January 16, 2026 5:00pm -
February 28, 2026 8:00pm
Free
Asheville, NC-based artist Christa Capua brings her background in mixed-media collage to her more recent work in digital collage. Capua utilizes the malleability of the digital medium to manipulate images and create worlds that appear to be both microscopic and vast—simultaneously futuristic and decayed.
Describing her visual language as “Southern Futurism,” Christa Capua explores place and gender caught between history and technology through a series of scrolls. Each scroll explores themes of meaning, memory, and the sacred in parallel. By loving the forgotten corners, the secret gardens, the ephemera, and the drawers in an old desk, the shoebox full of obsolete instructions and old letters, Capua explores the mythologies, narratives, and symbolism we use to make sense of being alive.
Opening Reception: January 16, 5-7 pm
Final Friday: January 30 and February 27, 6-9 pm
Christ Capua’s current work is digital collage printed on canvas. The subject matter explores themes of memory, time, sacred geometry, and the collective unconscious. Her work is inspired by religious artifacts of various kinds, and artists such as Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Renee Stout, and Swoon. She has been a psychotherapist for 15 years. Her work as a therapist and as an artist is intertwined in that both explore the subconscious, the meaning and symbolism we attribute to the events in our lives, and the process of suffering/death and redemption/rebirth that are common experiences for us all.
