Allyson Strafella "Worksight"
Von Lintel Gallery
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Allyson Strafella has been making drawings with a typewriter for 17 years, creating marks that have become her own visual language: a drawing language 'written' by type, and a written language drawn as mark and form. With each strike of the key, she pushes the paper to its physical limit. The typewriter is her tool, though not easily recognizable because her process is uniquely her own.
Mostly intimate in scale, each drawing is made by using a single key of punctuation mark. Strafella works the individual marks into densely concentrated compositions that derive from natural and constructed forms. When the marks are transferred from carbon to plain paper, the cerulean blue, deep red, vivid black or forest green forms pour on the paper's surface in such dense concentration they begin to eat their way through the material. When the marks are transferred from carbon to paper, negatives of her drawings are also produced. Together, this drawing duality creates a movement of recurring forms.
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from January 13, 2011 to February 12, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-01-13 from 18:00 to 20:00