Coulter Fussell: Gold Can Stay
On Display in The Ellis Gallery at ARTS Southeast
March 6th - April 12th, 2025
March 7th, 5 - 9 PM : First Friday Opening Reception
March 8th, 2 PM : Artist Talk with Coulter Fussell
April 4th, 5 - 9 PM: First Friday Closing Reception
Coulter Fussell’s latest exhibition, Gold Can Stay, presents new upholsteries that capture the poetry, mystery, humor, and danger of contemporary youth in rural landscapes. Using her teenage sons and their friends as muses and collaborators, Fussell transforms everyday moments—late-night parking lot gatherings, afterschool sunlit drives, and midnight roman candle wars—into soft relief sculptures.
By printing Snapchat stills onto translucent chiffons and layering them over vibrant fabrics, she creates immersive textile works that blend nostalgia with the immediacy of digital storytelling. Gold Can Stay marks the first expansion of her crowd-sourced textile practice into the realm of digital photography.
This exhibition follows Pillow Talk at The Atlanta Contemporary (2024) and leads into Hot Water at The Bo Bartlett Center later in 2025. In 2026, Fussell’s work will be celebrated in The Proving Ground at The Mississippi Museum of Art—the first museum survey of her work—supported by a $100K grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation.
Experience this bold new body of work at ARTS Southeast before it all unfolds.
