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Pippa Garner (born 1942), formerly known as Philip Garner, is an artist and author known for making parody forms of consumer products as well as custom bicycles and automobiles. Notable publications written by Garner include The Better Living Catalog and Utopia—or Bust! Products for the Perfect World.
Biography
Early life
Garner began her career in the 1970s in Los Angeles as a performance artist. A Chevrolet modified by Pippa was featured in Esquire Magazine in 1975 and noticed by the San Francisco art collective Ant Farm, and she subsequently began a collaboration with Chip Lord. In the 1980s, Pippa began her transition 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." As Philip Garner, she appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, the Merv Griffin Show and other talk shows showcasing her satirical consumer product "inventions", and her art has appeared in Car & Driver, Rolling Stone, Arts & Architecture and Vogue, among other publications.
Published works
Better Living Catalog
Utopia—or Bust! Products for the Perfect World
Garner's Gizmos & Gadgets
Bibliography
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Notes/Further reading
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Garner, Philip. Philip Garner's Better Living Catalog. New York, NY: Delilah, 1982. Print.
Garner, Philip. Utopia-- or Bust!: Products for the Perfect World. New York: Delilah Communications, 1984. Print.
Bush, Bill. "Paradise Notwithstanding: This Artweek.LA (December 5-11, 2011)." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2015.
Ludwig, Tiffany, and Renee Piechocki. "Misc. Pippa Garner." Trappings: Stories of Women, Power and Clothing. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2007. 71-78. Print.
