Conversation: Pippa Garner, Summer Guthery & Christina Linden

Please join us this Saturday, October 16th at 4pm at JOAN for a conversation between Pippa Garner, Summer Guthery & Christina Linden as they discuss Garner’s exhibition, Immaculate Misconceptions. 

Pippa Garner (b. 1942, Chicago suburbs) has lived and worked primarily in California for more than fifty years and is currently based in Long Beach. Recent solo exhibitions include STARS, Los Angeles (2021); Jeffrey Stark, New York (2021); O-Town House, Los Angeles (2019); Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles (2017, 2018); and Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2015). Her work and performances have been shown at institutions including Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1985); Whitney Museum of American Art, in collaboration with Ant Farm (1982); and Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (1980). Garner’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic, Interview, L’Officiel Art, Spike, and X-tra.

Summer Guthery is a curator and writer based in New York. She is the Founder and former Executive Director of JOAN. Prior to JOAN she was the Curator of Performance and Public Programming at LAXART which brought her to Los Angeles from New York City in 2013. In NYC, she was the Assistant Curator of Performa Biennial 2013 & 2011 and a research associate for the 2009 biennial. Her writing can be seen in Art Forum, Frieze, ArtReview, and Art in America.

Christina Linden is Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts, and Head of Academic Engagement at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. She served as Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Oakland Museum of California from 2013–2017. As a curator and educator she works to support social relevancy and create platforms for underrepresented voices. She is currently working on the book Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects in collaboration with artist Chris E. Vargas and curator David Evans Frantz. Linden holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and a BA in Art History from New York University.