Contemporary Art Gallery

The Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery is devoted to the presentation of national and regional exhibitions of contemporary art, lectures and workshops. The gallery is part of the Visual Art + Design Department and as such provides a forum for contemporary art for students, the city of Hammond and residents of the North Shore.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Carlie Trosclair Exhibition Poster

if you lived here, you'd be home by now: Carlie Trosclair, January 26 - February 23

The SLU Contemporary Art Gallery is thrilled to present a solo exhibition by sculptor Carlie Trosclair. if you lived here, you’d be home by now is the largest exhibition of Trosclair’s monumental latex architectural castings exhibited to date.

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.

From structural cracks in a building, the palimpsest of paint, or footprint of rust these surfaces are connected by the ways they mark time. 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.

if you lived here, you’d be home by now explores threads of connection in states of flux, transience, and displacement. 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.

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