Carlie Trosclair

and all the lives we ever lived

Carlie Trosclair is a sculptor and installation artist who records and reimagines the genealogy of home and its relationship to the natural world. As the daughter of an electrician, Trosclair spent her formative years in historic residential properties at varying stages of construction and renovation. Reflectively her work creates new topographies and narratives that highlight structural and decorative shifts evolving over a building’s lifespan.

Trosclair’s site specific installations are powerful artworks that draw the viewer into the vulnerability and memory of a space. In her recent project with Houston’s Project Row Houses, Trosclair addressed ideas of displacement and destruction from her experience of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

While visiting Central Florida for this solo exhibition, Trosclair will be in residence for three weeks to make a work of art on-site at the historic Dutton House in DeLand. The owners of the home have allowed her access to cast original components of the historic house before it is restored. Trosclair will turn these castings into a work for public display.

In 2023, Trosclair was named the Ellis-Beauregard Fellow for the Visual Arts and the South Arts Louisiana State Fellow for Visual Arts. Trosclair earned an M.F.A from the Sam Fox School of Design; Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, B.F.A from Loyola University New Orleans, and is an alumni of the Community Arts Training Institute in St. Louis. Trosclair has participated in residencies including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), Loghaven Artist Residency (TN), Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), Joan Mitchell Center (LA), McColl Center (NC), and Vermont Studio Center. 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 Times’ Mastermind Award, Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship and the Great Rivers Biennial Award.

In this solo exhibition, Trosclair expands on notions of home beyond the built environment, exploring a symbiosis with the broader living landscape. Latex membranes of vines and tree trunks record traces of regenerative cycles. Remnants of the original environment are absorbed into each latex body, crystallizing the textures and detritus of place. From the palimpsest of paint, disintegration of wood, or echo of tree rings, these surfaces are connected in the ways they mark time. and all the lives we ever lived explores themes of memory, loss, and renewal through a collective witnessing of architectural and environmental histories.

“And all the lives we ever lived
and all the lives to be
are full of trees and changing leaves.”

― Virginia Woolf

EXHIBITION DETAILS

Carlie Trosclair: and all the lives we ever lived

January 18 – April 6, 2025

Museum of Art – DeLand, Downtown Gallery

100 N. Woodland Blvd. DeLand, Florida 32720

Admission: Members Free  |  Future Members $5

Image: Carlie Trosclair, Chrysalis: Reflections on the Interstitial, Latex and salvaged wood, 9 ft 5 in x 25 ft x 17 ft