We are sharing each of the artists participating in our current exhibition H2O through our blog series, Artists Sharing Artists, so you can learn a little more about them and their artwork. If you’d like to come see the show in person, please check out our pop-up event schedule and/or book a private tour with us! If you’d like to purchase work, please contact us!
About the Artist:
Steven discovered ceramics almost by accident, taking a summer pottery class with his mother while home from college in North Carolina. He was lucky enough to work for four years under well-known Japanese ceramic artist Hiroshi Sueyoshi; acquiring an attention to aesthetic detail and craftsmanship that guides his work to this day. He went on to study and assist at a variety of schools and studios where he learned a broad range of traditional and cutting-edge techniques.
Steven founded Barro Sur Studio in 2020, providing the Todos Santos community with its premier location for ceramic classes, artist workspace, ceramic supplies and a fully equipped studio with which to follow his own artistic path in clay. He loves creating ceramic sculpture and truly enjoys creating functional art and vessels for the home.
About the Art:
Presented as a series of hand-built ceramic forms, “sed/thirst” unfolds as a fragmented hydrological landscape inspired by springs, wells, arroyos, reservoirs, rain, and subterranean aquifers. Each piece reflects a different state of water in our desert environment —contained, pure, stagnant, evaporated, filtered, seasonal, flowing, abundant, withheld.
The installation functions as a quiet commentary on water scarcity inviting viewers to reflect on the human impulse to capture, control, and commodify what is necessarily fluid and cyclical. The pieces suggest that the precious water that lies beneath the surface is not infinite, depth does not guarantee abundance. Our thirst remains. Thirst, here, is both a warning and an invitation: a call to reconsider how we draw from what cannot be replaced, or if we should take at all.
IG: @ceramicasrj @barrosur www.barrosur.com
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