Pippa Garner: $ELL YOUR $ELF

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Across over 300 pages, the book dwells on equally kinky and cheeky conceptualizations of the corporeal self as a commodity, with the artist's own diaries endearing us to her decades-long pursuit of self-satisfaction-gender as a source of ennui and later, of triumph. -- Yume Murphy * The Whitney Review of New Writing * Garner's playful tenacity and utopian contraptions gesture toward another politic-an eternal tinkering. -- Grace Byron * Bookforum * From billboards to algorithms to cars that drive themselves. Garner's show seemingly compels us to take the wheel and explore our latent desires as opposed to those that are right in front of us. -- Meyme Nakash * Office * The artist A.K. Burns, who resides in the Hudson Valley, described the exhibition as a "must-see" for anyone interested in the octogenarian's work. -- Zachary Small * The New York Times: Arts * Re-engineering everyday consumerism to reveal sinister truths about excess consumption, Garner deconstructs the foundational pillars of gender and sexuality through the products and mechanisms of Capitalism. -- Orlando Estrada * Elephant * Few things have escaped her restless, imaginative tinkering, from automobiles to her own body. -- Evan Moffitt * T Magazine * Turns expressions of consumerist exhaustion into something wonderful, embracing the perversion and pleasure of mass production. -- Erin Ikeuchi * Document Journal * One could also argue that there?s never not a good time for a statement from Garner, who, over the course of a five-decade practice, has satirized, subverted, and otherwise sent up the ever-present scourge of consumerism. -- Min Chen * Artnet *