biography

Allyson Strafella was born in Brooklyn (NY) in 1969. She lives and works in Hudson, New York.

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.

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Allyson Strafella was born in Brooklyn (NY) in 1969. She lives and works in Hudson, New York.

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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images

field, 2021

Pigmented abaca paper

62 × 51 cm

blue form, 2021

Typed marks on abaca paper

45,2 × 35,4 cm

seat, 2021

Typed marks on pigmented abaca

63,5 × 62 cm

mirra, 2021

Pigmented abaca paper

60 × 62,3 cm

held, 2021

Typed marks on carbon

56,5 × 60 cm

apart, 2020

Typed marks on abaca paper

89,6 × 62,5 cm

mirror, 2020

Typed marks on pigmented abaca paper

89,4 × 61,6 cm

stand, 2020

Typed marks on abaca paper

85 × 60 cm

memory, 2020

Typed marks on abaca paper

80 × 60 cm

band, 2017

Typed marks on pigmented abaca paper

30,5 × 24 cm

passage I, 2016

Typed marks on pigmented abaca paper

41,2 × 28,2 cm

yellow cascade, 2016

Typed lines on transfer paper

26 × 16,4 cm

gatefold, 2015

Custom marks on pigmented abaca paper

88 × 54,5 cm

public exhibitions

CACY Centre d’art contemporain Yverdon-les-Bains

Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

Rock me Baby

10.10.2020 – 23.5.2021

Photo: Claude Cortinovis

The Print Center

Philadelphia, PA

New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print

17.4.2019

Photo: Jaime Alvarez

Sleeper Gallery

Edinburgh

Scotland

wander

25.5 – 22.6.2018

Sleeper Gallery

Edinburgh

Scotland

wander

25.5 – 22.6.2018

press

Helen Mirra and Allyson Strafella: Suchness

Cherry Smyth

Art Monthly

June 2016

An Interview with Allyson Strafella

Suzanne Snider

Believer Magazine

February 1, 2013

Allyson Strafella in conversation with Rachel Nackman

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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