Tania Figueroa‘s painting Oronym, pictured above, was part of a group exhibition at The Werk Gallery in St. Pete, Florida, in April of 2023.
About the artwork from the artist-
Expressing a point of view feeling restricted. Throwing your truth only between the lines. Not being able to express your thoughts openly because of fear, pressure or prejudice. In that restriction, we feel trapped, we feel with two faces. The one the world wants to see and the genuine face.
Like an oronym.
You might hear one thing, but what is it really saying?
The artist is currently part of the three person exhibition, Between Worlds on view at The Studio @620, also in St. Pete. The other Florida artists included are Sketzii (Ketsy Ruiz) and Alexa Espinosa (ArttByLexx).
From the gallery-
In Between Worlds, artists Sketzii, ArttByLexx, and Tania Figueroa bring together layered narratives of memory, identity, and cultural connection. Their work moves across genres and materials—painting, digital illustration, and mixed media—to explore what it means to exist in the spaces between home and heritage, past and present, tradition and personal truth. Each artist offers a unique lens through which to view belonging, storytelling, and the way art creates meaning across generations.
Sketzii is a celebration of her Puerto Rican heritage and the experience of living within the Latinx diaspora. Her bold, vibrant compositions honor communities that are often overlooked—uplifting stories of cultural pride, displacement, and the longing for connection that spans across geography and time.
ArttByLexx’s practice centers on her connection to ancestry and the inward journey of self-discovery. Her practice embraces nature’s rhythms and emotional depth, creating intuitive pieces that blur boundaries between past and present. Through her exploration of joy, grief, and transformation, her art becomes a spiritual and reflective space.
Tania Figueroa brings a rich history of movement to her visual art practice. Trained in classical ballet and theater, her work now lives in the textures of mixed media—combining textiles, sand, and paper to evoke memory, place, and care. Her pieces draw on deep personal experience, blending the sensorial and the sacred to reflect both resilience and tenderness.
Together, their work maps a shared space between worlds—charting stories of belonging, resilience, and the quiet beauty found in complexity.
This Saturday, 5/31/25, there will be a reception held from 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM with an artist talk at 2:30 PM.