Martino Gamper & Adam Pogue

Opening Reception:
* Saturday,  October 21, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Exhibition Dates:
* October 21 – December 3

Blunk Space presents Martino Gamper & Adam Pogue

London-based designer Martino Gamper and LA-based artist Adam Pogue have both spent time at JB Blunk’s home and studio in Inverness, California.

Like Blunk’s, their work is playful, intuitive, and resourceful, investing their intentionally-designed objects with the chance of abstraction.

For Gamper and Pogue, the need to make something useful yet creative is a puzzle to be intuitively resolved, just as Blunk believed “the process is the doing, the bringing together.”

While Gamper’s practice includes interiors, design objects, and textiles of all scales and types, one of his foundational projects, 100 Chairs in 100 Days, involved collecting discarded chairs on the streets of London and making one new chair each day from the old. The resulting amalgamations were humorous and thought-provoking, a hodgepodge of seating and questions about seating.

Pogue has created his own textile appliqué language, inspired by Korean bojagi and traditional quilting techniques, using textile remnants and vintage fabrics sourced from LA’s Garment District, where he lives. The resulting artworks are patchworks of playful grids and incidental orthogonals.

For this show, both Gamper and Pogue will work without preconceived ideas, making intuitively and allowing the materials at hand to govern the resulting works. Gamper will use salvaged wood from local wood sawyer Evan Shively to produce cutting boards, mirrors and a table; Pogue will make a large-scale wall hanging, cushions, and textile artworks.