The exhibit as opened, the installation is complete! here is an image of "Drawn Out", 10' X 13' X 7', Ribbon, Lead, Carabiners and Steel, 2013. Three lead weights create a tensile force on the horizontally woven ribbons; this force helps to shape the main volume of the piece. The counterweights are connected to the main form by satin ribbons strung through a series of carabiners, mounted on the ceiling and the wall, that redirect the tensile force created by the lead weights.
Jeff Bergman, Associate Director at Pace Prints curated the show "Flat/Not Flat" for which I created this work. The work of Jennifer Davies, Karen Dow, and Martha Lewis is also on exhibit here and it is all well worth seeing. Artspace has some funky hours over the holidays - Artspace is open Wednesdays & Thursday from 12-6pm, Fridays & Saturdays from 12-8pm. The gallery is free and open to the public. Artspace will be closed for Thanksgiving November 27-30th and between December 18th and January 7th."
Below: "Ribbon 13", 22" X 22", Graphite on Paper 2013
Curator Jeff Bergman wrote this on his blog "Atlas".
"Alisa Dworsky built something quite remarkable with Drawn Out. It conforms to the space without overtaking it, but makes a huge impact. For me, the piece becomes a one quarter slice of the axis of the planet. The architecture of our world. Dworsky and I were able to discuss materials, spaces and methods, but nothing could have prepared me for the physical reality of the piece. Alisa took ribbon, hardware and weights and made a space born of physics and air. Her drawings quite literally flatten the piece using ribbon and graphite. The erasures and the grissale line fills me with the joy that usually only Celmins and Ruscha can."