October Issue 2001
Cameo Fine Art in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Britta Cruz
Cameo Fine Art in Columbia, SC, is pleased to present a solo exhibit of new works by local artist Britta Cruz. The exhibit will be on display beginning Oct. 25. The show will remain on display until Nov. 9, 2001.
Britta Cruz, a native of Munich, Germany received her degree in Marketing and Public Relations from University of Barcelona, Spain. She went on to study Foreign Correspondence in Bremen, Germany. She now currently resides in Columbia, where she has become an active figure in the public arts community.
Known for her figurative works - creating paintings with acrylics on disparate grounds, sculptures with extreme firing techniques, Cruz has brought new emphasis to her most recent works. The different materials she used were pushed to the limits of their capacities. Cruz says, "The possibilities are uncountable, only time could restrain me from living those explorations without limits."
Cruz's work disseminates with passion and stimulates the senses. She says, "To stimulate the senses in more than one way while expressing my passions was a quest on my part in creating work for this exhibit. I wanted to transmit to my viewer how everything you are passionate about should be explored in every possible way. That is how the variety of mediums I already worked in were taken and approached: porcelain sculptures pit fired and subject to extreme temperature changes, acrylic paintings on canvas with collages of paper and wax."
In this exhibit, Cruz's paintings demonstrate multimedia examples of past, present and future encounters of passion by using large gasps of built up color on large canvases. Her sculptures are uniquely sculpted from life by using a delicate and precise touch in the actual sculpting process. In many of her creations, Cruz incorporates poetry that she writes herself. One of which was just published in an anthology by The International Library of Poetry this last August titled, Purple Thoughts.
In addition to the exhibit at Cameo Fine Art, Cruz will be presenting two installations, one of which will be in front of AV The State of Art Audio & Video Equipment Store located just around the corner on Lady Street. The installation at AV serves as part of the work created for the City Garage Project sponsored by First National Bank. The Project will begin next year during the grand opening of First National Bank auctioning off the installations / sculptures in a 50-50 artist charity split.
Cruz has been a well received artist not only in SC but in several corporations in Griesstedt, Germany, First American Investments in Xabia, Spain and The Executive Club at The Ritz Carlton in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Cruz just returned from a collaborative two-city cultural exchange project between Columbia, SC, and Kaiserslautern, Germany from the "Sister City" project similar to that of the Palmetto Tree project by The Cultural Council of Richland & Lexington Counties.
For more information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings or call the gallery at 803/799-8869 or AV at 803/252-5551.
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