Tania Blanco "Traces of the Sacred"

Blanco is a collage and mixed media artist from Naperville. She has served as the President and Vice President of the Midwest Collage Society since 2003.

In this exhibit, she is sharing artworks that bring you into her personal visionary space. In this space, she offers up a refuge for spiritual reflection.

“The current exhibit of my work spans a 10-year period of creating collage and acrylic paintings and reflects this philosophy.  My work frequently addressed spiritual symbols and themes, and my personal places are natural settings like parks, arboretums, sanctuaries for animals, or at an ocean beach, when the sun rises or sets and where I take meditative walks. I have included sacred symbols in each of the paintings in the current exhibit: mandalas, labyrinths, temples, Buddha images, figures on a spiritual journey and peaceful landscapes. Some of the paintings in this collection are abstract and the sacred may not be obvious to the viewer, but each was inspired by meditation or by the contemplation of some sacred space. For me, the process of creating art is often akin to a type of evolving prayer in which layer upon layer unfolds. My hope is that each visitor who sees my exhibit finds some image that invites a personal and peaceful Reflection.”

On Saturday, March 2, 2019, from 4 PM to 7 PM there will be a free reception for the public to meet and discuss the artist’s work with her.