Usable artworks in terrycloth
100% cotton towels
For the beach or the home
Designed by rising artists
And jacquard-woven in the USA
Limited editions for art lovers
And gourmet bathers alike
With other sunshine essentials
Handmade by our talented friends
A project by Jessica Thornton Murphy
In San Francisco, California
Made possible by:
ARTISTS
- Tyler Cross
- Mark Ochinero
- Rachel Kaye
- Chelsea Wong
- Rob Moss Wilson
- Kidtofer
- Lena Gustafson
- Charlotte Beavers
- Oliver Hawk Holden
- Maria Paz
- Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
- Momo Gordon
- Wardell McNeal
- Yulia Zinshtein
- Solange Roberdeau
- Daisy Sheff & Karen Barbour
- Craig Calderwood
- Tate Kim
- Aaron Elvis Jupin
- Molly Bounds
- Jessica Thornton Murphy
Sun Buns
June 2020
Tyler Cross is a painter and ceramic artist based in Oakland, California. His drawings help shape the colorful sculptures and vessels he makes with his partner, Kyle Lypka, which speak about deep love, history, connection, and metaphor.
Friendly Assembly
August 2020
Mark Ochinero is a Bay Area-born illustrator and photographer currently based in Seattle, Washington. His work captures the humor and irony of everyday life and objects: whether he's using a camera, gel pens, crayons, or ceramics, Mark always offers a playful change of perspective.
Wavy Blades
September 2020
Rachel Kaye is an artist based in San Francisco, California. Her love of fashion and textiles has informed a meditative study in collage, pattern, and movement where her paintings come to life in vibrant melodies of color and shapes.
Dans le Sable
October 2020
Chelsea Wong is a painter and muralist whose work reflects a deep love of her San Francisco, California community. Celebrating diversity and color and infusing happiness and joy, Chelsea creates flourishing scenes (both real and imaginary) that share some of life's best moments.
Chelsea's Instagram
Chelsea's Website
Chelsea on Its Nice That
Cumulus Humilis
November 2020
Rob Moss Wilson is an artist based in Martinez, California. His work captures the simplest things that make you feel the best: lying on your back and finding creatures in the clouds, doing cartwheels on grass, swimming in the buff under the warm sun. His words from an interview with It's Nice That ~ "I want people to feel good about being alive".
Wetboi
December 2020
Christopher Gale, also known as Kidtofer, is an artist and illustrator based in Oakland, California and originally from Bangkok, Thailand. His work in ceramic, paint, and illustration unabashedly celebrates sexuality, color, and pop culture.
Open Water
February 2021
Lena Gustafson is an artist from San Francisco, CA who lives and works in the East Bay. Between her multi-disciplinary art practice and Night Diver, the collaborative press she runs with her partner, Lena keeps pumping out incredible work that touches on transformation, the body, the environment, and connects herself to her community.
Lena's Instagram
Lena's Website
Night Diver Press
Poppies
March 2021
Charlotte Beavers is a California artist currently settled in Morro Bay. Her delicate and delightful watercolor paintings celebrate the magical landscapes found all across her home state.
Charlotte's instagram
Charlotte's website
Charlotte on If You Were Here Now
Shrimp Boy
April 2021
Oliver Hawk Holden grew up in a small coastal town in Maine before moving to San Francisco and giving it a go in the arts. He makes humorous, often kinetic sculpture, sculptural paintings, and runs a small art handling company called Expert Art Workers.
My Angels Are All Of You
May 2021
Maria Paz, born in Quilpue, Chile, is a self-taught sculptor based in Oakland, California. She paints gripping visions of her past on large ceramic vessels, using bright colors to tell intricate stories of her history, ancestry, and identity.
Center Black Rest
June 2021
In support of Headlands Center for the Arts
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is an artist, activist, educator, storyteller & curator who lives and works between Ohlone Land [Oakland, CA] and Powhatan Land [Richmond,VA]. Lukaza creates lyrical mixed-media artworks that weave craft, text, and bright color to speak about identity, activism, and community. Their diligent, immersive work is a call to action, reminding us all that positive change and a brighter future is possible through ongoing mutual support and organization.
