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    Artists Sharing Artists: Rodrigo Murillo

    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:

    Mexican multidisciplinary artist. Holds a BFA from the Faculty of Arts and Design (UNAM) where he participated in the interdisciplinary workshop “La Colmena” with renown artist José Miguel Gonzalez Casanova, specializing in alternative media for contemporary art. He has developed professionally as an artist, activist, gallerist, jury member, museum guide, workshop facilitator, lecturer, and jeweler. His artistic projects have explored speculative anthropology and new materialisms, examining how technology, culture, and nature intertwine as part of a critical ecological awareness necessary for our times.
    His work has been featured on radio and T.V. programs, such as: Radio Ibero (2018) and Radio UABCS (2024), TV Mar CPS Noticias, (2024), Greater Belize Media TV 5 News (2025), and printed newspapers and magazines such as: El Sudcaliforniano (2024), Excelsior Supplement (2017), La Tribuna de México (2024), and El Diario de Yucatán (2024), La Piedra (2011), online magazines such as: Artishock (2024) and Cultura Colectiva (2017). He has participated in international artist residencies in Berlin, New York City, and Belmopán. Murillo’s work has been selected for solo and group exhibitions in biennials, national museums, galleries, and festivals across Mexico, Germany, Cuba, USA, and Colombia. Collaborating with non-profit organizations that promote peace culture and environmental stewardship such as the Environmental Department of La Paz City Council, Baja California Sur. ConArte, A.C., Mexican Navy Secretariat, and the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), serving as a jury member for the 47th National Contest “The Child and the Sea, 2024,” SEP, Baja California Sur. As a speaker, he has participated in art and science conferences such as the Alameda Art Laboratory, the Center for Complexity Sciences C3, UNAM (2023), the III Mexican Symposium on Plastic Pollution of the Mexican Association for Plastic Waste Analysis (AMARP, Mérida, Yucatán, 2024), and BIO-LIZE Art, Sustainability & Community in Motion, University of Belize (2025). He has led large-scale citizen single-use plastic collection campaigns through OXXO retail chain stores in La Paz, B.C.S. As a gallerist, he founded the contemporary art gallery DESIERT@BIERTO during the @abcartbaja festival at Zona Maco in 2024.

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    Lost-wax Aluminum Cast Sculpture
    69,000 MXN

    About the Art:

    This Lost-wax aluminum-cast utilitarian sculpture is the result of an on-going art practice gathering and recycling hundreds of littered aluminum cans and six-pack single-use plastic rings that strangle and pollute our environment through the apparently innocent and never-ending beer beverage consumption in local beaches of Baja California Sur, Mexico. 

    For H2O exhibition the artist’s aesthetic exploration of forms think of water as the common space where the elegance of water lilies meet the deepness and frailness of coral reefs on the brink of extinction. Through turning trash into beauty, the artist reminds us that real alchemy can only exist with our coordinated effort as humans to love and protect our only habitable ecosystem: planet earth. 

    IG: @basuraconceptualreciclada      @desierta@bierto

    Earth Art Studio believes in supporting working artists! Purchasing art work and/or contributing a donation for your visit to the sculpture trail helps keep our creative community thriving and making more art!

    Currently, the studio is only open for scheduled events and by appointment.

    Please contact us if you’d like to visit!

    travel feature!

    It was fun to receive this video of travel bloggers who visited Whidbey Island, WA where one of my pieces lives at the Price Sculpture Forest. The Lichen Series | Spore Patterns installation was created in 2021 and is among dozens of amazing sculptures embedded into the landscape of the forest – definitely plan a visit if you’re in the area! The Sculpture Forest is featured at about the 8 minute 50 second mark on the video – check it out!

    About the Art: Lichen Series | Spore Patterns:

    This piece is inspired by the biological structures of mushroom gills and the patterns the spores leave behind. The over 300 ceramic forms are based on a type of shelf fungus that has a leathery surface and wedge shaped form that anchors itself to the side of decaying trees. This piece is a 12 foot diameter circle about 18″ high off the ground and is placed at the Price Sculpture Forest on Whidbey Island in Washington state.

    Conceptually, mushrooms speak of the cycle of life and death, since mycelium begins breaking down the dead waste in nature and the fruits of the mycelium (the mushrooms) are the new growth that comes from it. The spores that are dropped from the mushroom gills, spread the growth and the cycle continues. Mycelium are some of the largest living organisms on earth stretching underground over miles of terrain creating networks of communication throughout the landscape. This network makes them a symbol of growth through connection and how we are all connected to each other and to the systems and structures of nature. 

    Artists Sharing Artists: Rudy Mendoza + Oso Mango

    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 Artists:

    Rudy Mendoza is a Mexican artist that merges sculpture and architecture. His practice explores the concept of spirituality through contemplation in everyday life.

    Oso Mango is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, and digital media. His practice explores the space between the organic and the technological.

    twin mirrors | metal + water | 60,000 mxn

    About the Art:

    This work explores two conditions that, when brought together, quietly disrupt the familiar: the liquid state of matter and black understood as non-color. Liquid has no fixed form. It adapts to the shape that contains it, replicating without possessing, transforming without touching. Its identity is relational—it exists through response and continual adjustment. In this absence of form lies a clear lesson: what does not fix itself can perceive more, because it is not bound to a single appearance.

