Suchness

About

Helen Mirra was born in Rochester, New York in 1970 and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since 2007 her practice has been centered in walking. A fifteen year survey (1996-2010) of her work was presented at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal in 2014. She participated in the 11th Havana Biennial, the 30th São Paulo Art Biennial and the 50th Venice Biennial. Mirra has had solo exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum, Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Mirra has been artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She taught for some years, including as Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago and as Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.

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 drawings are made by using a single punctuation mark. Strafella has exhibited her work at the Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2014); the Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA (2014); the Hafnarfjörður Center of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland (2013) and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2012). She has been awarded various residencies and fellowships, including at Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME and is a Guggenheim fellow and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation recipient.