A physicist’s first solo exhibit

Green Glass
Green Glass

RHODESA Uy Cruzet is a physicist who is a self-taught artist. She finished B.S. Biology in the University of the Philippines-Cebu, BS Physics in the University of San Carlos (USC), and Master of Science in Applied Physics, Major in Medical Physics from the University of Santo Tomas (UST). She is also working on a doctorate in physics in USC.

She explained that she loves to draw, since grade school, and she would enter painting contests. Her parents supported her by buying art materials she needed. When she studied in UST, she would study in the library for her master’s degree, but she would also read up on art. Now back in Cebu, she works in a hospital. Among her tasks is to make sure the right dose in radiation therapy would be administered.

After work, she finds time to paint, putting on canvas or paper what she wants to convey, what interests her and what she finds beautiful. She has come up with works worthy to be shown in the art exhibits of Cebu Artists Inc. (CAI).

Finally, CAI has put up 27 paintings of Cruzet for her first solo exhibit at Ayala Center Cebu, which has been very generous to the group in granting the artists space to show their works.

Cruzet’s paintings are not limited to one kind of medium. She uses all kinds of media, depending on how she feels her subject should be depicted. In the exhibit, she has six paintings using menso brush dipped in calligraphy ink on rice paper to, in her words, “convey thoughtful messages in a minimalist approach.”

She has five paintings done in mixed media on canvas. She loves texture and when she sees a pattern, a weave, or an item she likes, she thinks of how to incorporate it in a painting. So she has many tiny paper cranes in all sorts of colors for her “Flight of the Paper Cranes.” Also in mixed media is “The Explorer,” and if you see it, the artist wants you to find the explorer in the wilderness of the textured canvas.

She has acrylic on canvas: “Green Glass,” which is in monochromatic green where she sets bottles and a ball like bowling pins in a bowling alley to represent the fragility of glass. She has one watercolor painting, “Symphony of Leaves,” which she describes as her “appreciation for plant life, specifically for colorful leaves.”

“After the Rain” is in oil on canvas and depicts a little boy with raindrops on his face. Also in oil on canvas is “Sweet Spot” depicting a park bench in the midst of trees and bushes with light shining through. For this, the artist employed pointillism, the better to “let the light go through.”

“Golden Slumber,” done in mixed media, is a triptych, three panels set as one which Cruzet said is to have “the effect of looking at the sleeping woman through window panes.”

Cruzet is an artist who is not afraid to experiment on different kinds of media to be able to convey best what she wants to express. Her first solo exhibit shows she is one artist to watch in the coming years.

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