Real Simple rounded up their rug picks in an article published online this month, and “Rug One,” which I designed for Work in Progress LA, was one of them!
Check out the full article “The 20 Best Rugs for Every Style and Budget” and go snag a rug for yourself at Work In Progress LA!
Special thank you to writer Hannah Baker for including the rug in her recommendations! (PS: Check out her GORGEOUS portfolio here!)
The rugs I designed for Work In Progress LA were featured in Architectural Digest! Writer Alia Akkam says I have a “flair for layering stripes” - I’ll take it!
Read the excerpt about my work from the article below, and see the full article, “7 New Design Collabs We’re Loving Right Now—From Ini Archibong, Uchronia, and More” for even more gorgeousness.
Jessica Poundstone x Work in Progress
Drawing from the Light and Space movement, Portland, Oregon–based artist Jessica Poundstone’s vivid, digitally conceptualized prints have sparked two graphic rug styles for L.A. design collective Work in Progress—the sibling brand to the agency Denvir Enterprises. The pigment-rich flat weave rugs, available in five colorways across two patterns, illuminate Poundstone’s flair for layering stripes. With an assist from ethical sourcing platform Nomadory, the cotton flooring coverings are sustainably produced in Bhadohi, India, each handwoven and hand-dyed by a third-generation family-owned business. w-i-p.la
Louis Vuitton stores in Switzerland, Connecticut, China, New Jersey, Switzerland, and Korea now have my work on their walls. See how I’m saying that and NOT EVEN FREAKING OUT? Oh wait, no, I’m still kinda freaking out.
Pictured here are Connecticut and New Jersey stores featuring Color Space 62: Late Sky; Color Space 63: Inside A Peony; Color Space 40; and a custom horizontal version of Color Moment 1. Thank you to the Louis Vuitton team for showcasing my work & sharing these pictures! If you see one in the wild, let me know! Having been to the Louis Vuitton store in Paris, I can highly recommend a trip into any Louis Vuitton location: they are a wonderland of fashion and design. Happy Monday everybody!!! 🌈❤️
Color Space 40 in Louis Vuitton’s Short Hills, New Jersey store
Color Space 62: Late Sky & Color Space 63: Inside A Peony in Louis Vuitton’s Natick, Connecticut store
Color Moment 1 in Louis Vuitton’s Short Hills, New Jersey store
My art collection exclusively for Anthropologie and Artfully Walls launched today! Aka I’m an Anthropologie artist! The styling the Anthropologie designers did for the imagery is, of course, gorgeous.
All of my artwork is available on Anthropologie’s site via the links below - (click the pictures or the caption to get there)! So excited to share the love, color and good vibes with more people in the world. Woohooooooooo!!!! If you get one, send a pic to jessica@jessicapoundstone.com or tag me on Instagram - I’d love love love to see it!
Color Space Wall Art by Jessica Poundstone available at Anthropologie. Color Space 3 (left) and Color Space 27: Keep Love at the Center (right)
A whole lotta goodness is going to be coming at you Portland folks on November 27 from 3-7pm!
I am very honored to have been invited to have a pop-up art show at Lisa Congdon’s studio! I’ll be there all afternoon to chat and offer up some prints, originals, small sculptures and books for you to keep for yourself or give as gifts!
It’s all part of a Small Business Saturday Celebration! More details are at Lisa’s website right here. In addition to a DJ and craft cocktails (what!) you'll have a chance to snag all of the art and gifts you need for you and your friends from all of these fine folks!
Clockwise from top left: Amy Rowan, A Sometimes Gallery; Lisa Congdon, Anna Joyce & Jessica Poundstone - that’s me!
- Lisa Congdon will have her shop (687 N Tillamook Street) chock full of goodness, as usual!
- Amy Rowan's A Sometimes Gallery (which is in the back of Lisa's studio) is hosting a curated small works art show featuring more than 20 local artists- nothing over $150! I'll have some work there too!
- Textile artist and Lisa's next-door-neighbor Anna Joyce will be having an open house so you can snag some of her absolutely gorgeous hand-dyed work.
Mark your calendars, and come hang out, won't you? You'll be offering direct support for so many amazing artists! Plus it's gonna be a super duper fun time.
Color As Comfort, my very first solo show, is now up at Rare Device in San Francisco!
Here’s my artist statement about the show:
“I love that surrounding ourselves with images and objects we love is a way to create our own personal support system of symbols. As we build our collections over many years, each piece — whether it’s a piece of art or a rock from a sidewalk in Paris — has the power to create and store fond memories, good vibes, and positive energy.
