Twenties: Decade in Polaroid, 1999-2008
work by Erin Fussell
Reception: Saturday, February 4, 7-9pm
Exhibit Dates: February 3-25, 2012

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In 1999, the year Erin Fussell turned twenty, she bought a Polaroid camera second-hand. Polaroid stopped making the instant film in 2008, the same year she turned twenty-nine. The immediate, alluring Polaroid film parallels a twenty-something experience—that wild spontaneity with changing responsibility; of losing and creating relationships, habits and ideas. A turbulent, emotional experience is translated visually through scratches, ink and other imperfections left on the image. Imperfections prove the only copy of the image was made in the moment and carried through time. These images, taken in several states, both physical and mental, pay tribute to the Polaroid and the fabulous, rollercoaster time of young adulthood.

About the Artist
Erin Fussell grew up in Portland, Oregon and has made her home in Asheville for the last seven and a half years. She recently returned from Penland School of Crafts where she was a winter artist resident in printmaking and teaches at Roots and Wings School of Art. Along with art making, she is a mean cook and takes care of an orange, three-legged cat.