Zittel receives Lucelia Award

Artist Andrea Zittel, who likes to blur the line between art and high-concept design, has been named the winner of one of the art world’s biggest prizes. She is the fifth recipient of the $25,000 Lucelia Artist Award, given annually by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to a leading American artist under 50. Zittel, who is based in Joshua Tree, Calif., is 39.

Zittel’s design-based art, like the utopian modernism of the early 20th century, attempts to “extend the artist’s activity to all levels of social production,” in the words of the catalog for a 1997 exhibition in Kassel, Germany.