Artful Word: Drawing Strength - Alisa Dworsky

Description

A video by community producer James Gero.

With ropes and bamboo, artist and architectural designer Alisa Dworsky transforms the east and west galleries into complex physical environments. In the installation Surface Tension, black hand-crocheted rope is used to build a landscape suggestive of topographical maps and computer-generated virtual worlds. Dramatic peaks, formed by an upward pull in the rope, are balanced by a series of suspended counterweights. Points of View, a complex network of bamboo tetrahedrons, fills the west gallery. Blue reflective tape on the structure suggests a waterline horizon, which creates a shimmering, level plane when illuminated with provided headlamps. With the play of rigid and organic lines, as well as the projection of shadows on the gallery walls, Dworsky reinterprets two-dimensional drawing into three-dimensional form.For more info, please click here.

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Tags

• Alisa Dworsky, BCA, Burlington City Arts, gero, james

Airtimes

1 Monday January 31, 2011 at 6:30 PM
2 Monday February 7, 2011 at 6:10 AM
3 Monday February 7, 2011 at 12:10 PM
4 Saturday February 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM
5 Sunday February 13, 2011 at 5:40 AM
6 Sunday February 13, 2011 at 11:40 AM
7 Saturday March 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM
8 Saturday March 19, 2011 at 6:30 PM

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