@misc.pippa and Pierre and Marie Curie Elementary School collaboration to discover in the new issue of 90antiope, series 66-80 out on June 2nd at @lafayetteanticipations
Webshop drop! New Pippa tees, bumper stickers & books now are available to buy via @now_instant online with proceeds going to the Pippa Garner Foundation, preserving her legacy and the cause of foolish art. Limited quantities available, links in bio.
Note - the bumper stickers are in collaboration with artist Megan Plunkett & the FOXY MORON tee, avail in unisex & baby tee sizing, made its debut on Monster Garage in 2004
Thank you to our models (cars and humans)
Are you a FOXY MORON? New Pippa tees — as worn on @officialmonstergarage c. 2004 — drop this April Fool’s Day @now_instant in LA. Limited edition! $48. Proceeds go to the Pippa Garner Foundation, preserving and expanding upon the legacy of art history’s finest fool, the conceptual artist, cat lover, late life lesbian (L³), gym body, Gemini, anti-war, car conflicted inventor Misc. Pippa Venus Garner
Shirts available as of 7:30pm on April 1, 2026 at @now_instant in Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
Foxy Morons unite to celebrate Misc. Pippa Venus Garner’s holiest of holidays, April Fool’s Day.
This April 1st, 2026, the newly-launched Pippa Garner Foundation will screen rare television appearances by the late artist, including her prankishly sincere guest spot on the reality TV show Monster Garage (2005) and hidden gems from her personal archive.
New Pippa merch will also be available for purchase in-store: a limited-edition replica of the “Foxy Moron” T-shirt she wore on Monster Garage, and the “unauthorized collaboration” bumper sticker, courtesy of artist Megan Plunkett and the Estate of Pippa Garner.
Proceeds from ticket and merch sales go to the Pippa Garner Foundation, preserving and expanding upon the legacy of art history’s finest fool, the conceptual artist, cat lover, late life lesbian (L³), gym body, Gemini, anti-war, inventor Pippa Garner.
For those unable to attend the screening, please join us at 9pm for the afterparty downstairs with a playlist by Matt Hilvers of SHIRTLIFTERS. The afterparty is not ticketed and free. NO RSVP necessary.
This screening and afterparty is hosted by Ron Athey, Fiona Alison Duncan, Hayden Dunham, Nichole Fitch, Matt Hilvers, Megan Plunkett, Christopher Schwartz, and P. Staff.
PIPPA PLAYS THE FOOL
Jet Boat Car
Monster Garage, 2004
Pippa Garner guest spots on Monster Garage, the Jesse James-led Discovery Network reality TV show where ordinary vehicles are transformed into “monster machines.” In this episode (season 2, episode 13, sometimes listed as 15), the Monster Garage team—plus Pippa—turned a 2004 Picklefork Ultra Boat into a racing machine, taking parts from land, air, and water. The episode first aired on Jan 26, 2004 and was later collected on the season 2 DVD release.
SURPRISE & DELIGHT
Selected hidden gem TV appearances from Pippa Garner’s VHS archives. With thanks to Alta Buden, Jeff Johnson, and John Silvis.
Full program notes and tickets available at now-instant.la
April 1, 2026. 8pm. Doors 7.30
939 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Another recent @cooperhewitt acquisition, Pippa Garner‘s THINKMAN (1984) is a rare-early-large-scale work by the American artist, industrial designer, illustrator, and writer known for her parodies of consumer products and social critique. THINKMAN came to the museum through the advocacy and scholarship of @fifidunks from the collection of Denise Domergue, a design legend, friend of the artist, and former neighbor in the storied Los Altos Apartments in Los Angeles. Denise acquired the work in 1987 from painter Nancy Reese, Garner’s ex-wife. Garner built THINKMAN in her Los Altos basement studio while living and working under her given name, Philip Garner. It’s constructed from components of another of her seminal works, PERMAFASHION SPORTS JACKET (984), a sculptural garment designed to evolve with the wearer as an expressive canvas. These works, also her HALF-SUIT (1981-82), belong to Garner’s early play with American codes of masculinity.
Images of THINKMAN with its peekaboo cabinet doors closed; magazine tearsheet as found in Garner’s archive; and Permafashion Sports Jacket in Garner’s Utopia... or Bust! Products for the Perfect World (Delilah Books, 1984)
Los Angeles | Secret Asian Man presents: Knock, knock! (Posthumorous) with work by Pippa Garner closes on March 14!
Gallery hours: Thursday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm
Pippa Garner, Philip Garner’s UTOPIA, 1983, graphite and ink on paper
📸: Paul Salveson
Los Angeles | Secret Asian Man presents Knock, knock! (Posthumorous) by Pippa Venus Garner, the first solo exhibition of the artist posthumously organized by the artist’s estate.
“Posthumorous” is a term Garner used to describe that which would survive her: her T&A (tits & ass implants), collaged shirts and g-strings, drawings, texts, bills, letters. Knock, knock! (Posthumorous) pays tribute to the abundance of her archive and to Garner’s legacies of humor, drive, and desire. Garner often spoke about erotics and sensuality as essential to her productive process—she sometimes described ideas as as undergoing a life cycle from gestation to birth. She got “knocked up” with ideas, countless as the cars in Los Angeles. A selection of Garner’s props and propositions are exhibited here, from a cocky doorknocker to “Pay per View” panties, a Sex-Organ, a Sex Change Booth, and Garner’s very own Newton’s Law: If you knock me up, I’ll knock you down.
The Estate of Pippa Garner is co-run by Christopher Schwartz, Sara O’Keeffe, and Fiona Alison Duncan.
📸: Paul Salveson
Pippa on the cover of the new Post Human catalog, forthcoming from @jeffreydeitchgallery and @monacellipress@phaidonpress
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Originally exhibited in 1992, Jeffrey Deitch’s groundbreaking exhibition Post Human brought together the work of thirty-six young artists interested in new frontiers of body and identity transformation. The prescient exhibition, which traveled to five international venues, introduced the art world to posthumanism - how the human body continues to merge with and diverge from technology. Both the show and it catalogue, which featured a unique visual essay and innovative design, helped set the agenda for art discourse in the 1990s.
More than thirty years later, Deitch revitalized Post Human at his Los Angeles gallery, bringing the themes of the original back to the present. The show’s 2024 iteration presented several key figures who participated in the original exhibition in dialogue with emerging contemporary artists whose boundary-pushing work explores how these themes, particularly recent forms of technology such as AI, have evolved over the course of the twenty-first century.
This timely publication revisits artworks from both iterations of the show. Readers will discover color photography of the featured works, along with Deitch’s iconic visual essay from the original catalogue and text contributions from contemporary philosopher Rosi Braidotti and critic @philippa.snow . Together, they form a printed testament to the show’s indelible impact and Deitch’s everlasting influence on the art world.
