Allyson Strafella

Using a typewriter as a drawing tool, Allyson Strafella builds up repetitive punctuation marks to create forms. hillsdale is a collection of drawings that reflect Strafella’s view of her surrounding landscape in Columbia County, NY. The typed images hover between the abstracted familiar, and the intimately far-away. Strafella has, “...developed marks that are my visual language: a drawing language ‘written’ by type, and a written language drawn as mark and form.” Through the practice of drawing, she aims to clarify the complexities of the world she lives in.