News – erin fussell

Annual benefit I participate in with postcard art raising funds for AIDS research coming up NYC

New artwork in progress…Helped plant 150 agaves for bats to pollinate. new friends, some ideas thru hands on

Golden Hour AIR @ Power & Light Press, Silver City, NM

First time with letterpress at Hazel & Violet in Phoenix was just BEYOND BEYOND

Shared a collage and memory from Y2K! Allied Productions, Inc. co-presents ABC No Rio 45 Years April 5th through 26th, 2025 Emily Harvey Foundation 537 Broadway, 2nd floor, NYC 10012 Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12-6 PM or by appointment Reception: April 10th from 6-8 PM

I’m participating again in Visual AIDS fundraiser show for AIDS Research xoxo Please support this good cause at Berry Campbell Gallery, NYC

Ex Postal Facto FLUXBUX.

HOLGA week October 2024, pretty stoked to break this out and participate this year, been a minute

Context for new video piece Border Wall Sky down here at the U.S.-Mexico border wall in the Sonoran Desert

STUDIO drawings everywhere 🙂

No Home Radio installation view with architecture cardboard pieces and lenticular photographs

Mail art for South Atlantic Island Tristan de Cuna’s Post Office art show

Solo show night view NO Home Radio

GRRL HAUS Cinema in Berlin coming September at Ilali Collective Art Studio

Moving Things, box in Plaster of Paris on concrete with Two of Hearts drawing on wall

Viewers of Be Here Now

Be Here Now looking up from the shag rug

NO HOME RADIO March 2024 at UAP Gallery in Loveland, CO

Excited about my new installation NO HOME RADIO

I’m participating with mail art again this year: Postcards From the Edge 2024 will be held at Berry Campbell Gallery NYC from Jan 19–21, 2024 with the online sale going live on Saturday, Jan 20, 2024. This is an annual benefit supporting Visual AIDS / AIDS Research

Super stoked… 7inch flexi-disc sound art compilation coming up with the incredible Bridge Audio out of Chicago, IL , art journal and more for over 20 years

SHAG carpet for gallery floor

New work in the works for new year 2024

Stoked! For the Ancient Bristlecone Pines

For the Ancient Bristlecone Pines gets semi-finalist status at Blow-Up International Arthouse Film Fest this year!

Artworks Center for Contemporary Art in Loveland, Colorado! My newest adventure as resident studio artist

My new studio with skylight!

Another win with the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival!

For the Ancient Bristlecone Pines debuts in July at the Orlando International Film Festival with the University of Central Florida Nicholson School of Communication and Media!

NEW FILM For the Ancient Bristlecone Pines

Safe Passage (for Sheila) participating in the global Lift-Off Network!

Los Angeles Independent Film Festival!

Safe Passage (for Sheila) screening at the 17th Annual San Francisco Frozen Film Festival! Screening with the Experimental Short Film & Visual Art section July 15th at 1:55 in the The Cut Outdoor Cinema, 250 Main St. SF, CA

BERLIN! Very excited to participate in the giant independent art festival 48 Stunden Neukölln (June 23-25, 2023) with GRRL HAUS Telephone screening at LoopHole Berlin on June 24! This year’s theme: Play(ground)

Fun interview with Kevin L. Powers at Something Wicked Docufest from back in February published this month.

New work! Topography of a Sky Field, 2023, Clear 16mm film reel with ink, paint, pen, nail polish. Direct handmade animation made in a workshop and screened at Whammy! Analog Media with Jessica G.Z. and Dro Watson in Los Angeles, CA.

Dro loading my film onto a screening reel at WHAMMY!

Finished drawing my film reel: party sculpture look

Topography of a Sky Field in the making at WHAMMY! Analog Media workshop in Los Angeles.

Great and intelligent review of Safe Passage (for Sheila) printed in FICIMAD 23 Magazine, Madrid, Spain, March 2023. Cool perspective.

Perfectly woven Erin Fussell’s film edition with precise fine strokes that entangle, captivate and
mesmerize the viewer. Fascinating review of the myth between Athena and the metamorphosis of
Arachne, where the new gods once again confine us, trap us and manage us at their will. Film
perfectly embroidered with its visual metaphors with threatening spider webs and their threads of
obsessions, addictions and terrors.

