Through the practice of drawing, Allyson Strafella aims to clarify the complexities of the world she lives in. Strafella states “ …I developed marks that are my visual language: a drawing language ‘written’ by type, and a written language drawn as mark and form. the place of a place brings together works that reflect Strafella’s view of her surrounding landscape in Columbia County, New York. Using a typewriter as a drawing tool, Strafella builds up repetitive punctuation marks to create forms. Working with handmade pigmented paper provides a greater resource of color and scale; carbon and transfer paper are the primary medium used to imbed those marks into paper. Strafella’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since1992. Her work is in private and public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; The Hammer Museum, CA; The Morgan Library & Museum, NY; Yale Art Museum, CT; The Fogg Art Museum, MA; The Walker Arts Center, MN and others institutions. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1999, 2025), The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2002), Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (2017), Sustainable Arts Foundation (2017), Artists Resource Trust (2017), New York Foundation for the Arts (2001, 2011), The Martha Boschen Porter Fund
(2015).
