Daniel attended the PRATT institute in Brooklyn, New York and spent summers at the Figurative Institute in Manhattan where he studied classic panting and drawing techniques.
Since moving out to Santa Barbara in 2000, he has shown at the Bottoms Gallery, CC Galleries on Catalina Island, Contemporary Arts Forum, Faulkner Gallery with the Santa Barbara Sculptors Guild and Yuliya Lennon Art Studio and Gallery.
Daniel works in a variety of mediums, from traditional oil paint on canvas and clay to found objects like old railroad nails, drift wood, bone and stone. Many of his pieces are assemblages of multiple media, carefully selected to tell the story of the piece. Starting from figurative reality, his pieces transcend into a world of myths and legends, and physical likeness becomes archetypes of the past which are still valid to day.
Daniel is able to employ multiple contrasts in texture as well as harness the elemental powers of water, earth, fire and wind, from the sculpture of Prometheus which mounts onto a fire pit, to a piece called Spring which floats in water. He says that these endless experiments with materials and means of expression are driven by the desire to understand what lies below the surface, where the power comes from.
Currently he is assisting his mentor Story Kornbluth in a figure sculpting class at the Schott Center and teaches independent figure sculpting classes at the Yuliya Lennon Art Studio and Gallery.
Daniel Elmer Landman
