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Garner’s (born 1942) first institutional exhibition in New York, Pippa Garner: $ELL YOUR $ELF features her previously unpublished writing, including personal accounts of her gender transition-as-performance, with texts by contemporaries and admirers including McKenzie Wark, Nayland Blake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.
Bookforum
Grace Byron
Garner’s playful tenacity and utopian contraptions gesture toward another politic—an eternal tinkering.
Bookforum
Grace Byron
Garner’s playful tenacity and utopian contraptions gesture toward another politic—an eternal tinkering.
The Whitney Review of New Writing
Yume Murphy
Across over 300 pages, the book dwells on equally kinky and cheeky conceptualizations of the corporeal self as a commodity, with the artist's own diaries endearing us to her decades-long pursuit of self-satisfaction—gender as a source of ennui and later, of triumph.
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Join Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore at 3 PM on Saturday, March 2, for a celebration of Pippa Garner: $ELL YOUR $ELF, published by Pioneer Works Press and Art Omi. Octogenarian and self-described “senior slut,” Pippa Garner’s lusty practice spans mail-order catalogs, classified ads, garments with cutouts, custom cars, tattoos and performances on the streets and on television. From the early aughts to the present, as Garner’s vision has waned, she has maintained a practice of producing a t-shirt a day, using iron-on letters to tinker with popular phrases in ways that reclaim their lusty potential and thumb her nose at assimilationist narratives. Join the legendary Misc. Pippa with artist P. Staff and curator Sara O'Keeffe as they discuss how to wreak havoc on the world as we know it.
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Visit us December 6–10, 2023! We're coming in hot with an assortment of art merch, limited run t-shirts by Pippa Garner, signed editions and, of course, books, books and more books! Our 2023 pop-up bookstore is located in the West Lobby of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Scroll down for special events and booth features! continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 352 pgs / 120 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $72.5 ISBN: 9781945711183 PUBLISHER: Pioneer Works Press/Art Omi AVAILABLE: 4/2/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: NA ONLY
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.
