Art & Design
Andrea Zittel
From her studio in Joshua Tree, California, Andrea Zittel discusses her approach to design. “Every space that I’ve lived in I’ve turned into an art project,” she says. “And I think that everything in [my] house has really evolved with my life.”
Zittel’s property in Joshua Tree is a site of experimentation, where she questions the distinction between the art and design disciplines by constantly renovating her interior space, and creating utilitarian yet conceptually significant objects.
“I think that the ambiguity of how things are meant to be used is deliberate,” says Zittel, whose Aggregated Stacks (2010) and different weavings can serve everyday functions while also reflecting modernist concerns.
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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.
