye-To-Eye, and is Art Director at ESP-Disk' Records. He regularly exhibits at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA; m55 Art in Long Island City, Queens, NY; and with the international traveling artists' group VERN.  His work is represented in many private and public collections, including the New York Public Library, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the DeCordova Museum, the Naples Museum of Art, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Before moving to Brooklyn in 1996, he lived year-round in Provincetown, MA, and spent his childhood traveling around the world with his Mennonite missionary parents. He is the father of a baby daughter, Beulah Rose, born in February 2009.