Such an honor to be a visiting artist guest speaker for the amazing folks at the Yes I Can Unity Through Music & Education! Santa Clarita, CA

Words Come Later, new neon sign at Lili Lakich Studio exhibition! My own handwriting with semi-visible wiring to showcase the handmade and industrial look. Inspired by concrete poetry, this neon sign is animated! Photo: Antonio Garcia

Friends of the Orphan Signs Retrospective exhibition at Fusion Gallery in Albuquerque, NM!

To Reach the Seventh Mountain in FOS upcoming retrospective show

Sheila gets another win!

Safe Passage (for Sheila) returns to Spain for the Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid, on March 23, 2023 at the incredible historic theater Cine Paz

NEON new work in progress

WIP

WIP

Brunch with 1717 Studio at Nancy Rubin’s in Topanga! Photo: Yayoi Shionoiri

GEORGIA February 25-26

Excited to participate in a special screening in Dubai with 8 and Halffilm with WildFilmmaker

January 24-31 virtual

BRAZIL!!!

Excited to share that two of my early films made at 2 artist residencies in 2013 are available on Vimeo On Demand: Dance in the Face of Various Deaths and Remembering & Forgetting until 9pm on June 21, summer solstice.

Prep for Santa Monica Film Festival online video introduction screening

Honorable Mention at Paris Shorts (France)!

Winter Night Forest in grey with a scent blend of cedarwood, vanilla, and spiced cloves.

Candle making workshop at Banter + Bliss in Pasadena

My candle

Santa Clarita International Film Festival Live at the Laemmle Theater in Newhall, December 11, 10am block

Color Vision Photography Exhibition at Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR. Photo: Dad

My print in the Color Vision Photography Exhibition at Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR. Photo: Dad

Mom at the Color Vision Photography Exhibition at Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR. Photo: Dad

To Reach the Seventh Mountain on the historic marquee of The Hayworth Theater on Wilshire Blvd hosted by Dynasty Typewriter!

Interview in The New Current for the Barcelona International Short Film Festival, November.

BARCELONA!

Honorable Mention at Black Panther International Film Festival, India!

To Reach the Seventh Mountain goes up on Central Ave/Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico with Friends of the Orphan Signs!

NEW work

Naked Mountain in NYC Oct 22!

Gold winner for Experimental Short! Focus International Film Festival

LA PUNK Film FEST!!

Road trip to Tucson, AZ for the Arizona Underground Film Festival screening –poster signing.

Safe Passage (for Sheila) wins Best Experimental Short Film!!

A Life On The Farm & Dress A Cow & Safe Passage (for Sheila) screen together twice at NHDocs at the Bow-Tie Criterion Cinemas in downtown New Haven, CT in October!

Short Shorts is an annual event hosted by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta. This year there will be two additional screenings of the program, one at Georgia State University and the other at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. This year’s guest juror is Joseph Peragine, director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Selected films vary widely in budget, genre, narrative, and experimentation, but all come in under five minutes in length. Participating artists: Matt Bollinger, Logan Lynn Burroughs, Felicia Ann Castro, Jacob Csinsi w/ Craig Dongoski, Didi Dunphy, McClean Fahenstock, Adam Forrester, Jill Frank, Erin Fussell, Joe Hadden, Xandra Ibarra, George Jenne, John Kelley, Derek Larson, Taylor Janay Manigoult, Jackson Markovic, Eli Meyer, Lev Omelchenko, Neil Prewitt, Caroline Rumley, Adam Stone, Constance Thalken.

Jiffy Louvre II: Leave Worry Behind (Again), Short Shorts WhiteSpace Gallery in Atlanta!

SILICON BEACH Film Festival screening at the historic TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood 9/14, 6pm sharp!!! Two minutes late and Safe Passage (for Sheila) is over. I’ll be dressed up + hiding in the back.

Honored to have Safe Passage (for Sheila) screen at Toronto Tamil Film Festival, 9/10-11 at York Cinemas 115 York Boulevard Richmond Hill, ON L4B 3B4

Wallachia Interview

NYC!!!

Finalist with ZTV and party this month in Brooklyn, NY!

Finalist at Lane Doc Fest for Best Short – Humanity!

Win for Best Super Short Film in ROME and loosely associated with FELINI!

Safe Passage (for Sheila) wins another award!

Fluxus Buck! It’s time for me to send it home after being the last mail artist to make her mark on it’s journey through the post

Best Short Documentary in VENICE!

Honored to be loosely associated with Bunuel!

Eastern European Premiere in Wallachia, Bucharest, Romania– home of the original tale of Count Dracula!

SOUTH AMERICAN Premiere in Uruguay!! Thursday, July 7th, at 6:15 PM at Cinebaar

Win in SINGAPORE!!

