Andrea Zittel
Artist, Joshua Tree

In 1991 artist Andrea Zittel started a project in which she produced works exploring the trappings of her daily life-furniture, clothes, mobile homes-as both experimental and utilitarian art objects. Recently, the artist reflected on her entire practice through the touring survey exhibition, "Critical Space," and a retrospective at the Schaulager, Basel. With the chance to install and experience together works from the past 18 years, she returned to her studio to produce a series of intimate new artworks for her spring 2009 exhibition at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York.

Entitled "Energetic Accumulators and Ideological Resonators," the lecture will focus on Andrea Zittel's recent investigations of living space, objects and routines. It will offer us an inside look at her negotiations of the line between emancipation and restriction, and the creativity emerging from a reaction to constraints, bridging these concerns in art and life and seeing how problem solving and planning can result in a complex visual language.

Organized as a collaboration with the Columbia University School of the Arts