Studio samba by Pepe Pool

Contents 1. Modular Sculptures 2. Unique Cast 3. Wall Sculptures 4. Cartoons 5. Steel Sculptures 6. Mixed Media 7. Photography Awards 8. Sculptures Award 9. Exhibiting Artists 10.

Fotography by Pepe Pool

Facilities and Pictures Courtesy of

Studio Samba Special Thanks to: Samuel Bassett & Jean Justeau

Editor and Catalog Design. by Pepe Pool

Carmel Art Festival 2007 DIO # 12

(Concrete) Honorable Mencion

From Left to right Pepe Pool & Sam Bassett .

Studio Samba is a collaborative art workshop that provides a studio opportunity for artists who feel they augment each other. Samuel Bassett and Pepe Pool have worked in synchronization for five years on numerous modular sculptural projects. “We love the process of fitting shapes together, exploring spatial relationships, working toward a gratifying sculptural result. Materials are a subsidiary interest – usually concrete in its many variations, but also steel and lacquered wood and any found object that comes to hand”. Recent works involve triangles in numbers of possible relationships. The structural stability of the shape permits climbing to heights not easily reached with circles and rectangles. That same stability allows an airiness that suggests ephemerality. Each piece that we do is an experiment. We start with small cardboard models and progress to full-scale wood maquettes. If we like what we see we move on to welded steel and larger scales. The final sculpture fits into the progression of sculptural experimentation in relating to what has gone before and what will follow, but is unique.

Jean Justeau - Painter Oldest daughter of eight children, born into grinding poverty and raised in rural California foothills, my first memories are of an unpainted board and tarpaper shack. That depressing shade of weathered wood – gave birth to my lifelong need to see color…any color other than the grey and white and dirty browns of winter. School was my refuge. They had paint and brushes and tin pots of color in the well of a folding easel. I loved the act of painting, standing at the easel, dipping the brush, the slap of paint on paper, the colors and kinetics of it. I was six years old.My first commission was ten years later…the neighbor’s dead cat; okay, not as “Dead Cat” rather as a memory of “Tommy”; it wasn’t great, but I still got paid the $10.00. At eighteen I joined the US Air Force and was blessed to be assigned as an Apprentice Illustrator and to wearthat fine blue uniform. I made great use of the GI Bill (before they ripped they heart out of it) to complete a B.A. in Art at CSUS and a M.A. in Psychology (I had aspirations to be an Art Therapist). I found bill paying work not at all related to art. Along the way I painted portraits (Dogs, cats, adults and kids and other assorted beings). Entry fees, shipping costs and a basic lack of discretionary funds precluded the possibility of entering juried shows so I muddled about with commissioned work. I did a stint at Matrix, a Gallery of Women Artists and learned a bit about the processes involved in putting together a show. Eventually I retired from my “day job” to the Delta and started painting less portraiture and more of what my delightful spouse calls “scenes”.I do not title myself “Artist”- I am a painter. As an Air Force Illustrator I painted as ordered and asa portraitist I painted as requested, now I paint and teach simply because I enjoy it… at my age I have no long-term goals or aspirations. I do however have gratitude for time spent with these great teachers, some of whom despaired of my ever “getting it”.In order of appearance:Larry Weldon, convinced me to believe in myself and apply for the scholarship; Chief Master Sergeant Walter Fortuna, elements of design and commercial techniques (to this day I have no love for a ruling pen and India ink); Jim Lewis, color theory and the elegance of line; Bill Williams, stones and the gift of whimsy; Larry Walker, the nude, form and attitude; Oliver Jackson, philosophy, “it’s about the work”; Steve Kaltenbach, the importance of vision, planning and detail; Esteban Villa, to value a different point of view; Jose Montoya, the single image statement. To these go credit for anything done well, the rest is on me.My grade school love of painting has not diminished; ultimately my work is about the act of painting, it is rapt with paint. I still find joy in the way painting feels, the resistance of a brush as it glides across the canvas, the movement of my arm, and the ache in my lower back from standing. The act of painting sustains me and ultimately only that act will gratify; painting, my exquisite torment.

Modular Sculptures

Modular art is a type of contemporary art known for the use of one repeating image or unit to create a larger picture or three-dimensional piece. This type of conceptual art has a basis in architecture for its mathematically precise applications of proportion. The visual or sculptural building blocks used in modular art can be as simple as colored squares or as complex as a series of carved marble columns. Artists who create this kind of generative art often have goals of making an image or object that is quite different from the individual pieces that comprise it. The generative art units used in repetitive patterns are often known as modules. A module for a two-dimensional piece of modular art is usually selected according to certain laws of mathematics such as congruence and equivalence. Knowledge of number theory is usually important for correctly fitting visual elements together so they have balanced proportions of color and shape. Some modular artists begin formulating these patterns by assigning a specific number to each interlocking shape and then piecing the artwork together according to a chosen number order. The resulting patterns in some pieces can be changed around without disturbing this balance, although others are not as structurally or visually flexible.

Sam Bassett with three concrete pigmented donuts

It is amazing all that you can do with concrete!

Black and White Stack

Concrete is a composite material composed of coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement which hardens over time. Most concretes used are limebased concretes such as Portland cement concrete or concretes made with other hydraulic cements, such as ciment fondu.

