Act Like You Know Me

This comprehensive monograph of American artist Pippa Garner, ACT LIKE YOU KNOW ME is published in conjunction with the touring exhibition of the same title.

Born in the suburbs of Chicago in 1942, the artist 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 production subverting commercial binaries to reveal the transitory nature of material life and her own transpersonal identity.

This publication surveys fifty years of her transdisciplinary artistic practice, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s, through photography, illustration, ephemera, and original writings.
Encompassing Garnerʼs most iconic works, alongside never-before-seen photographs and ephemera. It also includes texts about her oeuvre from Glenn OʼBrien, Ralph Rugoff, and Hayden Dunham, in addition to three new original commissions from Shola von Reinhold, Dodie Bellamy, and Fiona Alison Duncan.