ANDREA DEZSÖ February 21 – March 28, 2014
nancy margolis gallery
ANDREA DEZSÖ 2/21 - 3/28/15
Nancy Margolis Gallery is pleased to announce Andrea Deszö’s second solo exhibition is to open Saturday, February 21 through March 28, 2015. The artist reception will take place Saturday, February 21, 2 to 4pm and is open to the public. Inventive, brilliant, undaunted by complexity or scale mixed media artist Andrea Dezsö, masters a multitude of materials to execute numerous projects ranging from intimate graphite drawings, book illustrations, magnificent mosaics, paper tunnel books, large ink drawing, sandblasted glass, subway murals, colored marker on paper, a long list reflecting Dezsö’s exceptional capacity to take on any challenge regardless of medium. Growing up in communist Romania, Dezsö found art and literature allowed an escape from the rigid limitations the regime imposed on the lives of people. Absorbed, introspective, Dezsö took control of her life by creating her own worlds filled with wishful flights to charmed lands of dark beauty, and haunting iconography. Dezsö’s art, boundless, unrestrained blends a personal vision, contemporary sensibility with a touch of darkness born of Romanian/ Hungarian expression. In the current exhibition Dezsö brings together many creative moments, some familiar, others more recent. Utilizing the flat glass technique learned during a two week 2014 residency at Pilchuck Glass Dezsö succeeded in transposing the layering concept used in her popular paper tunnel books into multi layers of glass panels to form a tunnel book, ”Girl and Devil in Underwater Cave”, and four, one-of-a-kind single flat glass panels sandblasted with lively pictorial scenes. While visiting Hawaii in 2014 Dezsö made a series of marker drawings and one long drawing 112” x 36.75” made with marker, latex paint, ink, and collage. An exciting addition to the upcoming exhibition are the illustrations Dezsö was commissioned to do for the Princeton University Press publication of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, Translated and edited by Jack Zipes. Andrea Dezsö earned both her BFA in graphic design and typography and her MFA in visual communications from the Hungarian University of Design, Budapest. Her work has been exhibited in collections nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Rice University Art Gallery, Houston; and Fujikawa Kirie Art Museum, Japan, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Dezsö and her work have also been reviewed by Art Forum, Art News, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, PBS, and New York Magazine. In 2007, Dezsö was awarded Best American Public Art for her large-scale mosaic, Community Garden, installed in the Bedford Park Boulevard/Lehman College subway station in the Bronx, New York City. Dezsö is also an award-winning illustrator, and her illustrations have been featured in many books, CD covers, and magazines. She is currently Associate Professor of Art at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Previously, she served on the faculty of the Parsons School of Design, New York.
Grimm Cover, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Frog King, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Twelve Brothers, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
Herr Fix It Up, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
Grimm Cover, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Singing Bone, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Elves - Changeling, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Godfather, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
Simple Hans, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
Godfather Sparrow, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
Oklero, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Three Sisters, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Young Giant, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Devil in the Green Coat, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
Hans my Hedgehog, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Blue Light, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Long Nose, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Solider and the Carpenter, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Wild Man, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Little Donkey, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Golden Key, 2014, ink on paper, 8 x 11�
The Wild Man, 2014, embossed print on paper, 12 x 18�
The Whale, 2014, embossed print on paper, 12 x 18�
Devil in the Green Coat, 2014, embossed print on paper, 12 x 18�
The Godfather, 2014, embossed print on paper, 12 x 18�
From top left to right: The Wild Man, The Whale, Devil in the Green Coat, 2014, sand-blasted glass panel, 12 x 16 x .25�
Devil on a Stroll, 2014, sand-blasted glass panel, 21 x 7 x .15�
Walking with the Devil Under the Sea, 2014, sand-blasted glass panel, 18 x 5 x .25�
Girl & Devil in underwater cave, 2014, sand-blasted glass tunnel book, 18 x 12 x 4�
Forest Stroll with Goat, 2014, hand-cut Japanese made kozo paper, 14.25 x 11 x 7�
Meeting 1-8, 2014, Marker on paper, 8 x 6.25�
Meeting 9-12, 2014, Marker on paper, 8 x 6.25�
Test Hawaii Tattoo, 2014, Marker on paper, 12.5 x 9.25�
Test Maui Reef, 2014, Marker on paper, 12.5 x 9.25�
Test Neon Garden, 2014, Marker on paper, 12.5 x 9.25�
Test Rubin Museum, 2014, Marker on paper, 12.5 x 9.25�
Hawaii Paintings 1-15, 2014, Marker on paper, 12.5 x 9.25�
All Beings, 2014, markers, latex paint, ink, collage on paper, 112 x 36.75�
Andrea Dezsö is a visual artist who works across a broad range of media including drawing, painting, artist's books, embroidery, cut paper, animation, sculpture, site-specific installation and public art. Dezsö's permanent public art has been installed in two New York City subway stations, at the United States Embassy in Bucharest, Romania and at CUNY BMCC Fiterman Hall in Lower Manhattan. Community Garden, Dezsö's mosaic in the New York City subway was recognized as Best American Public Art in 2007 by Americans for the Arts. Dezsö exhibits in museums and galleries around the world, and is represented by the Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York and Pucker Gallery in Boston. Dezsö is an award-winning illustrator whose work has been featured in books, magazines, album covers and signage, and by The New York Times, Harper's, Sony Music, Princeton University Press, The New York Botanical Garden, New York University and Candlewick Press. Dezsö is Associate Professor of Art at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and maintains studios in NYC and Western Mass.
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