Tania Figueroa
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Tania Figueroa was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She danced ballet most of her life and her love to dance was just the beginning of her interest in different art disciplines. At age 12, she started sneaking in art classes with her aunt and formally began drawing and painting studies at age 13 at the Liga de Arte del Viejo San Juan under Piero Rosatti’s instruction.
Piero Rosatti was her teacher for three years. She kept studying art until her second year of college when she decided to start studies in theater. 11 years ago, Tania started drawing and painting again, focusing the last five years in mixed media, sometimes using textiles, paper and sand to create different textures.
As of today, Tania lives in Clearwater, Fl. with her husband and she takes care of her father (89 yrs. old) and her dog.
Everything began at age 4 with my grandmother's lipstick, my hands and the hallway of dad's house in Puerto Rico. After that, a good cleaning session taught me that I can definitely use the hallway's walls as a display for my art but never used them as my substrate.
I consider myself a mixed media art explorer and student that constantly experiments and play with collages and layers of different mediums. In most of my artworks, crude and incomplete lines can be found, as well as raw areas where canvas, paper or wood are exposed, all this is created by seeking to achieve the exaltation of the imperfect and simplicity.
The whole creative process it is for me a cathartic and cleansing process that at the same time keeps me refueling my creativity. Using different gray-scales and values and the smoothness and roughness of the materials allows me to visually expose the different aspects and situations of life: the passionate, the introspective, the conflictive, the meditative, the empathetic, the philosophical and the spiritual. It is at the same time that all of them are part of my inherent need for knowledge and therefore my work is a constant research, always morphing and recreating itself.
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