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A-Z West Works by Andrea Zittel
Approximately 9 inches wide
A-Z Containers are handmade ceramic bowls that serve all eating and drinking functions. Andrea Zittel began using containers in daily life in the early 1990’s and they continue to serve as the sole dinnerware used at A-Z West. Large bowls are perfect for main meals, medium bowls for cereals, sides, or tea, and small bowls are just right for a cocktail.
Each bowl is hand-made - textures, shapes and glaze patterns may vary.
A-Z West Covers are hand-woven textiles made in the A-Z West weaving studio on one of the floor looms that we share with a growing community of weavers. Zittel first started using covers in the early 1990s as versatile objects that, depending on need, could serve a multitude of functions from cloak to tablecloth to curtain.
Covers take time to weave! We list them as they come off the looms - the studio currently produces about seven covers a year.
A-Z West Covers are hand-woven textiles made in the A-Z West weaving studio on one of the floor looms that we share with a growing community of local weavers. Zittel first started using covers in the early 1990s as versatile objects that, depending on need, could serve a multitude of functions from cloak to tablecloth to curtain.
Covers take time to weave! We list them as they come off the looms - the studio currently produces about twelve covers a year.
A-Z West Covers are hand-woven textiles made in the A-Z West weaving studio on one of the floor looms that we share with a growing community of weavers. Zittel first started using covers in the early 1990s as versatile objects that, depending on need, could serve a multitude of functions from cloak to tablecloth to curtain.
Covers take time to weave! We list them as they come off the looms - the studio currently produces about seven covers a year.
A-Z West Covers are hand-woven textiles made in the A-Z West weaving studio on one of the floor looms that we share with a growing community of weavers. Zittel first started using covers in the early 1990s as versatile objects that, depending on need, could serve a multitude of functions from cloak to tablecloth to curtain.
Covers take time to weave! We list them as they come off the looms - the studio currently produces about seven covers a year. While the blue and gold are currently sold out, production is underway, with a new color releasing late 2025: grey!
Designed by Andrea Zittel and produced at A-Z West in Joshua Tree, A-Z West Works are functional objects that support High Desert Test Sites in its mission to provide experimental arts programming through residencies, workshops, publications, exhibitions and events, and site stewardship.
The A-Z West Stools are simple, don’t clutter the visual lines of a table, help you sit straight, and they are multi functional. We originally designed these stools for the the A-Z West shipping container apartments - and then kept making more to use all over the compound. Now we are making a few to populate the studio store.
Powder-coated steel with canvas upholstery
(Custom colors available by special request)
24” wide, 19” deep, 19” high.
A-Z West Sconces were first designed for the Guest Cabin at A-Z West. They are based on an earlier cube-shaped wooden lamp design that Zittel made several variations on for both A-Z East in Brooklyn New York, (1994-2000) and the main house at A-Z West (2000-2021).
A-Z West Sconces can be customized in other colors and sizes and can also be fabricated as a desk or table lamp.
*Because A-Z West Sconces contain glass and are fragile we recommend local pick up, or you can contact the info@hdts.site for special shipping arrangements.
A-Z West Sconces were first designed for the Guest Cabin at A-Z West. They are based on an earlier cube-shaped wooden lamp design that Zittel made several variations on for both A-Z East in Brooklyn New York, (1994-2000) and the main house at A-Z West (2000-2021).
A-Z West Sconces can be customized in other colors and sizes and can also be fabricated as a desk or table lamp.
*Because A-Z West Sconces contain glass and are fragile we recommend local pick up, or you can contact the info@hdts.site for special shipping arrangements.
Designed by Andrea Zittel and produced at A-Z West in Joshua Tree, A-Z West Works are functional objects that support High Desert Test Sites in its mission to provide experimental arts programming through residencies, workshops, publications, exhibitions and events, and site stewardship.
A-Z West Sconces were first designed for the Guest Cabin at A-Z West. They are based on an earlier cube-shaped wooden lamp design that Zittel made several variations on for both A-Z East in Brooklyn New York, (1994-2000) and the main house at A-Z West (2000-2021). A-Z West Sconces can be customized in other colors and sizes and can also be fabricated as a desk or table lamp.
*Because A-Z West Sconces contain glass and are fragile we recommend local pick up, or you can contact the info@hdts.site for special shipping arrangements.
Designed by Andrea Zittel and produced at A-Z West in Joshua Tree, A-Z West Works are functional objects that support High Desert Test Sites in its mission to provide experimental arts programming through residencies, workshops, publications, exhibitions and events, and site stewardship.
A-Z West Works are functional objects distilled from Andrea Zittel’s practice of experimental living. They are produced in our studios at A-Z West and support the nonprofit work of HDTS and its stewardship of A_Z West.
Collaborations
We’re releasing our new 2025 shirt with Jack Pierson, screen printed from a hand drawing by that artist. The End of the World, a monumental wooden sign, was first created in 2012 and later installed as part of HDTS 2022. Pierson’s work reclaims the weathered language of roadside America—neon, tin, and wood salvaged from forgotten motels and fading saloons—transforming it into poetic markers of place and time. The End of the World stands as a bold gesture to Wonder Valley, a place known for those who drop off the edge of civilization.
