a semblance of  b r e a t h …

     a liminal space,
          of longing between~
               a living archive.
                    vignettes of time.

Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA is proud to present a semblance of  b r e a t h … a solo exhibition by Carlie Trosclair. 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. Echoes of the familiar are absorbed into the membrane of each latex body, crystallizing textures and detritus of place. Combining structure and fluidity with cycles of expansion and contraction, the narrative of home shape shifts from a secure space into one that is permeable and ephemeral: both structurally and in our memory.

Carlie Trosclair’s sculptural installations create new topographies and narratives that highlight structural and decorative shifts evolving over a building’s lifespan. Growing up in New Orleans as the daughter of an electrician, Trosclair spent her formative years in historic residential properties at varying stages of construction and deconstruction. She found that even when abandoned, the presence of the body still lingered. Reflexively her work reimagines the genealogy of home using latex as an architectural skin. Thin ghostlike imprints mark an in-between space that is transient and ever changing: both structurally and in our memory. Trosclair’s select artist residencies include: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), Joan Mitchell Center (LA). Loghaven Residency (TN), Tides Institute & Museum of Art (ME), chashama (NY), Vermont Studio Center (VT), and The Luminary Center for the Arts (MO). 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 Time‘s Mastermind Award, the Creative Stimulus Award, Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship and the Great Rivers Biennial Award. Trosclair 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 Community Arts Training Institute in St. Louis.