From Redbud Gallery:

"Redbud Arts Center is delighted to present Yasuyo Maruyama with her show titled "The One Scene". Her figurative portraits render a close view of Yasuyo's own impressions of each model. Her subjects fill the entire panel in bright colors and clean outlines, popping from a monochromatic background. The portraits are very intimate, begging to get to know them better.

Free and open to the public.

ARTIST STATEMENT The inspiration for my artwork reflects my interactions with people, of which I remember certain scenes, atmospheres, colors, and gestures. When I was a teenager, I suffered from severe atopic dermatitis and experienced recovery from skin keloid. Since then, I have become very curious about human faces, especially eyes.

As the proverb says, “Speech is silver; silence is golden.” Our eyes can express a great deal of insight about ourselves. Depicting the eyes is, in a sense, the same as depicting myself in the mirror. I try to embody an image of myself in each portrait that I paint. I create paintings that are often a reflection of my own issues and thoughts, which are then combined with the model’s personality and their stories. While I find similarities and differences in gender and race as delightful encounters, in my mind, I create an “individual” or “new character” in my paintings that does not exist in real life. This is my first solo exhibition in Houston. I am showing 10 oil paintings that I created since 2020 including four newest works."