Capucine Gros
The Birth of Painting, ongoing started 2015

Started 2015

With The Birth of Painting series, Gros makes paintings from materials she finds in her immediate surrounding. The first is the smallest, and each subsequent painting must be bigger each time.

LOCATIONS

2020 Shanghai: stretcher bars built from collected bamboo and canvas woven from picked grass and bamboo leaves, 7 × 7 inches

2018 Weir Farm: stretcher bars built from wood collected in the forest and canvas woven from twigs and grass picked along the road to Branchville, 6× 6 inches

2018 Jalovik: stretcher bars built from collected wood and canvas woven from picked grass and bark, 5 × 5 inches

2015-2018 New York City: stretcher bars built from wood collected in Harlem and canvas woven from bark and grass picked in Harlem and Dumbo, 4 × 4 inches

The Birth of Painting (Shanghai), 2020, grass and bamboo from Shanghai, 7 × 7 in | 18 × 18 cm

The Birth of Painting (New York City), 2015-2018, wood, bark and grass from Harlem and Dumbo, 4 × 4 in | 10 × 10 cm

The Birth of Painting (Jalovik), 2018, wood, bark and grass from Jalovik, 5 × 5 in | 12.5 × 12.5 cm

The Birth of Painting (Weir Farm), 2018, wood, twigs and grass from Weir Farm, 6 × 6 in | 12.25 × 12.25 cm