Carley Rickles is an Atlanta-based artist, and landscape architect. Rickles’ projects interrogate themes related to everyday life and the built environment through field research, documentation, scholarship, exhibition, and social practice.
Rickles holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia and a Master of Science in Urban Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology. topics from her education inform her art and research practice. rickles recent projects include The Residual Spaces Project, Alternative Public Space, Embracing the Ugly Urbanism, 2020 Field, Missing, and soft surveillance (atl airport). She has lectured on her projects internationally with Architecture Media Politics Society (AMPS) and with Experimental Ethnography at Emory. Carley was a recipient of the 2020 Idea Capital Travel Grant for her proposal, Landscape of Collective Trauma. Rickles was a 2020-2022 Creatives Project Artist in Residence. in 2022, Rickles was featured in Burnaway for her project, Missing. Most recently, rickles was invited to be a part of the city as site exhibition (2022-2023) curated by jess bernhart at hartsfield-jackson atlanta international airport.
Beyond her independent practice, Rickles co-runs Martin Rickles Studio (MRS) alongside Jennifer Martin. MRS is an interdisciplinary art and design studio operating out of Atlanta. Their design work has been featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine and in architectural digest’s clever. most recently they received a professional award in communications from the american society of landscape architects for their work on the historic bruce street school. they have worked with several atlanta-based institutions including the arabia mountain heritage area alliance, fulton county arts, whitespace, hambidge arts and sciences, the castellucci hospitality group, and dekalb county.
interdisciplinary research projects:
1. embracing the ugly urbanism | walking series, social practice, participatory art, public engagement, public pedagogy
2. what is leftover:the residual space | urban design, art series
3. landscapes of collective trauma | urban design, built environment memory, art series, autoethographic study in Berlin, germany
4. missing | urban design, art series, autoethographic study, landscape memory, and social practice democratically exploring places past their physical existence.
5. circle of response | art series, land investigation, evolving installation, social practice, connecting community members to land
