Allyson Strafella
Allyson Strafella has been working with a typewriter, making drawings for 20 years. She has developed a drawing language that is "written" by type, and a written language drawn as
mark and form. Her drawings are made by using a single punctuation mark. Strafella works the individual marks into densely concentrated compositions that derive from natural and constructed forms. In an Art in America review of Strafella's 2011 solo exhibition Worksight at Von Lintel Gallery, Janet Koplos writes that the works "address the beauty of mark-making reduced to its non-narrative essence...It's an older sort of pixilation, encouraging an intimacy that is as rewarding as the more distant views, which suggest simple graceful compositions."
Allyson Strafella lives and works in Hudson, New York. Her
work has been exhibited internationally, and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT, among other private and public collections. Strafella was a Workspace Program artist-in-residence at Dieu Donné in 2007 and has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, …
Allyson Strafella has been working with a typewriter, making drawings for 20 years. She has developed a drawing language that is "written" by type, and a written language drawn as
mark and form. Her drawings are made by using a single punctuation mark. Strafella works the individual marks into densely concentrated compositions that derive from natural and constructed forms. In an Art in America review of Strafella's 2011 solo exhibition Worksight at Von Lintel Gallery, Janet Koplos writes that the works "address the beauty of mark-making reduced to its non-narrative essence...It's an older sort of pixilation, encouraging an intimacy that is as rewarding as the more distant views, which suggest simple graceful compositions."
Allyson Strafella lives and works in Hudson, New York. Her
work has been exhibited internationally, and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT, among other private and public collections. Strafella was a Workspace Program artist-in-residence at Dieu Donné in 2007 and has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; and MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH. She is a Guggenheim fellow and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation recipient. Allyson Strafella is represented by Von Lintel Gallery, New York and Gallery Joe, Philadelphia.
Courtesy of Dieu Donné
BFA, Tufts University, Medford, MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Yale Art Museum, New Haven, CT
Werner Kramarsky, New York, NY
Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
