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SUCHNESS

15 Apr 2016—24 June 2016

Recent tapestry weavings made by Helen Mirra in conversation with extant drawings by Allyson Strafella.

HELEN MIRRA Helen Mirra was born in Rochester, New York in 1970 and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A fifteen year survey (1996-2010) of her work was presented at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal in 2014. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Hourly Directional’ at Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study and at MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge MA) with Ernst Karel; ‘Gehend (Field Recordings 1-3)’ at three venues: Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and Bonner Kunstverein. Other solo exhibitions include The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2001) and the Berkeley Art Museum. This year Mirra took part at the Havana Biennial with a month-long walking project. Her work was included in the 50th Venice Biennial (2003) and the 30th Sao Paulo Biennial (2012). Recent publications include ‘Gehend’ (Argobooks, 2013); ‘Edge Habitat Materials’ (Whitewalls, 2014); the CD ‘Maps of Parallels 41 N and 49 N’ with Ernst Karel (Shhpuma, 2014); ‘Cloud,the, 3’ (Christoph Keller Editions, JRP Ringier, 2007). Mirra has been awarded various fellowships and residencies, including the DAAD in Berlin, OCA in Oslo, and IASPIS in Stockholm.

ALLYSON STRAFELLA Allyson Strafella was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1969 and lives in Hudson, NY. Strafella has been working on a custom-built typewriter, making drawings for over 20 years. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Fogg Art Museum, Havard University, Cambridge, MA; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, among other private and public collections. Her work was recently on view at the Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2014); the Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA (2014); the Hafnarfjörður Center of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland (2013) and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2012). Strafella has been awarded various residencies and fellowships, including at Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; and MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH. Furthermore she is a Guggenheim fellow and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation recipient. 

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