Lukaza's website
Lukaza's Instagram
Lukaza's interview on Variable West
Chair Towel
June 2021
Momo Gordon is a self-taught artist born in Hessen, Germany and now based in Portland, Oregon, USA. Momo is focused on the emotional landscape; Working with graphite and handmade paper, their work explores sentient spaces, hostile architecture, and anthropized objects. In sequential works or standalone pieces, characters often have four walls.
Momo's Instagram
Momo's interview with Post-Comics
Momo in So Young Magazine
Moon Stories
August 2021
Wardell McNeal is a painter from San Diego who is currently making work in Oakland, California. His background in industrial design informs an introspective exploration of the emotional landscape in sensual color and wandering depths.
1-800-CALL-ME
August 2021
Yulia Zinshtein is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles who was raised between Moscow and Philadelphia. Through her paintings, photography, and illustrations she playfully explores themes like the beauty of longing, human connection and nostalgia.
Moonglade
October 2021
Solange Roberdeau is an artist and educator based in Elk, California. Her work focuses on her relationship to materiality and process; a maker deeply connected to the present moment and her practice.
Solange's Website
Solange's Instagram
Solange at Municipal Bonds
Blinky Dress
November 2021
Karen Barbour and Daisy May Sheff are a mother and daughter pair based in Inverness, California. Both are exquisite, prolific painters whose work dips into the subconscious and summons magical narratives overflowing with wild, fantastical color. Twisted folky fairytales swirl and swell, landscapes appear and disappear, characters spin within scenes that are at once comical and dark. Although they show work separately it is clear Daisy and Karen have influenced each other’s work immensely, making their towel collaboration extra sweet.
Karen's Instagram
Karen's website
Daisy's Instagram
Daisy at White Columns
Butterfly Sprain
December 2021
Often using affordable craft materials and found textiles, Craig Calderwood creates thoughtful and wildly intricate, vibrantly colored illustrations that offer a glimpse into their private world. Their artworks incorporate a personal language of signs, symbols, and patterns that are heavily researched and repurposed to narrate visual expressions of "desire, biodiversity, and otherness". Craig is based in San Francisco, California.
Craig's Instagram
Craig's website
Craig at George Adams Gallery
Swimmers Tee
February 2021
Tate Kim is a mysto artist from San Diego, California. He’s one of the most authentic people ever, a curious and prolific drawing maker who’s extra talented on just about every level and makes it all look easy ~ surfing, skating, making movies, drawing, existing. He’s creative and humble and respectful and sweet. The world is a much better, stranger place with Tate in it.
Sticky Everywhere
April 2022
Aaron Elvis Jupin is a painting and drawing maker based in Los Angeles, California. His work grapples with nostalgia, memory, and change; his subversion of symbols drawn from American suburbia and popular culture creates moments that are at once silly, uncanny, and sometimes too familiar.
Aaron's Website
Aaron's Instagram
Layman's Terms, Tongue Tied at Moskowitz Bayse
Body Heat
May 2022
Molly Bounds is a painter and printmaker currently living in Los Angeles. Born in Texas and raised in Colorado, she works to communicate the fault in the understanding of human agency. Torn between an aggravated still and a sequence of motion, subjects appear calm but unsettling, caught between frames as their states of being are exaggerated through posture and profile. In less than uncanny portraits, she instead dwells on the likeness of indecision, wavering through urgency, doubt, and complete ambivalence. Forcing viewers into spectating roles, she poses woulda-shoulda-couldas in windows and doorways leading to a purgatory of her design, stuck in an elongated moment where someone needs to make a decision.
Molly's Instagram
Molly on PLATFORM
Molly in Juxtapoz
Nude Beach
July 2020
Jessica Thornton Murphy is based in San Francisco, California. She started Plunge in May 2020 as a way to celebrate the work of the many talented rising artists in her community and beyond.
