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September 20, 2023
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September 20, 2023
Please join us for an artist talk and closing reception with artists Carlie Trosclair and Rosalie Smith on September 20, at 6pm in the NARS Project Space.
Carlie Trosclair will discuss her exhibition relics of passage in conversation with Rosalie Smith.
Approached through a lens of reordering and discovery, Trosclair’s work contemplates the living and transitional components of home. Architectural bodies carry with them the layered histories of previous residents. These become the shells we leave behind; Relics of habitation and home-making.
Using latex as an architectural skin, ghostlike casts reshape the narrative of home as a sturdy secure space into one that is vulnerable and ephemeral. Echoes of the familiar are absorbed into the membrane of each latex cavity, crystallizing textures and detritus of place.
For her solo exhibition, relics of passage, Trosclair highlights thoroughfares that are no longer accessible. Sculptures of an impassible archway, doors that open into one another, a reflectionless mirror, etc. traverse the gallery. Once portals between planes, these hollow forms negate their intended function. A molted memory of transience and connection.
About the artist:
Growing up in New Orleans as the daughter of an electrician, Carlie Trosclair spent her formative years in historic residential properties at varying stages of construction and renovation. Reflectively her work explores the genealogy of home by using latex as an architectural skin to create sculptural installations that highlight the structural and decorative shifts evolving over a building’s lifespan.
Trosclair earned an M.F.A from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, and a B.F.A from Loyola University New Orleans. She is an alumni of the Community Arts Training Institute in St. Louis, and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). Select artist residencies include: the Tides Institute & Museum of Art (ME), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), Joan Mitchell Center (LA), Loghaven Artist Residency (TN), Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency (MI), Vermont Studio Center (VT), and The Luminary Center for the Arts (MO). Trosclair’s work has been featured in Art in America, The New York Times, ArtFile Magazine, and Temporary Art Review, among others. She is the recipient of the Riverfront Time‘s Mastermind Award, Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship and the Great Rivers Biennial Award. In 2023 Trosclair was named the Ellis-Beauregard Fellow for the Visual Arts and the South Arts Louisiana State Fellow for Visual Arts. Upcoming appointments include artist residencies at the McColl Center in North Carolina, the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico, and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY.
About the moderator:
Rosalie Smith is an interdisciplinary artist utilizing found materials, photography, writing, and drawings to construct architectural sculptures. Her work forecasts a future that necessitates mobility, adaptive reuse, and compartmental living. Her sculptures often reflect emotional states including grief, nostalgia, frustration, and amusement.
Smith’s work has been exhibited internationally, though primarily within New Orleans, where she lived until moving to New York City in 2022. Her work has been covered in Art in America, Burnaway, and Here Magazine, among others. Smith has founded several curatorial projects, including Lucky Art Fair, Curious Table, and Gas Station Projects. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at CUNY Hunter.
