Capucine Gros
HUMAN STROKES, 2010-2017
Acrylic on canvas and accompanying journals
71 × 111 inches
Human Strokes started in 2010 and is updated daily by the artist as she marks each death she reads or hears about with one stroke of white paint onto a canvas gridded like a world map. The artist intends the last mark on this work to be that marking her own death.
HUMAN STROKES, 2010-2017
Acrylic on canvas and accompanying journals
71 × 111 inches
Human Strokes, 2010-2017 (detail)
Human Strokes, 2010-2017
Capucine Gros
Implicit Borders: a cartography of free will
Installation View
New York, NY
Capucine Gros
APPROXIMATELY 199, installation variation 1, 2017
Catinca Tabacaru, New York
Capucine Gros
APPROXIMATELY 199, installation variation 1, 2017
The sale of each piece in the installation created data: Which countries are bought? Why does a person choose to own a particular nation? Which countries remained unwanted? As the project travels, how will place and time affect these answers?
Capucine Gros
APPROXIMATELY 199, installation variation 1, 2017
Capucine Gros
Approximately 199, started 2012, ink on hand-printed, hand-made and hand-bound sketchbooks, 7 × 5 × 1” each
Capucine Gros
Approximately 199, started 2012
Ink on hand-printed, hand-made and hand-bound sketchbooks
each 7 × 5 × 1 inch
Started in 2012, Gros makes one book each year, dedicating one page per country which holds an internationally recognized passport, plus one page for the approximately 10 million people who are stateless. The artist intends to continue this project for the remainder of her life.
Capucine Gros
Approximately 199, 2017
performance
Capucine Gros
Approximately 199
March 20, 2017 – October 5, 2017
performance with screen-printed
shirts, 200 days
Approximately 199, March 20, 2017 – October 5, 2017, performance with screen-printed shirts, 200 days
Installation at UNFINISHED Festival
Capucine Gros
The Geography of Love (People I Love or Loved / People I Could Love), 2015-2017
Screen-printed and hand-stitch on canvas (diptych)
8.5 × 11 inches each
Capucine Gros
The Geography of Love (People I Could Love), 2017 (detail)
Capucine Gros (b. 1989 Switzerland/French)
Capucine Gros grew up in France and China. She moved to the United States in 2007 to earn her BFA in Painting and New Media art from the Savannah College of Art and Design. This movement about the world has tainted her perception with a certain geographic compulsion. Her work is a way to explore, process and challenge the semi-absurd lines that humans draw around themselves all over the world: borders, languages, media, class, politics, prejudice. Her practice can be defined by a rare affinity for long-term commitment: year-long performances recording her interactions with others; life-long paintings and annual hand-made books; and a recent 200-day performance wearing one shirt for every country in the world, each screen-printed with that country’s shape, from March 20 to October 4, 2017. Cartography, love, death and free will play strong roles in her repertoire of subject matter.
In 2011, Gros completed a residency at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY and was most recently artist-in-residence at the Webb School of Knoxville. In May 2017, she was invited to premiere a large-scale installation during the Unfinished Festival in Bucharest.
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BORN 1989, SWITZERLAND
LIVES AND WORKS IN BROOKLYN
EDUCATION
- 2012
BFA, Painting and New Media Art, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, GA
MUSEUM & INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS
- 2015
Generations: 40 Hues Between Black and White, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Mode/Code, Georgia Southern University Contemporary Gallery, Statesboro, GA- 2014
Circling the Center, collaborative performance with Nene Humphrey, BRIC Brooklyn Biennale, Brooklyn, NY
- 2013
Circling the Center, collaborative performance with Nene Humphrey, Dixon Place, New York, NY
- 2012
Student International Small Print Show, El Minia University, El Minia
- 2011
Open-Studio, Open-Source, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (solo)
- 2010
The In-Between, collaborative exhibition with Ju-Yeon Kim, SCAD and the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
- 2007
Turning Point, Creative Center of Fine Arts College University, Shanghai
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
- 2017
Implicit Borders: a cartography of free will, Catinca Tabacaru, NY
Capucine Gros, Webb Gallery, Knoxville, TN- 2012
Little Thank You Show, Creative Coast Gallery, Savannah, GA
- 2011
Open-Studio, Open-Source, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Human Strokes, solo performance at SCAD deFine Art, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA
17%, installation at SCAD Fall Open Studio, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA Explorelations, exhibition with Ramona Todoca, Truspace Gallery, Savannah, GA- 2010
Present!, installation at SCAD Fall Open Studio, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2017
Unfinished Festival, Galeria Dalles, Bucharest
- 2016
Between Senses, Gallery House, Brooklyn, NY
Art Inter/National, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA- 2015
The Biology of Love, Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College, NY
cARTography, Ryan James Fine Arts, Seattle, WA- 2013
INFLUX, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris
- 2012
Bring Yourself, Small Black Door Gallery, New York, NY
Art for Life’s Sake, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA
99% COTTON, City Market Space, Savannah, GA
Far From Home, La Galerie Bleue, Savannah GA
SCAD deFine Art, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA- 2011
SCAD Senior BFA Exhibition, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA
Exquisite Corpse, Mr Beast Gallery, Savannah, GA- 2010
B114, Purple Roof Gallery, Shanghai
One for the Row, Desoto Row Gallery, Savannah, GA
Wud Sha, CCDP Space, Savannah, GA
Ensnared, Desoto Row Gallery, Savannah, GA
PUBLIC PROJECTS & WORKS
- 2017
Approximately 199, New York, NY; Paris, Lyon, Ile d’Yeu, Nantes; Bucharest; Venice
- 2013
Sing for Hope, collaborative public project with Michael Scoggins, Staten Island, NY
I, You, We Hope, Howard Street, New York, NY- 2011
I AM SAVANNAH, public project with James Sakalian, Butler Elementary School, Savannah, GA
- 2010
The Resonance, public sculpture with Brian Rogers and Christopher Crowe, Hinesville, GA
AWARDS & GRANTS
- 2012
Target Professional Development Grant, Savannah, GA
- 2010
“The Resonance,” public sculpture competition, City of Hinesville, GA
- 2009
“Who’s Who Among American Universities and Colleges” honoree
- 2007/2012
SCAD full-tuition Intercultural Scholarship, Savannah, GA
RESIDENCIES
- 2017
Artist in Residence, Webb School of Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
- 2011
SCAD New York City Workspace residency, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY