Artist Statement

I began using a typewriter 15 years ago to record my thoughts and ideas. The more I typed the more the letters and words on the pages began to take on a new function, slowly transforming into a new language.  This new language was one I made from patterns and grids formed by punctuation marks. I began creating layers of repetitive marks typed onto a page, often creating surfaces so layered with texture that the paper often breaks open and falls away. These tattered fragments have taken on their own identity becoming objects, and no longer just drawings

Bio

Education

1993 - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA - Tufts University, Medford, MA - BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2005 - Untitled Space, Hudson, NY - Drawing Scheme
2001 - Thirteen Gallery, Danbury, CT - Drawing
1997- Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY - Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA - New Work
1994 - 88 Room, Boston, MA - Between Here and There: Drawing With a Typewriter

Group Exhibitions

2007

Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY- Drawing, Thinking,  curated by Marco Breuer

2006

Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, NY - Manhattan Transfer, curated by John Weber -
University Gallery, Lowell, MA- Picturing Words, curated by Joseph Carroll

2004 -

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. - Book as Art XV
Jean Paul Slusser Gallery - University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor, MI - Drawing a Pulse

2001

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT - Paper
The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO - Organic Geometries

2000

Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C. - Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century - Traveling to Vietnam, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Iran

1999

Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA - New Drawing Show - Di Chiara / Stewart, New York, NY - Keep Fit/ Be Happy

1998

The Art Store, New York, NY - Materialism- 88 Room, Boston, MA - Introversion
Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY - Growing Obsession

1997

Hunter College, New York, NY - Text and Touch
The Islip Museum, Islip, New York - More & More

1996   

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Landscape Reclaimed: New Approaches to an Artistic Tradition
Montgomery Glasoe Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN - By Any Means
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Second District Artist Exhibition
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY - Works on Paper

1995   

Drawing Center, New York, NY
Selections Winter 1995
Dana Art Gallery, Wellesley, MA - Works on Paper

1994

Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA - Women’s Caucus for Art: Women

Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA - Boit Exhibition - Residencies / Awards / Grants

2007

Dieu Donne, New York, NY 2008 - Workspace Program

2002

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
Fellowship
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH - Winter residency

2001   

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Winter Residency
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH - Summer Residency

2001   

New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Fellowship in the Arts

1999   

The Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, NY - Grant

1996   

The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Fellowship/ Residency October 1996 – April 1997

1995

Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME - Summer Program
Collections
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 Ken Freed, Boston, MA - Sherri Geldin, Columbus, OH
Ruth Kaufman, New York, NY Werner Kramarsky, New York, NY
Sol Le Witt, Chester, CT Patricia Orden, New York, NY
Ruth & Marvin Sackner, Miami Beach, FL Andrea Woodner, New York, NY

Contact

allysonstrafella@verizon.net
518-828-2090

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