Modular Sculptures

Lodi (2007)

Cornered Yellow (2007)

Dio # 14 (2007)

So Hard, Being Different (2007)

Sailor moon (2007)

Modular Sculptures

Justin by Sherri Eidhammer - Second Place

Wren by M. Lasak - First Place

Fine Balance (2007)

Lodi # 4 (2007)

Stack #1 (2007)

Modular Sculptures

Tolulha (2007)

Blue Stack (2007)

Sam & the winners at Carmel Art Festival (2007) Sam & Pepe at Carmel Art Festival (2007)

Table Sculptures

The simple yet striking form of this concrete sculpture has great presence. We apply copper leafing and we finish by buffing the concrete creating a remarkably smooth surface. Mounted on a steel base (included). Each is unique and will vary.

Reverence (2008)

Black and White Sculpture (2008)

Yellow Moon (2008)

Table Sculptures

Binary code (2007)

The Perfect Balance (2007)

Just a Bite (2007)

Napoleon (2007)

Green and White (2007)

Heraldic Discs

The design presented in this catalog are called mom or monsho in Japanese, and for most part they are a by-product of war. Men first began to use them for identification on the battlefield around the end of the 20th century, when war in Japan was a pedigreed affair, and from that time on such emblems become a small but rutine part of survival in the midst of anarchy. Man whose identify was hiding by armor wore them to prevent their allies from attacking them by mistake, and also to ensure just recognition should they perform heroic deeds. Then, as centuries passed and the design gathered lore and developed familial associations, the warriors formalized and categorized them, and wore them primarily to boast of their lineage. These designs became the heraldic emblems of Japan.

Heraldic Discs

Flower Diamond (hanabishi). Alongside the diamond, one of the earliest known textile patterns in Japan was the carabana, or “China Flower” which follows below, and the natural melding of the two produced in the four-petaled “Flower Diamont” The alternative name for this motif carabanabishi makes the combination explicit . The diamond category overall was one of the most popular Japanese heraldic motifs.

Flower Diamond on Pedestal (2008)

Unique Cast

We used star foam as a mold Fiber-Reinforced Concrete is added, because of its high strength and roughs surface finish, to preserve the beautiful shapes it is the best of choice for the cast this project . In addition cement and Sand Mix. Also Surface Bonding Cement are flexible enough to be used in a variety of cast projects. For even greater sculpturability with thin projects, Cement is ideal. Its fast setting time allows it to be removed from the form and either carved with a utility knife or worked in some other fashion.

Cosmos (2009)

Mecano (2009)

Unique Cast

Totem Forgotten (2009)

Reverence (2009)

Stargate (2009)

Chac-Mool (2009)

Negative Space (2009) Eagle Eye (2009)

Fountains

The sound and sparkle of moving water is often a pleasing focal point in a garden. We like the simplest mean of combination sculpture with water, but we are looking forward to experimenting with some new and unusual ways to use water

Cascade (2010)

Blue Fountain (2010)

The Super Bowl (2010)

Fountains

The Labyrinth (2010)

The Gray Bowl (2010)

R2D2 (2010)

Black Moon (2010)

Fences and Benches

STB 03 (2011)

STB 02 (2011)

STB 04 (2011)

STB 07 (2011) STB 06 (2011)

Fences and Benches

Red Moon Gate (2012)

Eclipse Gate (2012)

Bamboo Fence (2012)

Garden Sculptures

Cartoons

He’s so Full of Himself (2013)

I’ve Got a Full Plate (2013)

Pick your Brain (2013)

I’ve Got a Full Plate (2013)

Thinking outside the Box (2013)

It’s a Brainer (2013)

Bad Hair Day (2013)

At the end of the Day (2013)

Pushing the Envelope (2013)

Mixed Media There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. For example, a work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage could properly be called a "mixed media" work, but not a work of "multimedia art." The term multimedia art implies a broader scope than mixed media, combining visual art with non-visual elements (such as recorded sound, for example) or with elements of the other arts (such as literature, drama, dance, motion graphics, music, or interactivity).

Fibonacci Diptyc (2014)

Oportunities (2014) Delta River (2014)

Mixed Media Miss Havisham's father was a wealthy brewer and her mother had died shortly after she was born. He married again in secret and conceived a son, Arthur, with the family cook, but Miss Havisham's relationship with her brother was far from harmonious. As an adult, she inherited most of her father's fortune and fell in love with a man named Compeyson, who had conspired with the jealous Arthur to swindle her of her riches. Her cousin Matthew Pocket warned her to be careful, but she was too much in love to listen. On the wedding day, while she was dressing, Miss Havisham received a letter from Compeyson and realised he haddefrauded her and she had been left at the altar. Humiliated and heartbroken, Miss Havisham suffered a mental breakdown and remained alone in her decaying mansion Satis House- never removing her wedding dress, wearing only one shoe, leaving the wedding breakfast and cake uneaten on the table, and allowing only a few people to see her. She even had the clocks in her mansion stopped at twenty minutes to nine: the exact time when she had received Compeyson's letter. Miss Havisham later had her lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, adopt a daughter for her.

Saturn Raising (2014)

Blue Donut (2014)

Mixed Media

Topkap覺 (2014)

Going Up (2014) Migraine (2014)

Negative Space (2014) Le Quattro Stagioni (2014)

Maquettes

Fragments

Steel Sculptures

New Work

Like us