JB Blunk: Earth, Water, and Fire: Online
Current exhibition
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“I’d like to show the people…this material and way of using just earth, water, and fire.” —JB Blunk -
On the occasion of the artist's first European retrospective JB Blunk: Continuum, on view at Fondation d’entreprise Martell in France through December 29, Kasmin presents a selection of work from the JB Blunk Estate. Staged exclusively online, the presentation underscores Blunk’s singular style and proclivity toward ancestral forms of expression at both intimate and monumental scale.
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JB BlunkUntitled, c. 1990river stone5 1/2 x 23 x 5 1/2 inches
14 x 58.4 x 14 cm -
Blunk House, Inverness, CA. Photo: Leslie Williamson.
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JB BlunkUntitled, c. 1975-1980ceramic7 1/2 x 7 x 3/4 inches
19.1 x 17.8 x 1.9 cm -
"I like to think that the courage and independence JB has shown is typically California, or at least Western, with a continent between to be free from the categories that are called art.…JB does them honour in carving them as he does, finding true art in the working, allowing their ponderous bulk, waking them from their long sleep to become part of our own life and times, sharing with us the afterglow of a land that was once here."
—Isamu Noguchi -
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Archival images courtesy of the JB Blunk Estate
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Visit the Retrospective
Photo: Sylvie Becquet
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The Blunk Shop & Monograph
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About the Artist
JB Blunk in his studio in Inverness, California, c. 1968 -
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