Andrea Dezsö is an artist, writer, and teacher at Parsons The New School of Design in New York. Her work has been widely exhibited and published by McSweeney's and Fantagraphics, among others. Her art ranges from bookmaking to papercuttings to embroidery to typography to macabre sculptures made out of insects and burrs...all of which you can find on her website, which is a delight to wander through.
Interviewed by George Mill, Dezsö noted: "I have been in love with space since I was a child in Communist Romania with all the space-race propaganda around. We learned that Soviet space exploration was the best, and Gagarin was our biggest hero. I love the naïvely bold imagery of that period, graphics meant to convey man’s power to conquer space."
Recently Dezsö was awarded the 2007 Six Points Fellowship in Visual Arts to create The Demon Bridegroom and Other Stories, a series of animated video shorts. These will be based, she says, "on mystical Jewish folk stories from my native Eastern Europe. I will use the folk tales as the foundation into which I will weave my own thoughts and experiences departing from a literal depiction of the tales. The animations will reflect elements of Jewish mysticism and humor, in which reality and fantasy intertwine, characters transcend time and space, travel between worlds, and interact with beings from other realms."
She'll be posting more material on this as the project develops, so keep an eye on project's web page.
I love this stuff...especially the beautiful silhouette work.
Posted by: Midori | August 10, 2007 at 12:41 PM