Greer Lankton was an iconic trans artist known for creating lifelike dolls, resourcefully crafted out of soda bottles, panty hose, coat hangers, layers of paint and glass eyes obtained from a taxidermy shop. Her dolls were usually modeled after friends, icons and after herself. Greer's dolls would sometimes undergo changes, some dolls lost or gained weight, others had sex-changes and some were chopped into torsos or heads to be mounted on walls. "Greer's dolls reflect her unique, isolated vantage point on both sexes, and her exploration of gender, outcasts and norms of beauty meshed perfectly with art world trends."
The first two images above are from Greer's final installation, "It's about Me... Not You", at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. Greer passed away only a week after the opening of her installation.
Look at little Andy!
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