Publications
Architectural Digest, March 2024
1stDibs, March 2024
Galerie Magazine, March 2024
Wallpaper Mag, March 2024
LA Times, February 2024
Surface Mag, February 2024
Beaux Arts, January 2024
C Magazine, November 2023
Untapped, October 2023
Marin IJ, July 2023
Wallpaper*, July 2023
Creative Voyage, June 2023
Artnet, November 2022
Cultured Mag, November 2022
TOAST, February 2022
Hole & Corner Issue 22: Family, January 2022
The Lost Chapter by Leslie Williamson, December 2021
The Guardian/The Observer Magazine, October 2021
Studio AHEAD, September 2021
Elle Decor China, September 2021
MarinArts, August 2021
Sabato, March 2021
Milk Decoration 35, 2021
Apollo, October 2020
The Design Edit, October 2020
Design Miami, October 2020
Cultured, October 2020
Financial Times, September 2020
Hole & Corner, August 2020
AnOther, July 2020
Totokaelo, July 2020
Cereal, July 2020
Antiques and The Arts Weekly, July 2020
Departures, June 2020
Wallpaper*, Summer 2020
T Magazine, May 2020
Studio Potter, May 2020
World of Interiors, November 2018
Frieze profile, September 2018
Architectural Digest, July 2018
San Francisco Chronicle, exhibition review, June 2018
C Magazine, May 2018
San Francisco Magazine, April 2018
The New Order, Vol. 18, Spring/Summer 2018
Wallpaper, February 2018
La Garconne, February 2018
Architectural Digest, February 2018
SPACES, Marin Magazine, Winter/Spring 2018
Modern Magazine, Winter 2018
Remodelista, Issue 51, December 2017
her. Magazine, Volume 04, 2017
MacGuffin Magazine, Issue No. 4 – The Sink, 2017
Mohawk Maker Quarterly, Issue 11, 2017
Art Agenda exhibition review, January 2017
Frieze exhibition review, January 2017
New York Times Style Magazine, November 2016
Apartamento, Issue 18, 2016
Maharam Stories, October 2016
The Modern House, April 2016
New York Times, November 2015
Cultured Magazine, Winter 2015
Apartamento, Issue 08, 2013
Man of the World, No. 4, 2013
Casa/Brutus, August 2012
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST Germany, March 2012
Wallpaper, January 2012
Dwell, November 2010
Casa/Brutus, November 2010
C Magazine, May 2009
California Home & Design, July 2008
American Craft, October/November 2007
World of Interiors, June 2000
Woodwork - Magazine for All Woodworkers, October 1999
Catalogues
JSP JBB: James Sterling Pitt and JB Blunk, Blunk Space, January 2023
Gordon Onslow Ford & JB Blunk, Blunk Space, November 2022
Cups, plates, bowls and sculptures: ceramics 1950 – 1999, Dent De Leone, December 2016
'JB Blunk: painting, drawing, sculpture', the Landing, 2015
'Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design’, Museum of Art and Design, New York, 2011
‘JB Blunk’, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California, 2010
‘JB Blunk: A collection of work from 1952 – 1992’, SF 20/Reform Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2008
‘The Makers Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940 – 1990’, Edward S. Cook Jr., Gerald W. R. Ward, Kelly H. L'Ecuyer (MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 2003)
‘JB Blunk: California Spirit’, Bolinas Museum, California, 2000
‘JB Blunk: 100 Plates’, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, 1984
‘JB Blunk: Sculpture’, Pickard Galleries, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1984
Books
Objects: USA 2020, Glenn Adamson (R & Company, The Monacelli Press: 2020)
JB Blunk (Blunk Books, Dent de Leone: 2020)
Alma Allen & JB Blunk: In Conversation, ed. Brooke Hodge (August Editions: 2019)
The Once and Future Forest, Save the Redwoods League (Heyday: 2018)
Handcrafted Modern, Leslie Williamson (Rizzoli International Publications: 2010)
Modern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Gloss, Todd Merrill and Julia V. Levine (Rizzoli International Publications: 2008)
Contemporary Natural, Phyllis Richardson (Thames & Hudson Ltd: 2002)
Craftsman Lifestyle: the Gentle Revolution, Olivia H. Emery (A California Design Publication: 1976)
Handmade Houses: A Guide to Woodbutcher's Art, Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro (Scrimshaw Press: 1973)
Objects: USA, Lee Nordness (Viking Press: 1970)
Exhibitions
2022 Bright Garden: JB, Bruno & Rufus Blunk, Blunk Space, Point Reyes, CA
2022 Three Landscapes: JB Blunk, Anna and Lawrence Haplrin, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2022 FOG Design + Art Fair, with Leslie Williamson and Blum & Poe, San Francisco, CA
2021 Lives of an Object, ARCH, Athens, Greece
