New Sun Studio, Samuel Dilts Hesse

URBAN NATURE

Stone Sculptures by SAM HESSE.

Sam’s passion for sculpture, and his artistic vision have taken him to many places around the world. He has journeyed from Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic to Pietrasanta, the sculpture capital of Italy; from Michelangelo’s
marble quarries to Shanghai, China. In China he was a commissioned sculptor for a Sichuan Earthquake Memorial, as well as gallery curator at the Fellini Gallery in Shanghai's French Quarter.

His work is in private collections around the globe, and has been exhibited in galleries in Whistler, Calgary, Tofino, Ucluelet, Port Alberni, Ladysmith, Saltspring Island, Victoria, and Vancouver.

Urban nature is a continuance of Hesse's expression of Transformation seen in his earlier work. In this new series, the lifestyles and culture of young male West Coasters are presented as slick, black Cormorants solid in their transition from animal to man, and back again. On the West Coast of Vancouver Island, Urban and the Natural come together in peace to communicate the super-natural union of all beings.

In the arctic Hesse learned of the Angakoq, which means 'one who has spirits'. For the Inuit, this Shaman provided stories of animals for the people to connect with, to re-measure the earth through the eyes of the experts - the animals. Transformations of a man's to an animal's spirit is seen much in the Inuit stories told by way of sculpture. Hesse asks us to consider the Cormorant...the master of many mediums dependent on the Sun to facilitate His transition.

A remarkable flock of Black Cormorants will be exhibited in the foyer of the Black Rock Oceanfront Resort in Ucluelet. Hesse's work will be on display until October.

Title: Cormorant Boy - The Re-birth, 2010 (3 pieces)
Medium: Kootenay Black Chlorite
Dimension: 4.5 feet tall x 3.5 feet wide, approx. 500 lbs.
Price upon request.
Location: Black Rock Oceanfront Resort, Ucluelet, BC.


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Title: Cormorant Boy - Prophecy in Real Time, 2008 (3 pieces with water component)
Medium: Brazilian Stone, Glass, Red Cedar, Copper, and Water (with the water this piece weighs approx. 300 lbs).
Dimension: 20 inches x 18 inches x 15 inches.
Price upon request.
Location: Black Rock Oceanfront Resort, Ucluelet, BC.

 

Title: Cormorant Boy - Paternity Analysis, 2006
Medium: South African Pyrophyllite, Chinese Alabaster, Yukon Soapstone, Kootenay Black Chlorite, Hawaiian Black Coral
Dimension (main piece): 24 Inches x 12 inches x 5 inches deep (approx. 50 lbs)
Price upon request.
Location: Black Tusk Art Gallery, Whistler, BC.

 

Title: Lao Tzu, 2009
Dimensions: 5 inches long x 4 inches wide x 6 inches tall (approx. 10 lbs)
Medium: Pyrophyllite
Price upon request.
Location: Galiano Island, BC

 

Title: West Coast Bear, 2008
Dimensions: 6 feet
Medium: Italian Green Marble (approx. 1500 lbs)
Not available.
Location: Victoria, BC.