Family Shows: Ruby Neri, Torbjörn Vejvi, and Sigrid Vejvi

June 21-August 2, 2025

Family Shows: Ruby Neri, Torbjörn Vejvi, and Sigrid Vejvi is the second in our series highlighting artwork made by all members of a single family. Inspired by the family exhibitions held at the Blunk House in the 1980s, this show brings together new paintings, large-scale figural ceramics, and never-before-exhibited functional ceramics by Neri; painted hand-turned wooden lamps by Vejvi; and artwork by their daughter, Sigrid.

Though she spent much of her childhood in West Marin, Neri (b. 1970) has rarely exhibited here. Visiting the Blunk House brought memories of riding her pony to the local school—where JB Blunk’s children also went and his wife Christine Nielson taught—and the wild freedom of being out in the woods after sunset. Known for the interplay between her figural paintings and ceramics, Neri debuts a new body of work—including functional ceramics that extend her visual language into domestic forms, echoing Blunk’s own cross-disciplinary approach.

Vejvi (b. 1972), raised on a self-sufficient farm in Southern Sweden, brings a tactile sensibility to his sculptural practice, obliquely shaped by a childhood of raising sheep and weaving. Over the past decade, he’s shifted from abstract sculpture to functional, hand-turned wooden lamps and candleholders; as with his sculptural practice, he transforms everyday materials through meticulous craftsmanship and vibrant color. His new lamps are vibrant color studies that subtly mirror the palette of Neri’s work—peachy salmon, teal, and olive—bridging their distinct yet parallel practices.

This edition of Family Shows is a meditation on lineage—both inherited and self-created. Neri and Vejvi, partners in life and work for over two decades, share a deeply material-based practice that often overlaps in the studio. Raising their daughter, Sigrid, has also been a creative process. Raised in Los Angeles with frequent trips to the Bay Area and rural Sweden, she inherits not only three geographical homes but a layered creative legacy. For Neri, this exhibition marks a return to Bay Area influence; for Vejvi, it continues his playful balance of utility and form; for Sigrid, it opens the path to choose—or depart from—those traditions entirely.