« There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens »
- Andrea Zittel
One of her works, "Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art" was featured at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum and the Public Art Fund commissioned her to create a specific project for the southeast entrance to New York's Central Park. This piece serves as a reminder the park is a precisely planned natural environment. Her piece allows park visitors an alternative place to sit rather than the typical park bench. Andrea Zittel continues to investigate contemporary visions of freedom and personal liberation. Her idea of personal liberation is created through individual attempts to "slip between the cracks." Rather than building large and permanent homesteads, she prefers small and portable structures. Andrea Zittel’s work expresses her feelings of creating independence for the owner in its adaptability, compactness and transport-ability. Her intent was to move to the desert to attain a living space alone, but has ended up doing many social and public projects as her idea of art has grown and been accepted. Andrea Zittel's enterprise continues to express all aspects of day to day living through her art designs creating home furniture and clothing. She is still seeking the understanding of the human nature and social construction of people's needs to further her art. (Artist website) Read Less
- Andrea Zittel
