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Artists Sharing Artists: Steven Jacobi

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!

Artists Sharing Artists: Steven Jacobi | the dirt | Jenni Ward ceramic sculpture

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.

Artists Sharing Artists: Steven Jacobi | the dirt | Jenni Ward ceramic sculpture
Sed/Thirst | Ceramic | Pozos/Wells 1 – 6 $25,000MXN – $8000 MXN each, please inquire about specific pieces

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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Artists Sharing Artists: Maythé Curiel

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:
Originally from La Paz, Baja California Sur, she is an industrial designer who approaches ceramics with enthusiasm and authenticity. With over five years of experience exploring materials and processes, she leads projects at Barro Sur. Her approach blends technique, intuition, and curiosity, bringing to life pieces that seek to convey comfort, emotion, and a connection with the user.

About the Art:

‘Defenders’ is inspired by the sea urchin: an ancient creature that marks boundaries without threatening. Nine conical sculptures combine earth and fire to speak of fragility, strength, and respect for coastal ecosystems and our responsibility to care for them. Their modular nature invites interaction and observation of each piece as a gesture of coexistence with the sea.

IG: @srita.curiel

defenders | ceramic | entire installation: 33,000 MXN
pieces available individually please inquire for pricing

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Artists Sharing Artists: Christa Assad

We will be 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:

Mexico beckoned and Christa Assad relocated her home and studio south of the border in 2017. She was captivated by the small Pueblo Mágico of Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, with its colorful decorations dangling across the narrow streets, and one long dirt road out to her new land. Her desert hideaway now houses the only wood kiln in Baja, and there she enjoys experimenting with local clay and found treasures from her hikes in the dramatic landscape. She balances her time between potting and painting, beach combing and exploring cities on the mainland.

Assad’s work is in the permanent collections of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Ceramic Research Center at Arizona State University Museum, and The Penn State Fulbright Scholar Collection, and is included in Garth Clark’s Shards, Kevin A. Hluch’s The Art of Contemporary Pottery, and Lark Books‘ 500 Teapots and 500 Pitchers. Her paintings can be found locally at Galeria Militar in central Todos Santos as well as by appointment at her studio in Las Playitas.

Ripple Effect | Acrylic on Plywood | 48″x48″ | 75,000mxn

About the Art:

Have you ever done something and been surprised by how such a seemingly small act can affect so many other people or things? Like the tides shape the shoreline of our Baja beaches, one movement pushes and forms the next. The “ripple effect” is best known by examples such as a rock thrown in the water: the concentric circles formed around it continue to expand outward and distort according to any other forces at work.

Here in our beautiful desert of Las Playitas we have witnessed changes in the landscape resulting from the recent growth of the real estate market. Virgin desert forests are clear-cut to gain a better view of the ocean or to make way for a construction site. Roads are cut, widened and graded, fences are built, leaving less and less of a grazing area for the herds of cows and goats that rely on it for a good portion of their food source. Many species of animals, reptiles and insects lose their homes. Water paths and cycles are altered, and all of this affects the ecosystem and eventually our environment.

Having awareness of our actions, our words and our thoughts is crucial to how we affect our friends, strangers we encounter, the paths we follow, and in the long run, the planet. The ripple effect is physics – physical science – that we can actually see. 

Art imitates life. This painting was made starting at the right-hand side with the light pink stripe. I tried my best to paint a straight, continuous stripe of the same width (based on the brush), trying not to lift the brush except to dip into the paint. When my hand wavered or I fumbled the brush, I let that be a record of the process – the accidents and missteps of life. With each stripe that followed in a different color, I followed the edge of the previous stripe so that, very gradually, the ripple effect emerged.

christaassad.com IG: @christaassad

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Artists Sharing Artists: Kevin Wickham

Kevin is one of the nine artists participating in Sticks + Stones | Palos + Piedras exhibition at Earth Art Studio. He is exhibiting a cast in bronze piece displayed in the arroyo and is also the architect who designed our studio through his business Taller de Terreno Arquitectura.

