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Andrea Dezsö

ART

• Tunnel Books 1 2 3 4
• Insect Books 1 2
• Painted Journals 1 2 3 4 5
• 3D Books 1 2 3 4 5 6
• Color Pencil Books 1 2
• Sketchbooks 1 2 3 4 5
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• Mural Art 1 2 3 4 5 6
• Silhouette 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
• Drawing 1 2 3
• Embroidery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
• Installation 1 2 3
• Animation 1
  

PROJECTS

• McSweeney's 1 2 3
• Publikum Calendar 1 2 3
• The Demon Bridegroom 1 2

WRITING

• Illustrated Fiction 1 2 3 4
  
• Non-Fiction 1 2 3 4 5 6
• Fiction Writing 1 2 3

TEACHING

• Interface Studio 1 2 3 4 5 6
• Typography 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
• Collaborations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
• Design Process 1 2 3
• Book Design 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
  
• Immigrant Mural 1 2 3 4

FEATURES

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My grandmother Mamushka's pantry wall hanging is the first one I remember clearly. It was a white rectangular canvas embroidered in blue, with a rose in its center rendered precisely in the illustrative style of my schoolbooks. Around the rose snaked the warning, sewn in a fancy, old-fashioned script: "There are no roses without thorns, there is no love without tears." Mamushka had a wall hanging in her kitchen too, this one sewn in red. It said, "I want the kind of husband who does not go to bars, a husband who eats his dinner at home, and appreciates his family." Underneath the text was an image of a young, slightly cross-eyed man, eating at a kitchen table, surrounded by his family. The embroidered kitchen in which this embroidered man ate his embroidered dinner had a miniature embroidered wall hanging of its own.
Excerpt from Andrea Dezsö: The Kitsch in the Kitchen, published in Print Magazine 2004 May, pages 2-7
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