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

Art Terms

Lithography Print Cityscape Maps, borders,and networks Architectural drawing Contemporary art Graphic design

Exhibitions

Committed to Print

1988

Projects: Pier 18

1971

Printed Art: A View of Two Decades

1980

Views over America

1979