Sprawl I

Andrea Zittel

2002

Andrea Zittel’s work is a large-scale lithograph made from sixteen sheets that turns highways, tract houses, and green islands into a repeated, decorative aerial map, translating planning diagrams into an image for contemplation.

A bold rust-red field studded with mirrored clusters of yellow-and-blue blocky buildings and looping gray ramps immediately reads like a kaleidoscopic aerial plan or wallpaper—ornamental, schematic, and oddly familiar all at once.

By treating suburban infrastructure as pattern, the print links graphic design, architectural drawing, and textile tradition to a critique of homogeneity and mass planning, making the visual language of sprawl legible and uncanny.

Palette

Exhibitions

Committed to Print

1988

Projects: Pier 18

1971

Printed Art: A View of Two Decades

1980

Views over America

1979