Jess's Website
Jess's Instagram
Hand Towel ~ September 2021
Butt Stuff ~ January 2022
COLLABORATORS
- Natalie Vall-Freed
- Sophie Templin
- Tom Gilpatrick
- Penelope Anstruther
- Macayli Hausmann
- Matt Katsaros
- Sean Curtice
- Headlands Center for the Arts
- Rachel Turner
- Tiny Splendor
- Forthrite Printing
- Cass Cleave
- Jet Caputo
- Interzone Studio
STOCKISTS
Sun Buns
June 2020
Tyler Cross is a painter and ceramic artist based in Oakland, California. His drawings help shape the colorful sculptures and vessels he makes with his partner, Kyle Lypka, which speak about deep love, history, connection, and metaphor.
Friendly Assembly
August 2020
Mark Ochinero is a Bay Area-born illustrator and photographer currently based in Seattle, Washington. His work captures the humor and irony of everyday life and objects: whether he's using a camera, gel pens, crayons, or ceramics, Mark always offers a playful change of perspective.
Wavy Blades
September 2020
Rachel Kaye is an artist based in San Francisco, California. Her love of fashion and textiles has informed a meditative study in collage, pattern, and movement where her paintings come to life in vibrant melodies of color and shapes.
Dans le Sable
October 2020
Chelsea Wong is a painter and muralist whose work reflects a deep love of her San Francisco, California community. Celebrating diversity and color and infusing happiness and joy, Chelsea creates flourishing scenes (both real and imaginary) that share some of life's best moments.
Chelsea's Instagram
Chelsea's Website
Chelsea on Its Nice That
Cumulus Humilis
November 2020
Rob Moss Wilson is an artist based in Martinez, California. His work captures the simplest things that make you feel the best: lying on your back and finding creatures in the clouds, doing cartwheels on grass, swimming in the buff under the warm sun. His words from an interview with It's Nice That ~ "I want people to feel good about being alive".
Wetboi
December 2020
Christopher Gale, also known as Kidtofer, is an artist and illustrator based in Oakland, California and originally from Bangkok, Thailand. His work in ceramic, paint, and illustration unabashedly celebrates sexuality, color, and pop culture.
Open Water
February 2021
Lena Gustafson is an artist from San Francisco, CA who lives and works in the East Bay. Between her multi-disciplinary art practice and Night Diver, the collaborative press she runs with her partner, Lena keeps pumping out incredible work that touches on transformation, the body, the environment, and connects herself to her community.
Lena's Instagram
Lena's Website
Night Diver Press
Poppies
March 2021
Charlotte Beavers is a California artist currently settled in Morro Bay. Her delicate and delightful watercolor paintings celebrate the magical landscapes found all across her home state.
Charlotte's instagram
Charlotte's website
Charlotte on If You Were Here Now
Shrimp Boy
April 2021
Oliver Hawk Holden grew up in a small coastal town in Maine before moving to San Francisco and giving it a go in the arts. He makes humorous, often kinetic sculpture, sculptural paintings, and runs a small art handling company called Expert Art Workers.
My Angels Are All Of You
May 2021
Maria Paz, born in Quilpue, Chile, is a self-taught sculptor based in Oakland, California. She paints gripping visions of her past on large ceramic vessels, using bright colors to tell intricate stories of her history, ancestry, and identity.
Center Black Rest
June 2021
In support of Headlands Center for the Arts
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is an artist, activist, educator, storyteller & curator who lives and works between Ohlone Land [Oakland, CA] and Powhatan Land [Richmond,VA]. Lukaza creates lyrical mixed-media artworks that weave craft, text, and bright color to speak about identity, activism, and community. Their diligent, immersive work is a call to action, reminding us all that positive change and a brighter future is possible through ongoing mutual support and organization.
