I share my story through my knitwear collection. Through her
innovative art, Carlie Trosclair also tells a narrative. She uses fabric
and site sensitive installations to evolve the structural and design
aspects of rooms. Creating a time shift, she shows what the sites will
look like over the building's lifespan.
Trosclair earned an MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, a BFA from Loyola University New Orleans, and has completed residencies at many different studios throughout the country. In 2012, she received the Riverfront Time's Mastermind Award, and in 2014, she was the recipient of the Great Rivers Biennial. She has been featured at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis and the Antenna Gallery in New Orleans.
While Trosclair does work with materials other than fabric, I find her fiber art installations to be truly eye-catching. For her 2014 exhibition Traverse, which was featured at Hartnett Gallery in Rochester, New York, Trosclair stretched blush tone fabric across plain white walls, creating the illusion of cracks within the building. In 2010, Trosclair also used blush tone fabrics to age a massive space at the Craft Alliance Grand Center in St. Louis. She layered strings of choppy fabric over a translucent base, creating the effect of cobwebs covering a decaying, unused building. Her unique designs reorder rooms to allow viewers to rediscover a space under new terms.
Another installation by Trosclair, Exfoliation, was featured at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. For the exhibition, Trosclair created a three walled room with a cut-out center running along the piece. The cut-out seemed as though someone peeled a small piece of the wall back and then proceeded to walk around the room, taking more wall with them as they went. Similar to Traverse, Trosclair uses the appearance of an old, decaying room to show a time change. The three walls are white and bare. Some might even call them pure-looking in appearance. However, the disruption in the exhibit is the cut-out piece that exposes what was really inside the walls the entire time. Trosclair perfectly displays the decay of beauty, while showing that time doesn't necessarily take away beauty, but transform it. The artistically painted wood exposed by the cut-out shows just that.
Trosclair's installation art may be misconstrued as minimalistic, but the overwhelming transformation she creates is anything but simple. I admire Trosclair's usage of fabric to tell a story, and love her large-scale designs.
Trosclair earned an MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, a BFA from Loyola University New Orleans, and has completed residencies at many different studios throughout the country. In 2012, she received the Riverfront Time's Mastermind Award, and in 2014, she was the recipient of the Great Rivers Biennial. She has been featured at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis and the Antenna Gallery in New Orleans.
While Trosclair does work with materials other than fabric, I find her fiber art installations to be truly eye-catching. For her 2014 exhibition Traverse, which was featured at Hartnett Gallery in Rochester, New York, Trosclair stretched blush tone fabric across plain white walls, creating the illusion of cracks within the building. In 2010, Trosclair also used blush tone fabrics to age a massive space at the Craft Alliance Grand Center in St. Louis. She layered strings of choppy fabric over a translucent base, creating the effect of cobwebs covering a decaying, unused building. Her unique designs reorder rooms to allow viewers to rediscover a space under new terms.
Another installation by Trosclair, Exfoliation, was featured at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. For the exhibition, Trosclair created a three walled room with a cut-out center running along the piece. The cut-out seemed as though someone peeled a small piece of the wall back and then proceeded to walk around the room, taking more wall with them as they went. Similar to Traverse, Trosclair uses the appearance of an old, decaying room to show a time change. The three walls are white and bare. Some might even call them pure-looking in appearance. However, the disruption in the exhibit is the cut-out piece that exposes what was really inside the walls the entire time. Trosclair perfectly displays the decay of beauty, while showing that time doesn't necessarily take away beauty, but transform it. The artistically painted wood exposed by the cut-out shows just that.
Trosclair's installation art may be misconstrued as minimalistic, but the overwhelming transformation she creates is anything but simple. I admire Trosclair's usage of fabric to tell a story, and love her large-scale designs.
