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<p>The <b>first comprehensive monograph</b> and critical survey of American artist Pippa Garner, <i>ACT LIKE YOU KNOW ME,</i> surveys <b>fifty years</b> of her radical and trans-disciplinary art practice, from the late 1960's to the early 2010's, through ca. 400 photographs, illustrations, ephemera, and original writings.</p> <p>Encompassing Garner's most iconic works, from the <b>Backward Car</b> to the <b>Half-Suit</b>, alongside never-before-seen photographs and ephemera, ACT LIKE YOU KNOW ME serves to introduce a highly-influential, under-recognized 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.</p> <p>Born in the suburbs of Chicago in 1942, the artist formerly know as Philip Garner has satirized American-style consumerism for decades, reifying the joys of everyday life and personal liberation along her way.</p> <p>With her prankish sense of humor and conceptual dedication to experimental engineering, she has altered materials of mass production - from Fordism through the pharmacopornographic - <b>subverting commercial binaries to reveal the transitory nature of material life and her own transpersonal identity.</b><br> <br></p>