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Andrea Dezsö’s Nature Wall” (2018) at the recent
Utrecht Ave (N,W) station in Brooklyn expands on her nearby metal
artwork at the 62nd Street (D) station entitled “Nature Rail” (2012),
borrowing it’s plant and animal motifs for the cascading set of colorful glass
and ceramic mosaic murals (fabricated by Miotto Mosaics). Speaking approximately her
inspiration for this artwork, and Dezsö shared that her “imagination was captured
by how wild plants found ways to survive and thrive in this very urban area.
From abandoned lots to areas between buildings,nature found ways to grow
alongside construction sites, structures of steel and concrete, or even in
potholes. It made me smile every time I saw an uninvited,un-nurtured plant
surviving entirely on its own on the urban stage.” She envisions her artwork as
a celebration of this “urban thriving.” More of Andrea Dezsos work can be seen
in “Transfigured”, an exhibition of four artists who transcend the
boundaries of their artistic medium, or currently on
view at C24 Gallery through 2/23,
and in “In the Deep Heart’s Core”, opening 1/24 at NYU Langone Art Gallery.
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