Andrea Dezsö is a pro­lific visual artist whose work spans draw­ing, book mak­ing, cut paper, embroi­dery, and pub­lic art.

Andrea’s work shows a keen under­stand­ing of media and visu­als, and it is obvi­ous that she appeals to a wide array of of view­ers. I am par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in her artist books and embroidery.

Her tun­nel books were on dis­play at the Slash:Paper Under the Knife exhi­bi­tion and one of my favorite pieces. If you aren’t famil­iar with the for­mat of a tun­nel book, it’s a book com­prised of images that you look through to 3D land­scapes. Andrea cre­ated mul­ti­ple tun­nel books that illus­trate Tran­syl­va­nia folk­lore and myth. The tun­nel book for­mat was very appro­pri­ate; the folk­lore are sto­ries, and it’s log­i­cal that they would be pre­sented in the form of a book. There is also depth and hier­ar­chy in a tun­nel book, and at times can make for an quasi-eerie light­ing and really set the mood for the draw­ings and their content.

Andrea’s embroi­dery project is humor­ous; she took say­ings from her mother and embroi­dered them. Some of the say­ings are inap­pro­pri­ate, some funny, some just ill-advised. The pre­sen­ta­tion is of these pieces rem­i­nis­cent of an old dish towel, like some­thing that would be passed down from daugh­ter to mother.

I can really appre­ci­ate that Andrea has such a won­der­ful knowl­edge of mate­ri­als. It really allows her to make things that are highly appro­pri­ate for their sub­ject matter.

All images via her web­site.