Virginia Poundstone

Rainbow Rose, 2013, explores many of the same themes as Poundstone’s exhibition BOG-MIA at Locust Projects in 2014. New York-based sculptor Virginia Poundstone is best known for her exquisitely crafted sculptures that examine the art historical, scientific and economic significance of flowers. Works in the exhibition took their material and formal cues from the logistical machinations of the cut flower industry in Colombia. Miami is the main point of entry for the products of this industry: retail bouquets containing carnations, roses and baby’s breath, which enter Poundstone’s practice as artifacts of a vast industrial system producing the aesthetics of popular emotion. 

Virginia Poundstone (b. 1977, Kentucky) has exhibited at numerous galleries and institutions, including KANSAS Gallery, NewYork; Cleopatra’s, New York; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; Sculpture Center, New York; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles. In 2013, she was awarded The Howard Foundation Fellowship, the Agnes Varis Fellowship at Urban Glass and was an Artist-in-Residence at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Poundstone received a BA/BFA in Writing and Fine Arts from Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design at The New School for Social Research, and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York and teaches at Parsons The New School of Design and the Maryland Institute College of the Arts (MICA) in Baltimore.