Dimensions: 18 x 24 Inches
Medium: Archival Pigment print on textured fine art paper.
Provenance: Hand-signed by artist on reverse. Includes original certificate of authenticity from Always Art.
Edition: Limited Edition (Unknown Edition Size)
Year: 2025
Condition: Excellent
ARTIST BIO
b. 1965, Escondido, California
Andrea Zittel was born in Escondido, California, in 1965. She received a BFA in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University in 1988 and an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 1990. Since the early 1990s, Zittel has drawn from the worlds of architecture, design, advertising, and art to engage with the most basic human quotidian activities and needs. Through her work, the division between life and art is not only blurred, but rendered arbitrary and inadequate. Zittel moved to New York in 1992, while in the midst of planning Breeding Works (1991–93), for which she bred first flies, then quails, and then chickens. By 1992, she devised A–Z Administrative Apparel, which was soon after renamed A–Z Administrative Services, a fictional corporation under whose name Zittel has conceived projects up to this day. The organization, complete with logo and advertising, responds to the social norms by which human activity is conceived, compartmentalized, and enacted. For example, the A–Z Personal Uniform (begun in 1991, with subsequent redesigns over the following years) was constructed by the artist for the artist to suit the demands of her daily life. For A–Z Carpet Furniture (1992–93), carpets with geometric configurations that apportioned spaces for tables, chairs, beds, and other furniture allowed for a pared-down living space whose configuration could be altered in a number of seconds. In these early years Zittel created her first versions of the A–Z Management and Maintenance Unit (1992) and the A–Z Living Unit (1993), compact spaces designed to efficiently organize activity and space. For these units, Zittel would manufacture a prototype, which the consumer could freely customize. In 1994 Zittel opened The A–Z (renamed A–Z East in 2000), an apartment, studio, and presentation space in Brooklyn that served as a beacon to abate the isolation of urban life. The A–Z Travel Trailer Unit (1995), also a response to the confining nature of the city, offered a vehicle for travel and exploration within a specifically American middle-class guise. In 1999 Zittel installed in Central Park Point of Interest: An A–Z Land Brand, a series of concrete and steel structures which mimicked the jutting grey stone characteristic to the park and invited communal gathering and activity.
Zittel has had solo exhibitions at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburg (1994), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995), Musuem fur Gegenwartskunst in Basel (1996), Sammlung Goetz in Munich (2003), Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (2005), and Whitney Museum at Altria in New York (2006). She has also been included in important group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (1993), Whitney Biennial (1995 and 2004), Against Design at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia (2000), New Work/New Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art (2005), and Shapes of Space at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2007). Among her many distinctions and honors, Zittel has been awarded a Deutschen Akademischen Austausdienst (DAAD Grant) (1995), College Art Association Distinguished Body of Work Award (2006), and AICA Award for Best Architecture or Design Show (2007). She lives and works in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California.