2021 Three Forms: JB Blunk, Blunk Space, Point Reyes, CA
2021 ‘New Iconography: Artists Raising Children’, The Landing, Los Angeles, CA
2021 ‘Objects: USA 2020’, R & Company, New York, NY
2021 ‘Between Earth and Sky’, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2020 ‘Blue Jeans & Brown Clay: Artists and Designers at the JB Blunk House’, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
2020 ‘JB Blunk’, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Dallas Art Fair, with Reform/the Landing, Dallas, TX
2019 'In Conversation: Alma Allen and JB Blunk', Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2019 'Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo', Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2019 FOG Design + Art Fair, with Reform/the Landing, San Francisco, CA
2018 'JB Blunk', Kate MacGarry, London, UK
2018 Frieze New York, with Blum & Poe, New York, NY
2018 'Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo', Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2018 'JB Blunk: Nature, Art & Everyday Life', Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2018 'Marin Collects', College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Kentfield, CA
2018 'Designed in California', SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2018 'In Conversation: Alma Allen and JB Blunk', Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2018 FOG Design + Art Fair, with Reform/The Landing and Blum & Poe, San Francisco, CA
2017 'Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia', The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2017 'Chair Stories', Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2016 'JB Blunk', Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2015 'JB Blunk: painting, drawing, sculpture', the Landing, Los Angeles, CA
2015 'Art and Other Tactics', Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2012 Frieze Art Fair with Blum & Poe, New York, NY
2011 ‘Big A@# Sculpture Show’, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 'Crafting Modernism', Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2010 'The Anniversary Show', SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2010 Frieze Art Fair, Blum & Poe, New York, NY
2010 Solo show, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2008 SF20 Design Fair with Reform Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Design Miami/Basel with Reform Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Design Miami/Basel with Reform Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 Solo show, Dance Palace Community Center, Point Reyes Station, CA
2000 Solo show, ‘California Spirit’, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
1999 Group show with John Anderson, Eubank Studio, Point Reyes Station, CA
1991 Group show, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
1989 Solo show, 'Sculptures, Ceramics, Stone, Wood', Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1986 Solo show, ‘A Sculptor’s Place’, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
1984 Solo show, Pickard Galleries, Oklahoma City, OK
1984 Solo show of ceramics, ‘100 Plates Plus’, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
1983 Group show, David Cole Gallery, Inverness, CA
1982 Group show, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1982 Solo show of ceramics, ‘J.B. Blunk: 100 Plates,’ University of North Dakota, ND
1981 Solo show of ceramics, ‘100 + Plates by J.B. Blunk’, Art Space, Santa Monica, CA
1981 Solo show of ceramics, ‘100 Plates Plus’, David Cole Gallery, Inverness, CA
1978 Group show, Galerie Schreiner, Basel, Switzerland
1978 Solo show, ‘Sculptures 1952-1977’, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Group show, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1976 ‘Sculpture in the Bay Area’, James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974 ‘Outdoor Sculpture’, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1973 Group show, Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA
1970 ‘With These Hands’, ABC Documentary Film
1969 'Objects USA', Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1965 Group show, Egg and the Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1958 ‘East/West Exhibition’, San Francisco Museum, San Francisco, CA
1956 Group show at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1954 Solo show, Chuo-Koron Gallery, Tokyo, Japan