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Andrea Zittel in "Consumption"

Andrea Zittel

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From her experimental home and clothing projects to her artificial Pocket Property island off the coast of Denmark, Andrea Zittel is an artist who truly “lives” art. “We’re obsessed with perfection, we’re obsessed with innovation and moving forwards. But what we really want is the hope of some sort of a new and improved or better tomorrow.”

Filmed in Zittel’s Brooklyn home and studio, which serves as her artful business A-Z Administrative Services, the artist takes the viewer on a tour of her specially designed bathroom, furniture, and wardrobe—a whimsical blend of the artist’s Southern California roots and 20th Century Modernist design philosophy.

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Andrea Zittel was born in 1965 in Escondido, California, and currently lives and works in Joshua Tree, CA. She received a BFA in painting and sculpture in 1988 from San Diego State University and an MFA in sculpture in 1990 from the Rhode Island School of Design. Zittel works at the intersections of design, art, and architecture to create a body of work that questions human nature and our construction of meaning, values, and social norms. Through textiles, furniture, and installation, the artist places self-imposed systems, rules, and restrictions in order to imagine alternative ways of living.

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