Blunk Space is pleased to announce Horizons, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Madeleine Fitzpatrick. Based in Marshall, California, Fitzpatrick is an Irish-American painter known for images of the human body which blend figuration and abstraction, with a singularly feminist perspective. Beginning in the 1980s, Fitzpatrick combined painterly gestures and deftly evoked body parts; scattered across the canvases, these parts and pieces challenged the standard approach to feminine beauty while offering a new way to experience bodies in spaces. 

Conceived as one long series, the new oil-on-paper works in the Horizons series range from abstracted landscapes to hallucinatory dreamscapes, each connected by their shared horizon line and constraint within a minuscule scale. With a palette ranging from soft yellows, pinks, and greens to lustrous deep blacks, Fitzpatrick easily ranges from more explicit bucolic scenes to formal color fields, each precious work in dynamic tension with our human tendency to identify subject and meaning.

EXTENDED THROUGH JANUARY 5, 2025!

Special holiday hours:

Friday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

Blunk Space is pleased to present a group show representative of the gallery’s mission to connect the work of living artists with that of the pioneering Northern California artist JB Blunk (1926–2002). Iconic wood and ceramic tableware and furniture by Blunk ground a dialogue with three emerging designers whose practices are similarly resourceful and intuitive: LA-based Adam Pogue, Mexico City-based Alana Burns, and London-based Rio Kobayashi. All three have collaborated with Blunk’s legacy, making work at the Blunk House and showing at Blunk Space.

Tickets are now available from Design Miami.

Blunk Space at Design Miami

December 3–8, 2024

Convention Center Drive & 19th Street
Miami Beach, FL

Blunk Space is pleased to present Rio Kobayashi & Fritz Rauh, an exhibition of new furniture by Kobayashi and historic paintings and works on paper by Rauh. Several never-before-seen paintings by Rauh, an emblematic painter of Marin’s mid-century artistic community, play against contemporary furniture made by London-based Kobayashi at the Blunk House in 2024. Connecting them through the hinge of JB Blunk’s legacy, a conversation emerges around organic forms, free intuitive expression, and vigorous color deftly bound by technical rigor. 

Opening reception January 18, 3–5pm