Visual artist Andrea Deszo is featured in Slash: Paper Under the Knife group exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design, curated by David Revere McFadden, and Laura Stern.

The exhibition takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations.

[Excerpts from the press release]

[Image: Andrea Dezsö - COMMUNITY GARDEN has been awarded Best American Public Art 2007 by Americans for the Arts. Community Garden has been installed at the Bedford Park Blvd Lehman College subway station #4 train in NYC. Artwork commissioned and owned by MTA Arts for Transit, fabricated by Miotto Mosaics]