J.B. Blunk | Also Known As: James Blain Blunk

Jeffrey Lipton makes a wide range of functional pots that often reference historic New England pots. He adds images drawn from the farming life he remembers growing up in a back to ...
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Biography: Jeffrey Lipton makes a wide range of functional pots that often reference historic New England pots. He adds images drawn from the farming life he remembers growing up in a back to the land family, these images are drawn directly using glaze. He has also developed a number of images of fantasy animals that are drawn on the pieces and then finished using liquid latex resist before glaze is applied. All of his work is fired in a salt atmosphere and when possible in a wood fired kiln.
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Apprenticeships & Residencies: -
1950

Apprenticeship with F. Carlton Ball

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1952

Apprenticeship with Rosanjin Kitaoji, Japan

1953
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1954

Apprenticeship with Toyo Kaneshige, Bizen, Japan

1954
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1944

Artist-in-Residence, Palos Verdes College
Primary Work Experience: 1954

Studio Potter

1957
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1962

Studio Potter, Iverness, California

Other
Public Collections: Experiment in International Living, Brattleboro, Vermont
Greens Restaurant, San Francisco, California
Grubb and Ellis, Oakland, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
Leonard Park, Mount Kisco, New York
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Oakland Museum of California Art, Oakland, California
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
Tassajara Mountain Zen Center, Carmel Valley, California
University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
Weyerhaeuser Company, Tacoma, Washington
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Blunk J.B. 100 Plates: Sculpture. Stillwater, Oklahoma: Gardiner Art Gallery, 1984.
Blunk, J B. J.B. Blunk Sculptures 1952-1977: Exhibition January 10 - February 25, 1978. Los Angeles: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1978.
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_____. “In Conversation – Alma Allen and J.B. Blunk.” La Garçonne, February 2018.
CV or Resume: Baldenebro, Allizandra
Website(s): https://www.jbblunk.com/
Tags (related topics): San Francisco, California