Pippa Garner

Pippa Garner (May 22, 1942 – December 30, 2024) was an American artist, illustrator, industrial designer, and writer known for making parody forms of consumer products and custom bicycles and automobiles.

[9] CAT tasked soldier and civilian artists with documenting the Vietnam War in the forms of sketches, illustrations, and paintings to be collected by the U.S. Army for (in their words) "the annals of military history".

For a year-end project, she submitted, Un(tit)led (Man with Kar-Mann), circa 1969–72, it was a sculpture of a classic 1960s-style silver and white sedan accentuated by a male body from the waist down in the car's back.

[14] In the 1980s, Pippa transitioned to a different gender as part of what she considered an "art project to create disorientation in my position in society, and sort of balk any possibility of ever falling into a stereotype again.

"[16] Garner has been noted as a predecessor to the Kardashian beauty industrial complex as well as Paul Preciado’s Testo Junkie, from navigating the psych medical system to purchasing surgeries abroad on her transition, which jump started with "black market hormones" in the 1980s.

The show, curated by Susan Subtle, featured Garner alongside Mildred Howard, Leo Sewell, Clayton Bailey, Claire Graham, Jan Yager, Remi Rubel, Mark Bulwinkle, and others.

For example the ironic "Hurl-A-Burger" machine is a type of catapult designed to "promote cultural exchange" by launching fast food over international border walls.

[26][27] Garner's work is in the collection of the Audrain Auto Museum of Rhode Island,[12] a selection of her photographs are held in the Contemporary Art Library archives.