Lukaza's website
Lukaza's Instagram
Lukaza's interview on Variable West
Chair Towel
June 2021
Momo Gordon is a self-taught artist born in Hessen, Germany and now based in Portland, Oregon, USA. Momo is focused on the emotional landscape; Working with graphite and handmade paper, their work explores sentient spaces, hostile architecture, and anthropized objects. In sequential works or standalone pieces, characters often have four walls.
Momo's Instagram
Momo's interview with Post-Comics
Momo in So Young Magazine
Moon Stories
August 2021
Wardell McNeal is a painter from San Diego who is currently making work in Oakland, California. His background in industrial design informs an introspective exploration of the emotional landscape in sensual color and wandering depths.
1-800-CALL-ME
August 2021
Yulia Zinshtein is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles who was raised between Moscow and Philadelphia. Through her paintings, photography, and illustrations she playfully explores themes like the beauty of longing, human connection and nostalgia.
Moonglade
October 2021
Solange Roberdeau is an artist and educator based in Elk, California. Her work focuses on her relationship to materiality and process; a maker deeply connected to the present moment and her practice.
Solange's Website
Solange's Instagram
Solange at Municipal Bonds
Blinky Dress
November 2021
Karen Barbour and Daisy May Sheff are a mother and daughter pair based in Inverness, California. Both are exquisite, prolific painters whose work dips into the subconscious and summons magical narratives overflowing with wild, fantastical color. Twisted folky fairytales swirl and swell, landscapes appear and disappear, characters spin within scenes that are at once comical and dark. Although they show work separately it is clear Daisy and Karen have influenced each other’s work immensely, making their towel collaboration extra sweet.
Karen's Instagram
Karen's website
Daisy's Instagram
Daisy at White Columns
Butterfly Sprain
December 2021
Often using affordable craft materials and found textiles, Craig Calderwood creates thoughtful and wildly intricate, vibrantly colored illustrations that offer a glimpse into their private world. Their artworks incorporate a personal language of signs, symbols, and patterns that are heavily researched and repurposed to narrate visual expressions of "desire, biodiversity, and otherness". Craig is based in San Francisco, California.
Craig's Instagram
Craig's website
Craig at George Adams Gallery
Swimmers Tee
February 2021
Tate Kim is a mysto artist from San Diego, California. He’s one of the most authentic people ever, a curious and prolific drawing maker who’s extra talented on just about every level and makes it all look easy ~ surfing, skating, making movies, drawing, existing. He’s creative and humble and respectful and sweet. The world is a much better, stranger place with Tate in it.
Sticky Everywhere
April 2022
Aaron Elvis Jupin is a painting and drawing maker based in Los Angeles, California. His work grapples with nostalgia, memory, and change; his subversion of symbols drawn from American suburbia and popular culture creates moments that are at once silly, uncanny, and sometimes too familiar.
Aaron's Website
Aaron's Instagram
Layman's Terms, Tongue Tied at Moskowitz Bayse
Body Heat
May 2022
Molly Bounds is a painter and printmaker currently living in Los Angeles. Born in Texas and raised in Colorado, she works to communicate the fault in the understanding of human agency. Torn between an aggravated still and a sequence of motion, subjects appear calm but unsettling, caught between frames as their states of being are exaggerated through posture and profile. In less than uncanny portraits, she instead dwells on the likeness of indecision, wavering through urgency, doubt, and complete ambivalence. Forcing viewers into spectating roles, she poses woulda-shoulda-couldas in windows and doorways leading to a purgatory of her design, stuck in an elongated moment where someone needs to make a decision.
Molly's Instagram
Molly on PLATFORM
Molly in Juxtapoz
Nude Beach
July 2020
Jessica Thornton Murphy is based in San Francisco, California. She started Plunge in May 2020 as a way to celebrate the work of the many talented rising artists in her community and beyond.
Jess's Website
Jess's Instagram
Hand Towel ~ September 2021
Butt Stuff ~ January 2022