Stars exhibits Pippa Garner: Act Like You Know Me September 24-November 13 at Kunstverein München, Germany.

Pippa Garner: Act Like You Know Me September 24-November 13 Kunstverein München Pippa Garner Un(tit)led (HE2SHE License Plate), 1995. Courtesy the artist and STARS, Los Angeles.   Act Like You Know Me is the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Pippa Garner in Europe which offers a necessarily fragmentary insight into an incredibly extensive body of work spanning more than 50 years. Born in a Chicago suburb in 1942, the artist and author formerly known as Philip Garner is pushing back against systems of consumerism, marketing, and waste and has created a dense body of work including drawing, performance, sculpture, video, and installation. Her uncompromising approach to life and practice has allowed her to interact with the worlds of illustration, editorial, television, and art without ever quite becoming beholden to them. After serving as a conscripted U.S. Army Combat Artist in the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Garner resumed her studies in the highly regarded Transportation Design department at ArtCenter, California, with plans to become a car stylist. Her circle during the ’70s and ’80s included Ed Ruscha, Chris Burden, and the radical art and design collective Ant Farm. The painter Nancy Reese—at once a creative collaborator and romantic partner—further introduced Garner to contemporary art institutions and communities, as well as to the idea that she might identify as an artist herself. Then known and identifying as Philip, Garner gained attention for her performance, design, and video work at galleries and museums, as well as the illustrations and editorials she placed in books and magazines, which segued into appearances on talk shows. In the mid 1980s, Garner began a decade-long feminization process that included hormone replacement therapy and eventually sex reassignment surgery. As an extension of her practice altering materials of mass production, Garner’s approach to gender transition demonstrated her experimental attitude, transpersonal identity, and way of queering everyday objects. When Garner first began hormone therapy there was no widespread concept of the in-betweens of gender. As the author and co-curator of the exhibition at Kunstverein München, Fiona Alison Duncan, says: “Her work is about gender expansiveness and gender as a commodity, you can customize your body, inside and out, so long as you can afford to do so.” Act Like You Know Me is a survey of Garner’s wild, extensive photographs that both have the status of autonomous works as well as documentation of her practice. Anti-materialist, most of her art objects were repurposed, recycled, or given away and lost, leaving these photographs as the central remaining elements of the work. The exhibition will travel to Kunsthalle Zürich where it will be on view from February through May 2023.   STARS  3116 N El Centro Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90028

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Residency Opportunity for Artists!

NEW Residency Opportunity

Beisinghoff Printmaking 

Residency in Germany

Postmark Deadline April 1

Notification Date May 1

 

Work in a beautiful printmaking studio in Diemelstadt-Rhoden for up to four weeks. Two artists will be awarded this residency located at Atelierhaus Beisinghoff, less than an hour away from Kassel, Germany. The residency will take place during dOCUMENTA 13 which takes place in Kassel June 9th - Sept 16th, 2012.  Images, thoughts and words from different viewpoints come together when artists from different continents converge to use the facilities at Atelierhouse.

  

Atelierhaus Beisinghoff offers studio space and access to:

Letter Press Studio with Korrex flatbed press and Garamond, Helvetica,  Futura,  and some Bodoni Antiqua and Wallau typefaces

Intaglio printing studio with Plankenhorn etching press for papersize up to 132 x 180 cm

Accomodation is free of charge and provides a shared apartment with a shared bath, library, kitchen, living room, garden, and a sewing and ironing room, Travel costs, food, paper and special colours are paid by the artist in residence. Artists prepare lunch together. Local press is invited for a presentation during the residency.

 

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