About the Artist:
Kevin has a passion for minimalism as it relates to living spaces and sculptures that work in harmony with their natural surroundings. He was influenced by self-taught Japanese architect Tadao Ando and his use of concrete to express a minimal relationship between interior and exterior. Over the past 35 years Wickham has designed and built more than 50 of his own projects and countless others for clients and friends in the U.S., Mexico, and Southeast Asia. As early as 35 years ago, Wickham began incorporating passive design into his buildings, including solar energy, water collection, planted roofs, and natural lighting and insulation to make the buildings more sustainable. “My goal is to create minimal and beautiful living spaces that work in harmony with the site’s natural surroundings.”

Work for Sale at Earth Art Studio:

Vaca (view 1) | bronze | sold
Vaca (view 2) | bronze | sold
Vaca (view 3) | bronze | sold

About the Art:
Inspired by minimalist forms that connect the natural world to the manmade world, Vaca began as a small piece of wood that Kevin found while roaming the desert. He was attracted to its shape which appeared to be similar to the form of a cow skull. Kevin had the piece of wood scanned, digitally enlarged and then 3D printed. The resulting form was then cast in bronze and given a patina.

IG: @tdtakw

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.

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artists sharing artists: Natalia Szalc

Natalia is one of the nine artists participating in Sticks + Stones | Palos + Piedras  exhibition at Earth Art Studio. She is exhibiting her site specific installation of fungi-nipples in our arroyo as well as smaller works in the studio.

About the Artist:

Inspired by nature, Natalia Szalc creates beautiful ceramic pieces that seamlessly blend form and function. Her work explores the delicate balance between structure, material, and design, often drawing influence from forest elements like fungi and moss. By integrating human body parts with aspects of the natural world, she reflects on our connection—or disconnection—with nature.  

With a background in graphic design, Natalia now focuses on clay, crafting organic forms that emphasize balance, growth, and individuality. Originally from Poland and New York, and currently based in Todos Santos, B.C.S., her work is both introspective and evocative, inviting contemplation on the relationship between self and the natural world.

Work for Sale at Earth Art Studio:

fungi nipple collective installation | ceramic | nfs – commissions available
arroyo vivo i | ceramic
15″ x 13″ x 2″ | 30,000 mxn
arroyo vivo ii | ceramic
16″ x 12″ x 2″ | 30,000 mxn
arroyo vivo iii | ceramic + glass
12″ x 10″ x 2″ | 30,000 mxn
artists sharing artists: Natalia Szalc | the dirt | Jenni Ward ceramic sculpture
fungi nipple windchime | ceramic, wood + cord | 32″x43″x4″ | 25,000 mxn

About the Art:
What do mushrooms and women have in common? They both play a significant role in the creation of life on Earth: populating, nourishing, cultivating, and communicating. Similar to the mycelium network, women serve as facilitators of communication and builders of connections. They pass down valuable knowledge through generations and share supportive information that uplifts one another. The Fungi Nipple ceramic installation is a collaborative effort between myself and a group of women who create these pieces together to form a swarm of Fungi Nipples. The number of pieces reflects the vital role that women play in our world as creators of life and growth. A woman embodies Mother Nature herself, with a sacred connection to the earth and clay. By honoring and respecting the womb, we honor and respect the feminine – embracing the deep, mysterious realms of inner wisdom, feminine power, intuition, and living in harmony with the cycles of birth, growth, decay, death. and rebirth. This installation aims to recognize women as the creators of life and their profound connection to Mother Nature. What better way to establish this connection than through a simple acknowledgment? Acknowledgment can serve as a potent tool for building trust, shifting attitudes, and fostering collaboration. This installation is designed to spark conversations about the power and practice of acknowledgment, aligning ourselves with the essence of Mother Nature.


IG: @nplusyou IG: @funginipplecollective

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artists sharing artists: Paolo Melandri

Paolo is one of the nine artists participating in Sticks + Stones | Palos + Piedras  exhibition at Earth Art Studio. He is primarily a painter but dabbles in sculpture and his mixed media piece entitled, Impossibilita d’Amare (Impossibility to Love) in right at home in our sculpture garden.

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. 

Work for Sale at Earth Art Studio:

impossibilita d’amare | 55″x40″x40″
iron, plaster + ceramic | 100,000 mxn
impossibilita d’amare (detail) | 55″x40″x40″
iron, plaster + ceramic | 100,000 mxn

About the Art:
Our deep roots from the center of the earth are affected by the current society making the individual more fragile and selfish, and at the same time transforming him into an unthinking being. This sculpture is a hymn to the awareness of taking back the intense and positive energy from the earth we tread and that we must love and respect.

