Carlie Trosclair
Recipient Information
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
Medium
Visual Arts
Year of Award
2027
Grant or Fellowship
Southern Artist Spotlight Grant
Grant Amount
$0
Carlie Trosclair (b. New Orleans, LA) earned an M.F.A from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, a B.F.A from Loyola University New Orleans, and is an alumni of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). Select artist residencies include: La Napoule Art Foundation (FR), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), Loghaven Artist Residency (TN), Joan Mitchell Center (LA), McColl Center (NC), Sculpture Space (NY), Tides Institute & Museum of Art (ME), and the Santa Fe Art Institute Changing Climate Residency (NM). Trosclair’s work has been featured in Art in America, The New York Times, BURNAWAY, and Sculpture Magazine, among others. She has exhibited at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Ogden Museum, Bradbury Art Museum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art. Trosclair has mounted solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, DeLand Museum of Art, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Tiger Strikes Asteroid; Los Angeles, NARS Foundation; Brooklyn, NY and Project Row Houses; Houston,TX. Recently, Trosclair was awarded the 2024 South Arts Louisiana State Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Art Research Grant, and the Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship for the Visual Arts. She is currently a 2025-2026 Visual Artist Fellow at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.
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allowed our edges to merge
"In allowed our edges to merge, sculptures and installations highlight different ecosystems found in the natural world and their relationship to the built environment. Latex casts of cypress knees merge with those of architectural fragments, emerging from a brick wall. Cypress trees thrive in wet environments thanks to their deep root systems, with “knees” that exchange oxygen to stabilize in waterlogged soils. Trosclair casts cypress knees specific to residential suburban communities, noting how the gnarled roots return to sites despite repeated extermination because they blindly remember a time when the area was subaquatic. In casting the roots and meditating on this pattern, Trosclair ruminates on the equilibrium of breath, how inhale leads to exhale, collapse leads to expansion, and on and on."
the shape of memory
Installation view Photo credit David Clough
May 24, 2025 – September 7, 2025
Center for Maine Contemporary Art Rockland, Maine
within|between
Project Row Houses
Southern Survey Biennial: Round 54
October 9, 2022 - February 12, 2023 Houston, TX