A long time ago Andrea Zittel spoke in Portland about her work. Her themes have been DIY domestic existence including clothing.
She described living in a room for a month with no sense of time - clock, daylight, or external communications. She has built unit interiors to live in, their furnishings, and eatware. A big project was AZ West in Joshua Tree.
The funniest story was an account of her work in NYC as an art gallery assistant. It always has a visible-invisible dynamic in high end commercial galleries. Because she was poor, she sewed two little black dresses. After 2 years working there on the second last day of work, the gallery owner asked if she had worn that dress before.
Regen Projects https://www.regenprojects.com/exhibitions/andrea-zittel8 has gathered the second retrospective of the uniforms Zittel has sewn as her art of life. It is a fertile project. We see uniforms daily and some have worn them in their work life. We also have freeform uniforms, a set of conventions to compose in for work and play.
https://spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/andrea-zittel-a-z-uniform-series-1991-2002-munich/ (2003)
https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s1/andrea-zittel-in-consumption-segment/ (2001)
http://www.mit.edu/~allanmc/zittel1.pdf (2004)
https://wwd.com/feature/uniforms-are-essential-in-zittel-s-critical-space-545612-1988429/ (2006)
https://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/andrea-zittel (2015)
https://www.vogue.com/article/andrea-zittel-a-to-z-personal-uniforms-third-decade (2023)
At Regen Projects 6750 Santa Monica Blvd, LA, CA Free
