| Micah LexierMuseum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays
| "I should say a little about the retrospective of your editions and ephemera that we presented at Printed Matter. One aspect of your work that I love is how difficult it is to determine what is a work and what is not. Every poster or invitation card, and even the envelope in which a card is mailed, may be--and probably is--a work of art. For those of us who love books and printed matter, this makes your production particularly rich. So when we invited you to make a retrospective exhibition at Printed Matter, I knew the task would be difficult, albeit rewarding. Drawing on twenty-five years of multiples, invitations, coins, books, and other works in multiple formats, you constructed a brilliant mini-blockbuster, a lexicon of your methods, from anagram to xerography. But someday someone should undertake a complete and detailed retrospective of your multiples, because in your case, more is more: the richness of your work is revealed in the intricacies of the relationships that knit them into a single production."
AA Bronson, excerpted from Micah Lexier: Le Maxi Cheri in I'm Thinking of a Number. | MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGS Micah Lexier: I’m Thinking of a NumberTHE PRESS OF THE NOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNClth, 7 x 9 in. / 300 pgs / 196 color / 4 bw. | 8/30/2010 | Not available
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Edited and with Introduction by Jan Peacock. Foreword by Garry N. Kennedy. Text by Christina Ritchie, AA Bronson.Canadian artist Micah Lexier has built an international reputation working in a variety of media, often making work with numerical themes, such as 1995's "Self-portrait as a Lucite Cube Divided Proportionally a (Red) Volume Representing Life Lived and a (Clear) Volume Representing Life to Come, Based on Statistical Life Expectancy." Over the past three decades, he has also produced a significant body of multiple materials to be distributed to viewers, including prize ribbons, printed balloons, custom-minted coins and individually numbered cards. Micah Lexier: I'm Thinking of a Number is a survey of the artist's invitations, posters, book works, T-shirts, boxed sets and other multiples produced between 1980 and 2010. It includes a multiple created by the artist for this publication--a letterpress sheet of four stickers tipped in as the final work itemized by the monograph.
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The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and DesignBOOK FORMAT
Clth, 7 x 9 in. / 300 pgs / 196 color / 4 bw. PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 8/30/2010
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Catalog: FALL 2010 p. 102 PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780919616509 TRADE
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