ANDREA ZITTEL

ANDREA ZITTEL (1946-)

Andrea Zittel was born in Escondido, California. In 1991 she settled in Brooklyn, New York. She founded her A-Z art enterprise, a project which has provided the framework within which she has conducted her research and designed, produced and tested her works ever since. In the second half of the 1990s, Zittel left New York repeatedly for extended periods, during which she stayed in Europe and explored non-urban America on long trips. In 2000 she purchased an abandoned home – a former so-called homestead cabin – and the associated property in Joshua Tree, in the desert east of Los Angeles. Zittel called it A–Z West and has made it her new site for experiment. Since then she has been living there and in Los Angeles.

This book assembles for the first time a major selection of Andrea Zittel’s gouaches and paintings on wood, a medium the artist has worked with since 1992. These colourful, picture-book-like works are sketches and illustrations which seem to document the emergence of Zittel’s life plan in a fascinating mixture of the anonymous report and the diary.