Southeastern to exhibit artwork by sculptor
Monday, January 30, 2023
by: Tonya Lowentritt 
HAMMOND - Southeastern’s Contemporary Art Gallery will present “if you lived here, you’d be home by now,” an exhibit featuring a selection
of art works made by sculptor Carlie Trosclair. The free exhibition is open through
Feb. 23 and is the largest exhibition of Trosclair’s latex architectural castings
to date.
The exhibit explores threads of connection in states of flux, transience, and
displacement, explained Gallery Director Cristina Molina. Spanning architectural landscapes
from Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Missouri, and Louisiana, echoes of the familiar
are absorbed into the membrane of each latex body, crystallizing textures and detritus
of place.
“Approached through a lens of reordering and discovery, Carlie’s work contemplates
the living and transitional components of home,” Molina said. “Architectural bodies
carry with them the layered histories of previous residents. These become the shells
we leave behind – relics of habitation and home-making.”
“From structural cracks in a building, the palimpsest of paint, or footprint
of rust, these surfaces are connected by the ways they mark time,” Molina explained.
“Paper-thin casts reshape the narrative of home as a sturdy secure space into one
that is vulnerable and ephemeral. These ghostlike imprints mark an in-between space
that is transient and ever changing, both structurally and in our memory.
Trosclair’s work has been featured in “Art in America,” “The New York Times,”
“Burnaway,” “ArtFile Magazine,” and “Temporary Art Review,” among others. She is the
recipient of the Riverfront Times’s Mastermind Award, the Creative Stimulus Award,
Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship and the Great Rivers Biennial Award.
Trosclair earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Sam Fox School of Design
and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from
Loyola University in New Orleans, and is an alumna of the Community Arts Training
Institute in St Louis.
Located at 411 Ned McGehee Dr., gallery hours are Monday through Thursday from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
For more information about the exhibition, contact Molina at cmolina@southeastern.edu or at 985-549-5080.