My highest hope is that my work — which is primarily about exploring how color can make us feel — will be part of the self-care practice of bringing beauty and meaning into our spaces. I want my work to be a continuous source of joy, playfulness, and meaning for my collectors. Color as comfort.
In addition to showing my fine art prints, I’m also thrilled to share new original works — paintings and art objects I’m calling totems. Both have small footprints and big hearts :)”
It’s so awesome to me that my first show would be at Rare Device. The first time I went to the store was in 2007, which wasn’t so long after Rena Tom, who I “knew” from Flickr, had opened it. It’s been a special, can’t-miss-a-visit-when-I’m-in-SF place to me ever since. I’ve loved watching the magic that Lisa Congdon and now Giselle Gyalzen and Rachel Robertson and team have created. I’m honestly still pinching myself that this is all real and actually happening.
If you are in San Francisco I hope you’ll swing through and experience the magic for yourself - and hopefully enjoy the show!!!
If you’re interested in snagging some work from the show even if you’re not in San Francisco, you can shop the Rare Device website! Thank you team Rare Device!!!!! ✨🙏✨
When Victoria, founder of the truly gorgeous and extremely awesome Paper Epiphanies asked me to be the very first artist in residence for the month of October, saying “YASSSSSSS!!!!!” was a no brainer.
We're having an opening party tomorrow, Friday 10/8 to celebrate and you're invited! We'll be hanging out from 3-7pm - there will be wine, awesome stuff and good vibes galore. (Paper Epiphanies is at 2501 SE Clinton Street.) I’ll also have a handful of my “Here For You” books, originals, mini-prints and other exciting stuff you can see/touch/feel in person!
Can't make it or don't live near here? You can still shop Paper Epiphanies online, and the cards Victoria writes are like if your BFF had been a standup comedian, and she's writing all of your cards for you. (It's like that because that's Victoria's deal, she is amazing.)
A few of my faves - quite excellent to have on hand because you know you’re gonna need 'em ;)
Hope to see some of you there tomorrow, but stop by anytime this month to see a bunch of my work in person!
Look at these gorgeous pegboards!!!! So honored to have been asked by the UPROOT^D team to collaborate on these, because who doesn't need an arty background for their “I just got home” stuff or their “above the changing table” stuff or their “random bits and bobs” stuff? These make allllll that stuff look rad.
I have been SO IMPRESSED with the love and care and sweat (and let’s face it probably tears but they didn’t let on) the UPROOT^D folks put into making their vision for these a reality - prototyping, trying different art, sanding things down when they didn’t work and trying again until everything met their standards which, y’all, are VERY HIGH.
If you need one of these in your life, head over to the UPROOT^D website and snag it, because there's a limited first run of these! Thanks once again to all the amazing folks involved in this collaboration!
I am so flipping excited to share that after years of people telling me I should make rugs with my designs I've done it!
Me in LA seeing the rugs in person for the first time! This one is the Wild Cherry colorway!
I was tapped by Emma Holland Denvir & Kevin Lee of the (womxn/queer-owned!) brand Work In Progress LA (a sister company to Denvir Enterprises) to create designs in five colorways.
The rugs are handmade by artisans in India who work with (another womxn-owned company!) Nomadory, which is committed to sustainable practices and a completely transparent supply chain.
Hand-dyed cotton for the Blueberry rug!
Blueberry rug on the loom!!!
Me holding my Peach baby ;)
I am so proud of the finished products, and I hope you'll love them too! You can pre-order rugs right now over the Work In Progress LA website. They’ll also be available at select retailers next year.
Whether there's a rug in your future or not, do consider hitting that follow button on Instagram for Work In Progress and Nomadory — share and like a pic or two while you’re at it! It's a lovely, easy way to support their work and their business :)
Woohooooooo bringing my art to your house / business / floors is SO EXCITING TO ME!!! Questions? Get in touch anytime!
Big news: the designlovefest X Casetify 2021 collection is out, and I am in it!!!
For many years now, Bri Emery, the beautiful genius behind designlovefest, has curated a collection for Casetify; I was thrilled and honored to have landed on her radar, and gotten to partner with her in creating tech accessories featuring my artwork that I TRULY LOVE.
Designs from my Color Space, Color Ideas and Color Cloud collections are now on allllll kinds of tech accessories — from phones to watchbands to iPod cases, and more!
Thank you SO MUCH to Bri for reaching out, and for creating these gorgeous photos with Kat Borchart & Natalie Shriver and for making such a happy-times-good-vibes collection.