Jack Pierson
TEOTW Silver, 2025
Baltic birch and paint
24 × 20 in
Unique series of 20
Jack Pierson
TEOTW Copper, 2025
Baltic birch and paint
24 × 20 in
Unique series of 2, 1 AP
Andrea Zittel and Liza Lou
Untitled, 2024
Hand-spun wool yarn and glass beads on cotton warp
24.5 × 21 inches, framed
HDTS Merch
We’re releasing our new 2025 shirt with Jack Pierson, screen printed from a hand drawing by that artist. The End of the World, a monumental wooden sign, was first created in 2012 and later installed as part of HDTS 2022. Pierson’s work reclaims the weathered language of roadside America—neon, tin, and wood salvaged from forgotten motels and fading saloons—transforming it into poetic markers of place and time. The End of the World stands as a bold gesture to Wonder Valley, a place known for those who drop off the edge of civilization.
We are releasing our new 2024 shirt in homage to the elusive yet enduring qualities of one of our earliest HDTS artworks. Andrea Zittel curated Chris Kasper's I'M SORRY sign into our very first HDTS event in 2002. The sculpture was an existing work by Kasper, but Zittel appreciated how it subtly alluded to the complicated relationship that emerges when installing artworks in the desert.
This work still exists today in an unannounced location, which some of you may have stumbled across when visiting A-Z West.
The limited edition HDTS 2022 x Other Desert Radio shirts are now available for online purchase!
Each shirt commemorates the opening of HDTS 2022: The Searchers and the opening night party with Other Desert Radio. On the front is a playlist from the opening party on April 9, 2022. The sleeves are printed with The HDTS Searchers logo.
T-shirts can also be purchased in-person at the HDTS HQ at the Sky Village Swap Meet on Saturdays between 9am-1pm through May 21, 2022.
Proceeds benefit future HDTS programming and events.
Check out Other Desert Radio and hear a recording of the special performance they presented on April 9 here.
Artist Editions
Eric-Paul Riege
how to skin + mount a yoke, 2024
Pigment print
20 x 20 inches
Edition of 25, 2 APs
Framed
HDTS Editions provide a unique opportunity to both contribute to the future of High Desert Test Sites through the purchase of artwork, and to honor artists whose work has significantly contribute to contemporary art in our high desert region. Eric-Paul Riege was the inaugural HDTS Fellow in 2023.
About the Artist
Eric-Paul Riege (b. 1994, Na’nízhoozhí [Gallup, New Mexico]) uses a rich array of natural and synthetic materials—including wool, cotton, shells, faux fur, and human hair—to create his signature woven sculptures that reflect on the Diné (Navajo) philosophy of hózhó. Hózhó, as a practice in everyday life as well as in Riege’s own artistic practice, is a worldview which encompasses the values of beauty, balance, and goodness in all things physical and spiritual. For the artist, hózhó lives in the continuation of the Indigenous weaving and jewelry-making traditions inherited within his own family history, particularly from his maternal ancestors. Often displaying these intricate objects as suspended looms, and activating them through video and performance, Riege uses space, sound, and gravity like any other material manipulated by the artistic hand. What results are sensorial installations built in homage to cosmology, craft, and inherited knowledge, where the spiritual and physical realms of memory are bridged as one.
Riege’s work exhibited at the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art; the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans as part of Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow (2021); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2019); and at the 2018 SITElines Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He earned a BFA in Studio Art and Ecology from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 2017. His work is in the collections of Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Forge Projects, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Shipping information to be confirmed following purchase.
Wade Guyton
Untitled, 2018
Archival pigment print
15.5 x 21.5 inches
Edition of 25
HDTS Editions directly support High Desert Test Sites operations and programming, and honor contemporary artists whose work embodies the HDTS mission. Wade Guyton was selected from our growing roster of over 500 artists who have presented projects with High Desert Test Sites since its inception in 2002.
From the years 1995-1998, Divola would frequent the east-end of the Morongo Valley to work on a series of photographs titled Isolated Homes. Dogs would occasionally chase his car, and so he started to bring a 35mm camera equipped with a motor drive to capture these spontaneous moments. Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert is a photograph from this time. High Desert Test Sites editions provide a unique opportunity to both contribute to the future of High Desert Test Sites through the purchase of artwork, and to honor artists who’s work has significantly contributed to contemporary art in our high desert region.
Approximately 10 inches wide
A-Z Containers are handmade ceramic bowls that serve all eating and drinking functions. Andrea Zittel began using containers in daily life in the early 1990’s and they continue to serve as the sole dinnerware used at A-Z West. Large bowls are perfect for main meals, medium bowls for cereals, sides, or tea, and small bowls are just right for a cocktail.
Each bowl is hand-made - textures, shapes and glaze patterns may vary.