The exhibit runs June 26- July 26th at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro Vermont.On exhibit a large art installation “Phase Change 1” and related drawings, the “dying Flowers” series and the “Closed Loop Series”.
Phase Change brings together works on paper and a large-scale installation that explore impermanence through the passage of time. Using ink, watercolor, graphite, fabric, glass, and water, Alisa Dworsky examines how evaporation reshapes matter while revealing unexpected complexity. These works reflect on the beauty that endures with age, the effects of diminishing water on living structures, the desire to preserve something of the garden, and the failure to hold a moment of bloom.
The watercolor and ink works on paper in the Dying Flowers series trace the gradual evolution of bouquets as their water source disappears. As stems bend, petals curl, and organic structures desiccate, the flowers undergo a striking visual shift. Colors deepen or fade, contours become more animated, and previously unnoticed forms emerge. While documenting decline, these works also attend to the vitality and beauty that persist through this change.
The Closed Loop drawings, made with watercolor pencil and graphite, extend Dworsky's ongoing exploration of frottage as both process and image. Though rooted in abstraction, their palette and imagery arise directly from observations made in the Dying Flowers series. Together, the two bodies of work demonstrate how representational and abstract visual languages can emerge from a shared source, each offering a distinct way of perceiving the rhythms and patterns embedded in natural phenomena.
The exhibition includes a ten-foot-high suspended fabric installation, titled Phase Change 1, constructed from orange and yellow ripstop nylon. Counterbalanced by a vessel of water, the expansive conical structure is held upright at the outset of the exhibition. As the water gradually evaporates, the equilibrium of weight shifts and the structure slowly collapses. The installation renders the passage of time tangible, making visible the physical consequences of water loss while echoing the processes depicted in the drawings. Like the flowers, the work exists within a cycle of growth, transformation, and dissolution.