Allyson Strafella Paints with a Typewriter at Philip Douglas Fine Art

July 18–August 30 | Opening reception Saturday, July 18, 1–5pm | Hudson, NY | Free

Philip Douglas Fine Art opens "the place of a place," a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Allyson Strafella, on July 18 with a public reception from 1 to 5pm. The show runs through August 30.

Strafella has been drawing with a typewriter since 1992, using it as a mark-making instrument, building up repetitive punctuation marks to construct landscape forms. The process is slow and accumulative: carbon and transfer paper are the primary medium used to imbed those marks into handmade pigmented paper, which provides both color and scale that standard paper can't. The result sits somewhere between drawing, printmaking, and writing. "I developed marks that are my visual language: a drawing language 'written' by type, and a written language drawn as mark and form," the artist says.

Strafella's work is held in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, and many other notable museums. s.

A printed color brochure of works in the show, plus a collaborative poem by artists Nancy Shaver and George Liu, will be available at the gallery.

Philip Douglas Fine Art, 545 Warren St., 2nd floor, Hudson, NY. Gallery hours Friday–Sunday 11am–5pm, and by appointment. More at philipdouglasfineart.com.