Allyson Strafella

Works

field2021

Pigmented abaca paper

62 × 51 cm

blue form2021

Typed marks on abaca paper

45,2 × 35,4 cm

seat2021

Typed marks on pigmented abaca

63,5 × 62 cm

Move, 2019 and Place, 2020, details, abaca paper

mirra2021

Pigmented abaca paper

60 × 62,3 cm

held2021

Typed marks on carbon

56,5 × 60 cm

apart2020

Typed marks on abaca paper

89,6 × 62,5 cm

Installation view, Viveka, 2021, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milano

mirror2020

Typed marks on pigmented abaca paper

89,4 × 61,6 cm

stand2020

Typed marks on abaca paper

85 × 60 cm

memory2020

Typed marks on abaca paper

80 × 60 cm

Installation view, Viveka, 2021, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milano

band2017

Typed marks on pigmented abaca paper

30,5 × 24 cm

passage I2016

Typed marks on pigmented abaca paper

41,2 × 28,2 cm

yellow cascade2016

Typed lines on transfer paper

26 × 16,4 cm

gatefold2015

Custom marks on pigmented abaca paper

88 × 54,5 cm

Allyson Strafella studio view

New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print, 2019, The Print Center, Philadelphia

Fieno Fieno Fieno, 2016, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milano

Biography

Allyson Strafella was born in Brooklyn (NY) in 1969. She lives and works in Hudson, New York.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2016.

Allyson Strafella has been working with a typewriter, making drawings since the early nineties. With patience, she finds the edge of form and formlessness, made and un-made. 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. Her typing is like the “rhythm of the passing of time”, and creates a sort of “prayer flags” fraying into the weather. By marking sheets of paper, individual marks into densely concentrated compositions, abstract forms appear in relation to landscapes, fields and the changing of seasons.

Her work has been exhibited internationally; recent exhibitions include Rock me baby, CAC Centre Art Contemporain Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland (2020); New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2019); Allyson Strafella. wander, Sleeper, Edinburgh, Scotland (2018); Spatial Flux: Contemporary Drawings from the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (2018).

Strafella is represented 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 the Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT, among other private and public collections.

She was a Workspace Program artist-in-residence at Dieu Donné in 2007 and has held residencies at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (2002); Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2001); Skowhegan School of Art, ME (1995).

Strafella is a Guggenheim fellow and a Pollock‑Krasner Foundation recipient.

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Gallery Exhibitions

Public exhibitions

Rock me Baby
10 October 2020 – 23 May 2021
CACY Centre d’art contemporain Yverdon-les-Bains, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print
17 April 2019
The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
wander
25 May – 22 June 2018
Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
wander
25 May – 22 June 2018
Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Press

Helen Mirra and Allyson Strafella: Suchness
Art Monthly
June 2016
An Interview with Allyson Strafella
Believer Magazine
February 1, 2013
Allyson Strafella in conversation with Rachel Nackman
Notations
May 2012

Publications

The Art of Typewriting
Marvin Sackner, Ruth Sackner, Steven Heller
Thames and Hudson
London
2015
The Typewriter Revolution – A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century
Richard Polt
Countryman Press
New York
2015
Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology
Barrie Tullett
Laurence King
London
2014
Courier
Corinna Ripps Schaming
University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, NY
2010
560 Broadway – A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006
Edited by Amy Eshoo
Yale University Press
New Haven, CT
2008

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