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Tania Alcala’s paintings are about finding the joy of being
and freedom within herself. Her work is about experiencing consciousness and
awareness with the seduction of color with her brush strokes.
Born and raised in Mexico City,
Tania obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Ottawa
University in Phoenix,
AZ and a Master’s degree in Transformative
Arts from John F.
Kennedy University
in Berkeley, CA.
The sense of the ethereal that Tania Alcala discovered in
the paintings of many artists like Mark Rothko, Yves Tanguy, and Eduardo Matta
inspired her to take up flying. She took
to the skies as a commercial pilot to seek the freedom she craved. While
aviation offers mobility and a “heavenly” view of the world, the exacting,
highly regimented aspects of that profession do not compare to the creative
outlet she achieves as an artist.
For Alcala, her passion for painting is the ultimate act of
freedom, allowing contradiction, intuition, risk and exhilaration to come into
play. Tania’s large atmospheric
pieces convey her deeply moving experiences from the skies along with her
lifelong fascination with color. These abstract expressionistic works of art
have an inner complexity, compellingly and sensuously immersing the viewer in a
uniquely personal way.
The resin finish on all Tania’s work is similar in nature to
the varnishes used by artists a century ago and acts like a mirror’s reflecting
surface, adding another dimension to this very 21st century
painter’s work.
“The purpose of art is
the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity” -Glenn
Gould
Modern Contemporary Art
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