Andrea Zittel
Andrea Zittel ( born September 6, 1965 in Escondido ( California)) is an American sculptor and installation artist.
Life and work
Zittel graduated from San Diego State University ( BFA 1988 ). She graduated in 1990 at the Rhode Iceland School of Design with a Master of Fine Arts. In 1995 she took part in the Berlin Artists Program of the DAAD.
Zittel transformed their works, which consist of sculptures and installations of home furnishings and garments, in a habitable, artificial world in which blur the boundaries between art and life and leave their own social environment arise.
Inspired by modern design and architecture and the work of the Bauhaus artists such as Anni and Josef Albers, the Austrian architect Margarete Schütte- Lihotzky, the American Richard Buckminster Fuller and the furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames, they decorated with playful wit of these handcrafted objects installations and residential models ( " living Units " ) as an autonomous life habitats.
In 1994, she moved into a three-story building in Brooklyn, New York, which she called " AZ East " and served her for experimental research as a workshop and project space of six years. In it, she explored the eating, sleeping, clothing and washing habits of the temporary residents. In 1999 she moved with her project " AZ West " on a 10 acre site in California's Mojave desert at Joshua Tree, where she further developed her " Experiments in Living".