Andrea Dezso

Biography
Andrea Dezsö is a visual artist who works across a broad range of media including drawing, artist's books, cut paper, embroidery, sculpture, site-specific installation, animation and large-scale public art.

Community Garden, Dezsö's large-scale public mosaic installed in the New York City subway was recognized as Best American Public Art by Americans for the Arts in 2007. Her second permanent public art project for the NYC subway, Nature Rail, a 58 panel stainless steel work in Brooklyn and Blueberry Garden, a 45-foot mosaic for the United States Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, were installed in 2012. In The Air, Dezsö's most recent permanent public art, a suite of 6 mosaic murals on 3500 square feet of wall space were installed at CUNY BMCC Fiterman Hall in Lower Manhattan in 2014. Dezsö exhibits in museums and galleries around the world, and teaches widely.

Dezsö is represented by the Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York and Pucker Gallery in Boston.

She is Associate Professor of Art at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Examples of Dezsö's work can be seen at www.andreadezso.com

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Courses
Fall 2013


 * HACU-0106-1 Introduction to Painting on Paper, Board, Sketchbook, and Wall


 * HACU-0277: 200 Studio Seminar: Invitation to Participate & Art Without Artifact

Spring 2013


 * HACU-0219: Drawing Studio 200: A Deeper Connection with Drawing


 * HACU-0276: A Place of Freedom: The Artist's Sketchbook

Fall 2012


 * HACU 136T-1 Tutorial: Introduction to Painting on Paper, Board, Canvas, and Wall


 * HACU-0312-1 Division III Visual Art Concentrators Seminar in Visual Art

Spring 2012


 * HACU-0219: Drawing Studio 200: A Deeper Connection with Drawing


 * HACU-0313: 300 Studio: Advanced Projects

Fall 2011


 * HACU-0106-1 Introduction to Painting on Paper, Board, Canvas, and Wall


 * HACU-0293-1 Division II Studio Seminar: Painting Your Own Reality--from Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) to Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943 and Margaret Kilgallen (1967-2001).

In The News

 * THIRTEEN - Treasures of New York: Art Underground
 * PBS Off Book: Book Art
 * New York Times slideshow on new public art in the NY subways
 * Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Haunted Ridgefield, Andrea's Solo Exhibition
 * New York Times, June 5th 2007: Art as a Bitter Pill, Coated With Sweetener
 * New York Foundation for the Arts: Andrea Dezsö on Making Art for McSweeney's
 * Hand/Eye magazine, 2009: http://www.handeyemagazine.com/node/114