Tunnel Books with Andrea Dezsö

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Andrea Dezsö’s tunnel book installation in Slash: Paper Under the Knife continues to mesmerize visitors with its intricate and atmospheric view into the dream world of the subconscious. For this hands-on workshop, Dezsö will guide participants through her own process of creation, and teach the basics of tunnel book construction. During this workshop each participant will build a four-layered, hand cut and assembled tunnel book.

What are Tunnel books?   Tunnel books are Victorian pop-up books which showcase layered 3-dimensional scenes in a collapsible case. Scenes containing background, surroundings and characters are first drawn, colored and cut out on each individual layer, then the layers are stacked and mounted together inside the case to create the book. The tunnel format is particularly suited for creating a stage-like setting, exploring dreams and memory.

Romanian-born Andrea Dezsö, a visual artist and writer, has taught tunnel book workshops at venues including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City and The Museum of Visionary Art in Baltimore, MD. For Slash: Paper Under The Knife, Andrea created an installation consisting of 30 one-of-a-kind tunnel books. Examples of Andrea Dezsö's tunnel books and other work can be seen on her website at www.andreadezso.com. Andrea Dezsö earned her BFA and MAFA in visual communication at the Hungarian University of Design in Budapest. Following a year of teaching at her alma mater, Dezsö moved to New York, where she exhibited her work in galleries and held teaching positions at Parsons School of Design and the City University of New York. In addition ot solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Japan, She has participated in numerous group exhibitions. Her public art projects are found in Budapest and in the New York subway at the Bedford Park Boulevard-Lehman College Station. Dezsö’s illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Time Magazine, Mc Sweeney’s and others. Currently, she is assistant professor of media design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York.