Tania Landers Exhibitions

Meet the Folks

October 11 - November 9, 2018

Featuring John Bruce, Laura Carnagie and Tania Landers

Tania Landers

“The brush is boss and I obey.”

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, self-taught artist Tania Landers finds her Polynesian heritage instinctively inspires her art. Her fearless use of bold color combinations and detailed patterns are reminiscent of her lush homeland and intricate carvings of the tiki. Acrylics and ink provides the perfect medium to express this creativity. Her paintings are spontaneous, intuitive and she often says, “The brush is boss and I obey.”

Rarely does she plan a piece, it starts with the first brush stroke and gradually the image unfolds. She becomes the medium’s medium.

Ancestral Artisans

Tania’s artistic tutelage came under the guidance of her talented parents. Her father a musician and engineer and mother, a singer and dancer, music and art was a daily ritual. From a very young age, she was designing, weaving and creating costumes, choreographing dance routines and painting props for her family’s Polynesian performing group. This creative legacy stems from generations of ancestral artisans who passed on their history through storytelling, songs and dance, tatau (tattoo) designs, feathers and flowers woven into ceremonial wear. Polynesian art holds deep spiritual symbolism with connections to nature and the gods. You will find the swirls of the “koru” fern, the angular patterns of the “tapa” or bark cloth, and the detail of the “moko” (facial tattoo) throughout her art with a modern twist.

Walt Disney World, Vogue and Visions

Tania’s professional career started early, entertaining and traveling with her family. At 17, recruited by the Walt Disney World company, Tania performed with Disney’s Polynesian Review for the next 20 years. She has appeared on the pages of Vogue magazine, performed in various television specials and went on to be executive producer of “Visions” a community affairs television program in Orlando, Florida. Her career has spanned 30 years working with fellow artists from all professional backgrounds. Since moving to Oklahoma, her newfound passion is rocks. You can find Tania roaming the creeks and fields looking for
arrowheads, bits of pottery and much to her hubby’s dismay, another bag of rocks.

Exquisite Corpse Artist

In 2017, Tania was a featured artist at the AMP (Art Music Power) Festival in Oklahoma City which celebrates art and music created by women. In 2018 she is one of 60 artists selected to be part of Art Space at Untitled’s Exquisite Corpse Celebration and Auction.

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