Edited by Sara O’Keeffe. Text by Nayland Blake, Pippa Garner, House of Ladosha, Chip Lord, Philippa Snow, McKenzie Wark, et al.
A kaleidoscopic introduction to five decades of visionary artist Pippa Garner’s work including gender hacking, custom cars and deviant proposals to solve everyday problems
Published in conjunction with Pippa Garner’s (born 1942) first institutional exhibition in New York, Pippa Garner: $ELL YOUR $ELF features her previously unpublished writing, including personal accounts of her gender transition-as-performance, with texts by contemporaries and admirers including McKenzie Wark, Nayland Blake and Chip Lord. Featuring hundreds of never-before-published images of Garner’s drawings, garments, classified ads and more, it brings into focus the artist’s singular approach to addressing—and parodying—the contradictions of commodity fetishism from the 1960s to today. Embracing pleasure, kink and the perversion of mass-produced products, Garner’s work imagines ways to restructure environments, everyday devices and conceptualizations of self. For much of her career, Garner has embedded her work in the world, often realizing projects outside the confines of galleries or museums, continually challenging what is strictly defined as art. This richly illustrated publication underscores Garner as a provocative and indispensable voice of our time.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Artnet
Min Chen
One could also argue that there’s never not a good time for a statement from Garner, who, over the course of a five-decade practice, has satirized, subverted, and otherwise sent up the ever-present scourge of consumerism.
Document Journal
Erin Ikeuchi
Turns expressions of consumerist exhaustion into something wonderful, embracing the perversion and pleasure of mass production.
T Magazine
Evan Moffitt
Few things have escaped her restless, imaginative tinkering, from automobiles to her own body.
Elephant
Orlando Estrada
Re-engineering everyday consumerism to reveal sinister truths about excess consumption, Garner deconstructs the foundational pillars of gender and sexuality through the products and mechanisms of Capitalism.
The New York Times: Arts
Zachary Small
The artist A.K. Burns, who resides in the Hudson Valley, described the exhibition as a “must-see” for anyone interested in the octogenarian’s work.
Office
Meyme Nakash
From billboards to algorithms to cars that drive themselves. Garner's show seemingly compels us to take the wheel and explore our latent desires as opposed to those that are right in front of us.
STATUS: Forthcoming | 11/7/2023
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Published by Pioneer Works Press/Art Omi. Edited by Sara O’Keeffe. Text by Nayland Blake, Pippa Garner, House of Ladosha, Chip Lord, Philippa Snow, McKenzie Wark, et al.
A kaleidoscopic introduction to five decades of visionary artist Pippa Garner’s work including gender hacking, custom cars and deviant proposals to solve everyday problems
Published in conjunction with Pippa Garner’s (born 1942) first institutional exhibition in New York, Pippa Garner: $ELL YOUR $ELF features her previously unpublished writing, including personal accounts of her gender transition-as-performance, with texts by contemporaries and admirers including McKenzie Wark, Nayland Blake and Chip Lord. Featuring hundreds of never-before-published images of Garner’s drawings, garments, classified ads and more, it brings into focus the artist’s singular approach to addressing—and parodying—the contradictions of commodity fetishism from the 1960s to today.
Embracing pleasure, kink and the perversion of mass-produced products, Garner’s work imagines ways to restructure environments, everyday devices and conceptualizations of self. For much of her career, Garner has embedded her work in the world, often realizing projects outside the confines of galleries or museums, continually challenging what is strictly defined as art. This richly illustrated publication underscores Garner as a provocative and indispensable voice of our time.