IG: @paolomelandri53

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artists sharing artists: Rudy Mendoza

Rudy is one of the nine artists participating in Sticks + Stones | Palos + Piedras exhibition at Earth Art Studio. His contemplative sculpture made of copper and charred wood is entitled Mauna and sits in the center of our labyrinth.

About the Artist:

Incorporating copper into my sculptures allows me to explore the metal’s tactile warmth, energy conductivity, and also reminds me of the ineffable. By manipulating copper, I engage in a dialogue between form and function, resonating with both physical presence and conceptual depth.
The minimalism allows the material and spiritual to be felt as one: physical form plus accompanying energetic resonance. I combine copper with the tradition of Yakisugi wood burning which symbolizes silence, impermanence, and the void. The dialogue between the elements invites contemplation, the main objective of the piece. Contemplate the piece, contemplate yourself.

mauna | copper and charred wood
60″x20″x20″ | 50,000 mxn
mauna (detail) | copper and charred wood
60″x20″x20″ | 50,000 mxn

About the Art:

This work, constructed from copper, emerges from a quest to materialize the interior space that opens to silence. Its form and layout are conceived to invite a deliberate pause: an interruption in the usual flow of perception that allows one to enter a meditative state.

Inspired by listening—not only to sound, but to the silence that remains afterward—it proposes a meditative threshold in which the viewer becomes an active part of the work.

Copper, due to its acoustic properties and its ability to reflect both light and the environment, acts as a channel between the visible and the audible. By approaching the piece and placing their body in direct relationship with it, the viewer participates in an intimate gesture of listening. This act can be interpreted as a metaphor for deep attention: not necessarily to a specific sound, but to the resonance that remains after the experience of listening.

The charred wood acts as a vertical line that indicates the silence after the sound, the shadow after the fire. The desert installation reinforces the idea of ​​a fertile void, where silence is not absence, but potential space. The piece doesn’t emit sound; rather, it becomes a threshold to awareness of the environment, the body, and the present moment. As if it were a door or a ritual ear opened toward the desert and its vast sound.

IG: @rudylango

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Artists Sharing Artists: Ulises Martinez

Ulises is one of the nine artists participating in Sticks + Stones | Palos + Piedras exhibition at Earth Art Studio. He is a printmaker, muralist and street artist but for this exhibition, he also created 5 sculptural works in concrete. Later this month, he will also be giving a printmaking workshop in the studio.

About the Artist:
Ulises was born in Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico) in 1987. He is a self-taught visual artist. He has lived in B.C.S. since 2012. His works are characterized by themes such as environmental conservation and community identity in various parts of Mexico.

Ulises Martínez has distinguished himself for his urban work, with more than 80 murals created in the cities of La Paz, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico City, Puebla, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Chihuahua, and Campeche.

He is co-founder of the project “The Color of Memory” with photographer Leonardo Luna, where they share stories that give identity to the communities of B.C.S. through murals and short films. They also have their own website, www.elcolordelamemoria.com, where you can learn about these stories. Founder of the graphic design workshop “Frente al color” in La Paz, Baja California Sur, in 2021, where workshops have been held for children and adolescents. 

Work for Sale at Earth Art Studio (all prints are framed):

soy agave | 22″x21″x13″
ferrocement | 25,000 mxn
coyote i | 18″x32″x10″
ferrocement | 25,000 mxn
coyote ii | 28″x33″x11″
ferrocement | 35,000 mxn
coyote iii | 32″x32″x10″
ferrocement | 35,000 mxn
coyote iv | 30″x25″x10″
ferrocement | 35,000 mxn
coyote del desierto | 22″x30″
print on mdf | 12,100 mxn
la perla del coyote | 30″x22″
print on mdf | 12,100 mxn
corazon de chacuaca | 22″x30″
print on mdf | SOLD
carpintero | 30″x30″
print on mdf | 13,572 mxn
hombre y espina | 11″x11″
print on mdf | 4,500 mxn
olla con agarradera | 11″x11″
print on mdf | 4,500 mxn
olla bola | 11″x11″
print on mdf | 4,500 mxn

About the Art:

In April 2024, I began a series of six murals titled Agaves and Coyotes, where I explored shapes and color in spaces such as private homes, restaurants, and a building. To continue this exploration, I decided to create carved MDF prints, using black and white to highlight qualities that caught my attention as I carefully observed the possibilities that agaves offer in their natural environment, thus exploring new forms and abstractions of the image.

