Andrzej Dudi Dudzinski, After the Birds XV (1991/2019)

Oil, acrylic/ canvas 63 x 83 cm

Andrzej Dudzinski was born in Sopot in 1945. He studied architecture at the Gdansk University of Technology in 1966-68, and then transferred to interior design and graphic design at the Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts. He completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, in the poster studio of Henryk Tomaszewski. He died in January 2023.

While still a student, he began publishing his drawings in the monthly Polska magazine and the weekly Szpilki and Kultura magazines. In 1970-72 Dudzinski lived in London, collaborating with underground magazines OZ, Ink, Frendz and Time Out.

In 1977 he was invited to the International Conference of Graphic Artists in Aspen, Colorado. After arriving in the States, he decided to settle in New York. From 1982 to 1990 he taught at Parsons School of Design in New York. He has collaborated with, among others: The Atlantic, Monthly, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The New York Times, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post and Time.

Andrzej Dudzinski's imagination has roots in Surrealism and manifests itself in grotesque rescaling of forms, absurd wit in mixing the world orders of people, animals and objects, surprising displacement and overlapping of collage, drawing, painting techniques, intuitive and arbitrary disposition of color.

Dudzinski has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, given at home and abroad by the Berlin International Book Fair, the Polish Society of Book Publishers, the Society of Newspaper Design, the Arts Directors Club of New York, the Society of Illustrators, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the London Advertising Awards Committee, among others.