Exhibition: Drifter
Carlie Trosclair
Exhibition Dates: March 20-29, 2026
Opening night: Friday, March 20, 5-8 PM
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Carlie Trosclair is inspired by historic floating houses, fluke prints, and ever changing dunescapes, Trosclair explores longing and transience in her upcoming solo show, drifter. Historically she creates ghostlike latex casts of architectural structures, exploring the temporality of home and its relationship to the surrounding living landscape. Focused on creating site responsive works informed by Cape Cod, she immediately gravitated to the lore of the Long Point Floaters, historic dune shacks, and the holdfasts of a variety of marine life.Themes of ephemerality, transience, and adaptability began to surface. By splicing and fusing a variety of moldmaking processes, drifter, lives on the threshold where water meets land. Hollow household ephemera morph into nautical rope, the imprint of a dune shack hovers between presence and absence, and shell debris shapeshifts into home relics.
About the Artist
Carlie Trosclair is a sculptor and installation artist from New Orleans, LA, who uses latex to record and reimagine the genealogy of home and its relationship to the natural world. Her work contemplates the living and transitional components of home–both structurally and in our memory. Trosclair earned an MFA from the Washington University in St. Louis, a BFA from Loyola University New Orleans and is an alum of the Community Arts Training Institute in St. Louis. Select artist residencies include: La Napoule Art Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Sculpture Space, Loghaven Artist Residency, McColl Center, Joan Mitchell Center, and the Santa Fe Art Institute Changing Climate Residency. Trosclair’s work has been featured in Art in America, the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, BURNAWAY, and Artscope, among others. Trosclair has mounted solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (St. Louis, MO), DeLand Museum of Art (Deland, FL), Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Los Angeles, CA), NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), and Project Row Houses (Houston, TX). Trosclair was selected as the 2023 South Arts Louisiana State Fellow for Visual Arts and awarded the 2024 Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship for the Visual Arts.
