Tania Metalli was born in Rome, Italy, a city drenched in art, iconography, and monumental architecture. Each of these particularly Roman qualities can be seen in her fantastical paintings of brooding, statuesque figures. Metalli’s distinctive faces are rendered as graceful masks while hard-edged, geometric configurations saturate the figures, isolated from context with backgrounds of flat, bold color. "I consider my art a mirror that reflects images from my inner world,” she explains. “Through my work I'm able to explore that world and bring back pictures of symbols and of the creatures that inhabit it.”