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Artists Sharing Artists: Saskia Onvlee

April 27, 2026 April 27, 2026

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:

Saskia Onvlee was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1984. She studied at the Universidad Nacional de Arte, where she oriented her practice toward printmaking and further developed her work at the Gráfica p/a workshop, led by Patricio Bosch and Ana Noya. Since 2008, she has actively participated in exhibitions, competitions, and residency programs, consolidating an expanded approach to the graphic language.

In 2015, she relocated with Carlos Domin to Todos Santos, in the state of Baja California Sur, México. Since then, they have co-directed La Sonrisa de la Muerte, an independent space dedicated to the production, dissemination, and support of emerging contemporary printmaking practices.

In 2025, they inaugurated La Liebre Press, their new studio located north of Todos Santos, conceived as a site for production and exchange where she develops her work and leads workshops, expanding her commitment to printmaking as a living, collective, and constantly evolving practice.

About the Art:

Stream

A blue flow, a ritual garment moving through different scenarios and bodies.

A space of longing, faith, wisdom, uncertainty, and refuge.

Along its vital trajectory, it becomes charged with the hands that hold and mend it; hands that trust, that care, and that communicate.

A current of natural force.

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Artists Sharing Artists: Rodrigo Murillo

April 21, 2026 April 26, 2026

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

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Artists Sharing Artists: Rudy Mendoza + Oso Mango

April 14, 2026 April 14, 2026

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

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Artists Sharing Artists: Susan McBride

March 31, 2026 March 31, 2026

About the Artist:

Susan McBride of Mind Clay Body Studio unearthed her passion for clay after receiving the M.S. in Education/Social Policy from Northwestern University. A Chicago based educator, ceramic artist, and painter, McBride has taught in the US, China, Kenya, and Mexico. Wood firing and studio affiliations include Made Chicago, Barro Sur, Taller de Terreno, and Theaster Gates Studio. She also is certified in Clay Field Therapy, a haptic based, sensorimotor intervention that can help heal trauma or developmental delays.
McBride crafts pots inspired by the intersection of natural and urban environments and finds purpose and peace through ceramic work. She makes functional and sculptural ceramics for contemplation, relaxation and the practice of life. Sourced from our earth, clay is rock weathered over time. Intrigued by the scientific and haptic nature of the material, for McBride it links humans to our planet and to each other. She explores a variety of clay bodies and glazes in different firing atmospheres and fuel sources, including gas, wood, electric, to learn the chemistry occurring in each kiln that best enhances the work placed inside it. Every clay pot has its own story and can serve as a reminder of our individualism and humanity.
As an artist-activist, she organized and led Nasty Women Art Chicago, co-created “Pots to the People: Seconds for the First Amendment” and was an invited artist for “Still Counting,” an exhibit honoring women’s rights at SOFA Chicago. Representing Firebird Community Arts, she taught a hand building series for Red Line Service members, an arts-based support group for the unhoused, in Hull House Museum’s “Radical Craft” exhibition. Cast in a print media campaign for The Field Museum, her portrayal as ‘Viking woman’ was featured on billboards and buses throughout the city.

Olla Oasis Installation images 1 – 5 | Water Pitcher, glazed local clay, 3000MXN image 6

About the Art:

The ollas I created for this show are wheel thrown local clay mixed with a red sculpture body and are examples of an ancient irrigation system used world wide where low fire pots are buried from the neck down and filled with water. Soil moisture tension pulls the water through the unglazed, porous walls of the olla to the thirsty roots of plants nearby. These vessels exemplify the reverent connection between the earth, the hands of a maker, and the joint effort between both to produce our flora, fauna and food, all while utilizing our greatest resource, water.

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artists sharing artists: Luis Kerch

March 24, 2026 March 31, 2026

About the Artist:

Kerch is a contemporary landscape artist whose practice operates at the intersection of phenomenological observation and lyrical abstraction. Born in Mexico, he holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Miami and a Master’s degree from the Pratt Institute in New York. Educated in the United States and Europe, his life and work have unfolded between Europe and the Americas. He currently works between Baja California Sur, Mexico, and the Canary Islands, Spain. Kerch has developed a visual language that moves beyond geographic representation to express lived experience in nature.

With a career spanning more than three decades across Europe and the Americas, Kerch has established a strong international presence. In the United Kingdom, his European recognition was confirmed through selection for the Threadneedle Prize for Painting & Sculpture in London, organized by the Federation of British Artists and supported by the Saatchi Gallery.
He has participated in major international fair and museum circuits such as Context Art Miami (USA), BARCU (Colombia), and FIA (Venezuela). His work has been exhibited in institutions including museums of the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabrera Pinto Institute, the Exhibition Hall of the Government of the Canary Islands (Spain), the Centro Cultural de España en México, the Centro de Arte de Sintra (Portugal), Fundación Caixa, Fundación Rucandio, as well as private and institutional collections.

arroyo grande, luna | acrilico | 26,000 mxn
arroyo grande, luna | acrilico | 26,000 mxn
arroyo grande, cardón | acrilico | 26,000 mxn
arroyo grande, flor | acrilico | 26,000 mxn

About the Art:

Landscapes in Liquid Modernity

We inhabit an era defined by contemporary philosophers as “liquid times,” a state where solid structures—certainties, borders, and fixed points—vanish to give way to transience and constant flux.

In this context, Luis Kerch’s work emerges as a visual testament to this liquidity, where the landscape is not presented as a static entity, but as matter that blurs and transforms before our eyes. For Kerch, the canvas is not a rigid map, but a container of meditative glazes that function like water: they shape the environment, but never settle into a definitive form. By destroying the image to activate the imagination, the artist embraces the aesthetics of liquid modernity. His paintings are “direct expressions of the inner state,” capturing a world where identity and perception are volatile and slip through our fingers like water itself. In his works, light is the driving force that dissolves boundaries. Kerch constantly repositions his canvas, freeing the scene from a fixed light source. This technical gesture reflects the uncertainty of our era: a play between the ephemeral and that which remains only long enough to be captured. His paintings inhabit a borderless threshold, a perfect metaphor for a society where spaces of belonging are increasingly blurred.

To contemplate the work of Luis Kerch is to immerse oneself in a “sonata toward light” that questions our own reality. It is the art of the ineffable in times when all that is solid vanishes, reminding us that, in this liquid world, the only way to capture beauty is by letting ourselves be carried away by the current of poetic perception.

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Artists Sharing Artists: Steven Jacobi

March 9, 2026 March 31, 2026

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.

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: Christa Assad

February 26, 2026 March 31, 2026

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.

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.

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