Micah Lexier

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MICAH LEXIER’S RESPONSIBILITY CARDS. 1981. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

5.5 x 9.7 x 2.5cm, two part cardboard box with printed label content of 45, 5 x 9cm, 2pp cards and a title card. Each card has a short text on one side - sometimes prosaic, other times poetic and on the other an appropriated illustration from a vintage dictionary. The title card hints at the use - responsibility cards for use in times of decision making or problem solving. One of 100 such sets numbered on the title card. VG+. Scarce, very early multiple by the conceptual artist.

£225.00

UNTITLED. 1982.

Np. (Toronto): s.p. (Lexier), n.d. (1982) 8.5 x 12.5cm, 1pp. Small offset print with three appropriated images from a vintage illustrated dictionary linked by a series of arross that hints at some dynamic between the swimmer, the drowning man and a man climbing a ladder to an attic. Rare, very early artist's card. VG+.

£85.00

SIX YEARS OF WORK. 1985. ARTIST’S FIRST EVER SHOW.

Halifax: Anna Leonowens Gallery/Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 1985 38 x 15cm, 1pp black on white exhibition poster for Lexier's first ever show. Folded for mailing. VG+. Scarce.

£125.00

TWO TOGETHER. 1985.

Halifax: Eye Level Gallery, 1985 10 x 9,6cm, 6pp announcement for a very early solo show by Lexier. The sheet is printed in such a way that a gold and a pink triangle show through the paper (as does the gallery details) to create a six pointed star with the colour overlap making an orange hexagon in the middle. Rare.;

£85.00

MR. CALDWELL. 1987. BALLOON ANNOUNCEMENT OBJECT.

Toronto: YYZ Gallery, 1987 12 x 7cm approx., printed balloon - the announcement for a solo show by Lexier in the form of an object. One of the artist's first solo shows. Mr Caldwell was Lexier's grade 6 teacher. Never inflated and unperished although there is some drying out of the plastic - hence VG+. Rare.

£145.00

MOVING. AN INSTALLATION BY MICAH LEXIER. 1987.

Halifax: Centre for Art Tapes, 1987 18 x 10.2cm, (folded size), exhibition poster and hand out for an early happening by the Canadian conceptual artist. The sheet opens out to a 36 x 50cm map with locations overprinted in light blue. VG+.

£65.00

MR. CALDWELL. 1987.

London (Ontario): Forest City Gallery, 1987 13.7 x 10.3cm, 1pp announcement cards for a solo show by Lexier with a drawing of a man and a boy standing back to back above gallery details. One of the artist's first solo shows. Mr Caldwell was Lexier's grade 6 teacher. VG+.

£75.00

MR. CALDWELL. 1988. TWO POSTERS FOR TWO EXHIBITIONS THAT FIT TOGETHER.

Winnipeg/Calgary: Plug-In Inc/The New Gallery, 1988 Two part poster for two solo shows by Micah Lexier which has a single design over both which fits together with the same clip art image of a man and a younger boy walking in the rain. Lexier's earliest shows often referenced his 6th Grade teacher Mr Caldwell. VG+. A scarce item and an unusual format. Price is for both parts of the poster together.

£195.00

MR. CALDWELL. 1988.

Halifax: Eye Level Gallery, 1988 12.8 x 9.7cm, 1pp announcement on thick grey card for a solo show by Lexier with a drawing of a a boy holding a devil's mask above gallery details. One of the artist's first solo shows. Mr Caldwell was Lexier's grade 6 teacher. VG+.

£85.00