For the exhibition “Sticks and Stones,” I prepared a series of sculptures made using the ferrocement technique, an exploration that continues both in form and concept. From my Oaxacan origins, I observe the Southern Californian desert and reinterpret it. Here is the desert, here are its creatures, here the desert speaks.

www.ulimtz.com IG: @frentealcolor

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Artists Sharing Artists: Abel Martinez Gonzales

Abel is one of the nine artists participating in Sticks + Stones | Palos + Piedras exhibition at Earth Art Studio. He is known for his jewelry but in this exhibition, he is working on a much larger scale showcasing three sculptures made from recycled metals and mixed materials such as corn husks and cardboard.

About the Artist:
Abel has spent 23 years as a jeweler originally from Jalisco and 17 years living in Todos Santos. The idea of how art is the creative and conscious manifestation between the human being and the universe, through the ability to maintain a prolonged focus and concentration. Curiosity has led him to transcend jewelry and delve into sculpture, using recycled materials to raise awareness of the garbage problem in our community. Seeker of human truth and the causes of its behavior. 

Work for Sale at Earth Art Studio:

Cosmodesierto | 100″x 50″ x38″ | mixed media | 30,000 mxn
Cosmodesierto (detail) | 100″x 50″ x38″ | mixed media | 30,000 mxn
Burro |78″x45″x40″ | mixed media | 15,000 mxn
Cactus | 25″x12″x 6″| recycled metal | SOLD

About the Art:

Cosmodesierto
The roadrunner, is adapted to maintain balance with the desert. Its reflexes help it survive in the ever-changing, rain-dependent environment of the Baja California Sur desert. It is adapted to live in droughts; it is a mysterious animal capable of devouring rattlesnakes. It is a very resilient and swift animal at the same time. 
To be a roadrunner is to be part of a unique and complete cosmos. Where humans see a limited desert, the roadrunner sees a perfect universe, even where the notion of time is irrelevant. The desert guides the roadrunner to an infinite and perfect space, where running elevates the definition of love to a perfect state of mind. 

Burro  
The donkey with a human body represents how moral consciousness manages the instinctive essence of impulses and anger. Wearing the mask can transform your personality into a completely free state of being. Braying, stamping, and wagging your tail can free you from the foundations of human ethics and morality and feel the essence of your psyche change.

 Cactus, the grandfather of the desert.


IG: @imaginabel.creativity.jewerly

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Artists Sharing Artists: Steven Jacobi

Steven is one of the nine artists participating in Sticks + Stones | Palos + Piedras exhibition at Earth Art Studio. He is showcasing a large hand-built stoneware piece that is displayed in the arroyo. His piece entitled, possible votive artifact, provenance unknown SJ-1112-TS has metallic oxides, glazes and has gone through multiple kiln firings to achieve its surface. 

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. During this years studio tour both sculptures and a variety of functional ware will be on display and available.

Work for Sale at Earth Art Studio:

possible votive artifact, provenance unknown SJ-1112-TS | 22″ x 22″ x 7″
59,000 MXN (view 1)
possible votive artifact, provenance unknown SJ-1112-TS | 22″ x 22″ x 7″ 59,000 MXN (view 2)
possible votive artifact, provenance unknown SJ-1112-TS | 22″ x 22″ x 7″
59,000 MXN (view 3)

About the Art:

The desert environment, with its sparse landscape and arid environment has for millennia been seen as a place of discovery. Preserved traces and artifacts of persons of mysterious origin are part of the lore surrounding our attraction to the desert the world over. Steven Jacobi continues his “unknown provenance” series with this piece, in which he seeks to touch on an emotional connection to the lives of others we can never truly know, yet feel the commonality of our shared humanity all the same. 


IG: @ceramicasrj studio@barrosur.com www.barrosur.com

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.

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