Christa Capua | Southern Futurism

Christa Capua loves the forgotten corners, the secret gardens, the ephemera, the attics.  The drawers in an old desk, the shoebox full of letters.  Her current work is digital collage printed on paper. She loves the malleability of the digital medium because it allows her to create worlds that appear to be both microscopic and vast – the dust particles being much the same as the galaxies, each containing multitudes.

Religious artifacts of various kinds inspire her work, the luscious layering of graffiti and posters on an old wall, and artists such as Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Renee Stout, and Tadanori Yokoo. Christa has been a psychotherapist for almost 20 years. Her work as a therapist and as an artist is intertwined, as both explore the subconscious, the meaning and symbolism we attribute to the events in our lives, and the processes of suffering/death and redemption/rebirth that are common experiences for us all.

Opening Reception: January 16, 5-7 pm

Final Friday: January 30 and February 27, 6-9 pm

Christa Capua is an Asheville, North Carolina-based artist creating densely layered digital collages that explore a sense of place, memory, and the sacred in parallel. Christa’s visual language is one of “Southern Futurism,” a style that examines the tensions that exist between decay and progress, the urban and the rural, of being caught between history and technology. Christa has been in numerous group shows and, in 2024, was selected by the Bob Moog Foundation via a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council to design and install an original artwork commemorating the 5th anniversary of the Bob Moog Foundation.  She currently works from her studio space in the River Arts District in Asheville.

BA | 1994 | Bennington College, Bennington, VT Major: Painting & Drawing Minor: Psychology

MS cum laude | 2005 | Florida International University Major: Counseling Psychology

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