Allyson Strafella - Paper Variable 2012
Edition 21 of 25
Allyson Strafella
Spell, 2012
Pigmented cotton and pigmented abaca
10 1/2 x 8 1⁄2 inches
Dieu Donné is pleased to announce a new edition by Allyson Strafella of 25 variable artworks in handmade paper as part of the 2012 Paper Variables program. Allyson Strafella has been working with a typewriter, making drawings for 20 years. 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. Strafella works the individual marks into densely concentrated compositions that derive from natural and constructed forms.
In this variable edition created at the Dieu Donné studios, forms from Strafella's typed drawings are recreated in pigmented cotton and adhered to abaca base sheets during the 'wet process', allowing the form to become both object and mark on the page. The resultant works juxtapose the strength of the mark against the ethereal qualities of the pigmented base sheet. Strafella has also taken the opportunity to expand her color spectrum to five vibrant combinations, having previously relied on available colors determined by transfer and carbon papers.
About the Artist
Allyson Strafella lives and works in Hudson, New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is 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 Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT, among other private and public collections. Strafella was a Workspace Program artist-in-resident at Dieu Donné in 2007. She is a Guggenheim fellow and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation recipient.
For more information, please visit her website:
https://allysonstrafella.info/
About Paper Variables
Celebrate the possibilities! The Paper Variables series are unique collectable works in a limited edition. Each piece is handmade in our studios, and artists love the chance to experiment with different colors and additions to make each piece distinctive. For collectors, it’s an opportunity to acquire works by well known artists at an attractive price. Signed and numbered by the artist.