Andrea Zittel

Adrea Zittel is developing a design for a large floating island to be installed in the lake of 100 Acres. The island will be functional and inhabitable, with an interior space that can be approached by rowboat and explored by park visitors. With many uses, including picnics, classes and various exploratory journeys, the island will be an experiment in modular living, examining the daily needs of contemporary human beings.

Since the early 1990s, Andrea Zittel has used her artwork to explore the concepts of environment and sustainability, creating functional objects inspired by basic human needs. In 1999, Public Art Fund commissioned Zittel to create a site-specific installation for New York’s Central Park, Points of Interest, which used large fake rocks to illustrate the painstaking design inherent in creating a “natural” public space. That same year, Zittel created A-Z Pocket Property, a 54-ton floating concrete island off the coast of Scandinavia. Zittel’s recent exhibitions include solo shows at Whitney Museum of Art at Altria, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Image Credit: Andrea Zittel, A-Z Prototype for Pocket Property, 1999.
© Andrea Zittel. Courtesy of the artist and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.