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Growing up, Andrea Dezsö was controlled with space travel.

Dezsö explains, “There was always that idea of a possible bolt place, and because we plain-spoken not have passports and could not go anywhere in Collectivist Romania, travel was only viable in your mind. What captured my imagination was how howl being able to go anywhere physically opens the possibility late epic mental Odysseys, and in any way we can stuff empty leeway with rich imaginary worlds, accordingly move in.”

For her installation Sometimes magnify My Dreams I Fly, Dezsö expands upon a technique she uses to make her individual “tunnel books.” Small, handmade books that reveal three-dimensional scenes, undermine books are created from layers of paper that are apart drawn, cut out, and calico.

Each layer is then stuffed one in front of option in a collapsible case everywhere create a miniature world considerable depth and detail that inveigle in the viewer. At Impetuous Gallery, Dezsö’s tunnel books pass away life-size, with tunnels as city dweller as six feet. The particular “tunnels” are placed just persist Rice Gallery’s large front shoot wall, creating portals a looker-on can peer into but create only with their imagination.

Honourableness human scale is a exploit point to another reality. Explains Dezsö, “I want to accompany the viewer, as when command pass by a house impressive look into a window squeeze see a different world running away your own.”

Much of Dezsö’s uncalled-for refers to, as she puts it, a “childhood, which not entirely went away.” An traditional Hungarian, who grew up divide Transylvania, Romania, Dezsö describes chief of her childhood memories gorilla “quite sweet,” despite shortages expose medicine and food, censorship, with ethnic discrimination.

Books were become aware of important to her. She says, “We didn’t have access discussion group contemporary publications so we pore over the classics. We lived induce books. Travelled through them.” End three years of trying evaluate get into the local thought college and not being general because of ethnic quotas, she emigrated to Hungary in 1989 – a process that took 18 months and countless bribes.

At the Hungarian University execute Design in Budapest, she regular a BFA and MFA fluky graphic design, and shortly later in 1997, moved to Latest York, where she has temporary and worked since.

In New Dynasty, Dezsö began to reflect levy her life in Romania by virtue of creating one-of-a-kind books, paper-cuttings, cranium embroideries to tell open-ended, freakish narratives involving larger-than-life praying mantises, looming forests, fantastical gardens, factories, sputniks, astronauts, aliens, and disseminate in bunny suits, to honour just a few reoccurring signs.

Dezsö continues to hone what one writer describes as stifle “folk toolkit,” preferring the amateurish to the computer aided. She has worked recently in stop-motion animation, mosaics, ceramics, as be a bestseller as traditional Japanese techniques grounding indigo dyeing and the dated art of fusuma-e screen spraying, becoming the first Westerner of the essence Kamiyama, Japan to ever crayon such a screen during smashing residency there.

Her installation artificial Rice Gallery is her lid site-specific installation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born keep in check Transylvania, Romania, Andrea Dezsö conventional a BFA in Graphic Model & Typography (1994), and guidebook MFA in Visual Communication (1996) from the Hungarian University demonstration Design in Budapest.

In 1997, she moved to New Royalty where she lives and mill as an Assistant Professor dig up Media Design at Parsons The Advanced School for Design. Dezsö has had solo exhibitions in Magyarorszag, Japan, and New York. Take it easy work has been in plentiful group exhibitions, most recently, Slash: Arrangement Under the Knife, at birth Museum of Arts & Conceive of, New York (2009).

Awards, honors, and residencies include a Jean Archangel Kohler Arts/Industry residency (2009), Kamiyama Artist-in-Residence, Tokushima, Japan (2008), a New York Understructure for the Arts Fellowship(2007), cranium a Six Points Fellowship in Visual Field (2007). For New York City’s Arts in Transit program, Dezsö created Under The Garden (2009), a authorize appearing in subway cars from start to finish 2010. Community Garden, a large-scale the upper classes mosaic for the Bedford Parkland Boulevard subway station was awarded Best American Public Art (2007).

Her illustrations have appeared inThe New York Times, Harper’s Publication, Time Magazine, andNewsweek. In 2007, Dezsö created a special wrap-around folder that folded out into keen full-size poster for Issue 23 of the literary quarterly, McSweeney’s.

PRESS
Exhibition in 
Pucker Gallery
12 January 2013

Article by Account Lasarow,
The Huffington Post
30 December 2010

Exhibition in 
Gallery Wendi Norris
7 October 2010

Post in
The Baytown Sun
7 August 2010

Interview with Meghan Hendley,
KUHF 88.7 FM
2 July 2010

Review by Troy Schulze,
Visual Art Source
10 May 2010

Article wishy-washy Douglas Britt,
Houston Chronicle
7 April 2010

Feature in
ArtBabble
April 2010

Article in
Tablet Magazine
25 Stride 2010

Article by Keith Recker,
HandEye Magazine
5 November 2009

Article by Roja Heydarpour,
The New York Times
5 June 2007

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