Pippa Garner: Act Like You Know Me

The comprehensive monograph and critical survey of American artist Pippa Garner, ACT LIKE YOU KNOW ME covers fifty years of her radical and transdisciplinary art practice, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s, through ca. 400 photographs, illustration, ephemera, and original writings. Encompassing Garners most iconic works, from the Backwards Car to the Half-Suit, alongside never-before-seen photographs and ephemera, ACT LIKE YOU KNOW ME serves to introduce a highly-influential, underrecognized artist whose uncompromising approach to life and practice has allowed her to interact with the worlds of illustration, editorial, television, and art without ever becoming beholden to them. Born in the suburbs of Chicago in 1942, the artist formerly known as Philip Garner has satirized American-style consumerism for decades, reifying the joys of everyday life and personal liberation along her way. With her prankish sense of humour and conceptual dedication to experimental engineering, she has altered materials of mass productionfrom Fordism through the pharmacopornographic erasubverting commercial binaries to reveal the transitory nature of material life and her own transpersonal identity.