    Black appears here not as pigment, but as an active absence. It is not a void that diminishes meaning, but a reduction that concentrates it. When the water is darkened, transparency ceases to function as a passage and becomes depth. We no longer look through it; we look into it. Within that depth, details emerge that clarity often erases: reflections of the sky, subtle vibrations, slight shifts of light that reveal movement, time, and presence.

    For this reason, the work feels closely aligned with astronomy. In the universe, the most decisive forces do not always shine. Black holes cannot be observed directly; they are known through the way they bend light and affect the matter around them. In a similar way, this black liquid field does not represent the night—it renders it legible through its effects. Absence becomes an instrument. The invisible becomes perceptible not by appearing, but by leaving traces.

    There is also an ancient echo in this gesture. Maya astronomers studied the cosmos through patient observation of patterns—cycles, returns, displacements. Here, darkness and fluidity form a small terrestrial observatory: a space where the cosmic scale descends into material experience, and where looking is not about consuming images, but refining attention.

    At the intersection of non-form and non-color, the work proposes something both simple and demanding: that reality often becomes clearer when we stop insisting on fixed contours and definitive tones. Sometimes, to see more, one must remove. And allow the world—like water—to settle, revealing in its depth what usually goes unnoticed.

    IG: @rudylango      @osoparadoart

    Earth Art Studio believes in supporting working artists! Purchasing art work and/or contributing a donation for your visit to the sculpture trail helps keep our creative community thriving and making more art!

    Currently, the studio is only open for scheduled events and by appointment.

    Please contact us if you’d like to visit!

    Upcoming Workshop: Basura to Baskets

    Upcycled Basket Making with Anapaula Garcia-Bucio of Casa Ladrillo 

    Friday April 24th | 10am – 1pm | Earth Art Studio

    B CR8IV and learn a new crafty skill while enjoying the quiet of the Las Playitas desert. Basura to Baskets is a hands-on weaving workshop that transforms everyday waste into something useful, beautiful, and lasting. Using recycled and found materials—plastic bags, packaging, and more—participants will learn foundational basket-weaving techniques while rethinking what we consider “trash.” Guided step-by-step by Anapaula, we’ll explore how to prepare, shape, and weave these materials into functional vessels. All materials will be provided, though participants are encouraged to bring clean, flexible waste items of their own to incorporate into their work.

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    Todos Santos: Destino Cultural

    Surprised, humbled and honored that our little desert sculpture garden in the middle of nowhere would end up in a fancy Mexico City magazine!?

    But here we are among our amazingly talented fellow local artists and gallerists of Todos Santos showcasing the 4th annual Art Baja!

    You can read (in Spanish) the full article here or just check out the awesome photos.

    Artists Sharing Artists: Paolo Melandri

    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:

    Paolo was born in 1953 in Ravenna, Italy. Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire and was a historical city of art and cultures, so since childhood he has been attracted to colors and art. After high school he studied art, theatre and set design. This love of art continually grows and evolves throughout life experiences, travels and intense strength to be able to peel back this veil of omerta or the wall of silence that shrouds the world. Paolo currently paints and sculpts in his studio in the desert just north of Todos Santos. 

    About the Art:

    The concept of the work, is that where there is water there is always LIFE, because it nourishes everything, heals pain and aridity, and with the help of time, everything flourishes again. Through pain, we achieve access to new feelings that allow love to generate new life. 

    IG: @paolomelandri53


    HASTA LA ETERNIDAD | Oil on Board | 82,400 MXN

    Earth Art Studio believes in supporting working artists! Purchasing art work and/or contributing a donation for your visit to the sculpture trail helps keep our creative community thriving and making more art!

    Currently, the studio is only open for scheduled events and by appointment.

    Please contact us if you’d like to visit!

    New Workshop: Glassy Seas

    GLASSY SEAS: Etched Designs on Recycled Bottles with Jenni Ward


    Friday April 17th | 10am – 1pm | Earth Art Studio

    B CR8IV and learn a new crafty skill while enjoying the quiet of the Las Playitas desert. Students will learn how to mask and acid etch a design inspired by the sea onto recycled glass bottles. Jenni will guide you through our project to help you create a unique, personalized piece while exploring a variety of techniques, tools + materials.
    Includes all materials, snacks/drinks and a personalized tour of our our current exhibition H20.

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    We are Open April 11th for Second Saturday!

    We are OPEN for Second Saturdays! | events | Earth Art Studio

    We are excited to announce that Earth Art Studio will be open to the public for FREE on every Second Saturday this Spring!

    Join us March 14th, April 11th or May 9th from 10AM – 4PM for self-guided tours of the H2O exhibition in the studio and sculpture garden!

    If you’ve been meaning to make it out here, now’s your chance, we look forward to seeing you!

    Click here to see the full line-up of spring events…

    Upcoming Workshop!

    B CR8IV Workshop Series: Basura to Baskets | shop | Earth Art Studio

    Basura to Baskets with Anapaula Garcia-Bucio of Casa Ladrillo 

    Friday April 24th | 10am – 1pm | Earth Art Studio

    B CR8IV and learn a new crafty skill while enjoying the quiet of the Las Playitas desert. Students will learn basic basket weaving skills to create a basket primarily from upcycled materials like plastic bags. Anapaula will guide you through our project to help you create a unique, personalized piece while exploring a variety of techniques, tools + materials.

    Includes all materials, snacks/drinks and a personalized tour of our our current exhibition H20.

    No experience needed, but space is limited. Payments may be made in person in pesos, please contact us to hold your space.

    SIGN UP HERE!