Indie Short Fest Los Angeles!

NEW DELHI!

Indie Shorts Mag!

ROSHANI!

Safe Passage (for Sheila) won Best Short Film in Moody Crab Fest in Moga, INDIA!

Safe Passage (for Sheila) in Vancouver, B.C. CANADA

Look out, Berlin! GRRL HAUS Telephone ’22. Twenty-one of us respond to each other’s video in a row for a final piece. Mine’s coming last in September

Colette Fu + I catching up after 10 years on a video call for 3 hours for my Getty News piece: An Artist’s Travel Pop-Up Book Series Colette Fu on making We are Tiger Dragon People

Black Box Gallery catalog for Black + White exhibition Portland, OR

Mail art for Voci e Immagini di Cura show, Italy

Building that once was the Los Angeles Woman’s Building in Duachrome. Wrapped the digitization project on the WB at the Getty Feb 22

Full Program for Linda Mary Montano’s birthday performances/screenings

Performance for Linda Montano on her 80th birthday with Franklin Furnace/ Grace Exhibition Space

Supporting AIDS research, Postcards from the Edge auction

Showing in Rome, Italy with LoosenArt

Dance in the Face of Various Deaths in Rome with LoosenArt

Playing with glass @ Bullseye Glass plate workshop

I Echo You Across Time + Space / Space + Time in Rome, Italy

PⒶW in Malta @ Kinemastik International Short Film Festival

“Safe Passage (for Sheila)” at the 27th Annual Brainwash Drive-in/Bike-in Movie Festival where George Kuchar screened at the first one

BRAINWASH Doyle, CA

Sheila’s debut at the Brainwash drive-in

‘PⒶW’ at RIFF

Humanism @ BIOS, Athens, Greece

BIOS Athens, Greece

Humanism @ BIOS, Athens, Greece

BIOS Athens, Greece

Humanism @ BIOS, Athens

BIOS Athens, Greece

Listening event @ Craft Contemporary

Safe Passage (for Sheila) receives award

Materials & Applications Radio launch

‘PⒶW’ selected for 67th International Film Festival Oberhausen

No Movement 1930s style sign by Greg Gonzalez @gregogonzosigns

No Movement @ Adams Square Mini Park gas station 6 week run all day, all night with LED lights

Public park views night radio for No Movement 24/7

No Movement 24/7 on Valentine’s Day

“How’s the weather here there?”

From January 1st to December 31st of 2020, I orchestrated a postcard exchange art project called, “How’s the weather here there?” as a way to create connections, a space for anyone to participate in an art practice, and make an abstract record of the year.

I did not know what an incredibly historic year it would become and how the importance of connecting to others in this way would carry me through the socially distanced reality of the pandemic. The instructions were to describe your current inner and outer landscape (physical space, emotional state, whatever that means to you) on a postcard and mail it to me and I would respond with one if a return address was provided.

People responded. I received about 430 postcards from 16 different countries around the world. Postcards came from all kinds of different people sharing art and thoughts and feelings with me. A few came from friends but most came from strangers. Many people remained anonymous. I had postcards from children as well as well-known organizations and accomplished artists, writers, and professionals in their field. Several people became pandemic penpals who I hope to meet in real life one day.

These small, personal documents cover some things that happened to us in 2020. The overarching event being the coronavirus pandemic with its many issues such as the loss of loved ones, racism against Asian and Asian-American people, the toilet paper shortage, isolation, anxiety, depression, working from home, and having kids schooled at home. Other major events that are documented in the collection are the Black Lives Matter movement, Portland protests, the wildfires on the U.S. west coast and in Australia, U.S. postal service funding issues and delays, everything surrounding issues with the Trump presidency leading up to the election and post-election results, Brexit, the SpaceX launch, the deaths of John Lewis and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the great planetary conjunction on the winter solstice. Not to mention the hopes and fears of everyday living.

The next portion of the project is to exhibit the collection in its entirety and to publish a selection of these as a book where a portion of the proceeds will support organizations assisting people who are experiencing homelessness, who do not have an address to participate in a project like this one to continue the exchange in generosity and connection.

The exhibition planned was unfortunately canceled due to the global pandemic, but I am committed to sharing the work publicly in the future when it works. Thank you to everyone who participated and those who have inquired about the next phases of the project!

The bulk of this was originally published in Canvas, Vol. 40, No.1 (Winter 2021) by the Art Libraries Society of North America, Southern California Chapter.