ONE OF THESE THINGS. 2003.
Toronto: Robert Birch Gallery, 2003 12.5 x 18cm, 1pp announcement card with gallery details over an abstract design. VG+.
Toronto: Robert Birch Gallery, 2003 12.5 x 18cm, 1pp announcement card with gallery details over an abstract design. VG+.
Sydney: Gitte Weiss Gallery Sydney, 2004 10.5 x 15m, 2pp announcement card with a drawing by Lexier reproduced on the front, verso gallery details. VG+.
North Hobart: CAST, 2004 10 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show with works by Micah Lexier Ben Booth, Louisas Bufardeci, Marco Fusinato, Elvis Richardson and John Vella. One work by Lexier reproduced on the front (Gitte Weise) Gallery Hours from 2001. VG+.
Windsor: Art Gallery of Windsor, 2002 10.2 x 18cm, 2pp announcement card for a travelling show by various artists taken from the collection of the MOCCA - the front of the card shows one of Lexier's Book Portraits. Verso gallery details. VG+.
Montreal: Dazibao, 2004 10 x 21cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a solo show by Lexier. Verso gallery details. VG+.
Berlin: Gitte Weise Gallerie, 1991 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with details of the exhibition verso with one small image of a work and on the front a detail of a conceptual work. VG+.
Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery, 2005 Three 21.7 x 10.2cm, 2pp announcement cards for three consecutive vitrine displays with objects from Lexier's own collection in the gallery. Each of printed aspect of the cards is the same but each has a different check box for the particular vitrine - "blank", "circle to square" and "organizing principle". Lexier has intervened in each (one by doing nothing) - the blank box is left unchecked in the first, there is a punched hole in the "circle to square" card and the final card "organizing principle" has been hand ticked by the artist. All three are in VG+ condition. Price is for all three cards as a group.
Winnipeg: Plug In ICA/Plug In Editions, 2006 24 x 16cm. 184pp plus boards. Artist's book with 80 b/w images of the 75 "Davids" who were first photographed in 1996 and exhibited in a museum setting life sized. Ten years later the same 75 people were re-photogrpaherd (where possible as some could not be found or had died) and the photographs of the earlier and later people again displayed. Additionally there are essays by Steven Matijcio and Alison Gillmor and photo-essays by Shelia Spence and Doug Lewis as well as some additional works shown in colours. Designed by Susan Chafe with Micah Lexier. VG+. This copy of the book is signed "ML" and dated 2007 on the first blank page.
Berlin:Gitte Weise Galerie, 2006 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card printed with a typographic design by Lexier on the front (two asterixes) and verso gallery details. There were three different announcement cards all with similar by different images issued - this is one of the three. VG+.
Berlin:Gitte Weise Galerie, 2006 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card printed with a typographic design by Lexier on the front (two asterixes) and verso gallery details. There were three different announcement cards all with similar by different images issued - this is one of the three. VG+.
Berlin:Gitte Weise Galerie, 2006 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card printed with a typographic design by Lexier on the front (two asterixes) and verso gallery details. There were three different announcement cards all with similar by different images issued - this is one of the three. VG+.
Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2006 10.5 x 15cm, black on white printed envelope with the details of Lexier's exhibition content of a 25 x 22cm, green on white card which has been cut into 8 different sections to create a jigsaw. The text on the card are the instructions for making the card. Object multiple as announcement. VG+. Scarce.
NYC: Printed Matter, 2007 13.5 x 18.5cm, blue on white envelope with the details of Lexier's exhibition of 25 years of multiples, invitations, coins, books and other works. Lexier's fondness for stationery led him to create this announcement object in this form for the show. VG+.
Sackville: Owens Art Gallery, 2001 11.8 x 17.2cm, printed white envelope content of a 15.2 x 10cm, 36pp plus pictorial card covers artist's book. Stapled. The documentation of the installation of the title work where each day in a month is associated with a different phrase and the text displayed on the public "calendar" near the front door of the gallery. Lexier has a particular phrase associated with each date number so "A bird in the hand" is always displayed on the first of the month, "Oops I did it again" (Brittney Spears) on the 16th and "Proven beyond a reasonable doubt" (Lawrence Weiner on the 17th. Each different day is reproduced one per page and there is a text by Lexier and another by Gerney Kelly at the back of the book. VG+.
Toronto: Birch Librato, n.d. (2007) 15.2 x 10.2cm, 116pp plus card covers. Artists' book with a number of works by Lexier and chosen by himself for the book reproduced in full colour. VG+.
n.p. (Toronto): s.p. (Micah), 2007 Four different printed 11 x 14.5cm, white envelopes each content of a single blue on white letterpress card. Each envelope has a different conceit - the first notes that Mary Lum and Micah Lexier have the same initials; the second that Mary Lum and Micah Lexier have the same number of letters (if their middle names are included); the third that Mary Lum and Micah Lexier both share the letter M and fourth Counts up then counts down with the phrase "MARY LUM AM I AM THE ONLY MICAH LEXIER". Each is in an edition of only 100 and is rather beautiful in its minimalism. The work is a collaboration between the two artists. VG+.
Berlin:Gitte Weise Galerie, 2007 Three different 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement cards each printed with a drawn design by Lexier on the front (two arrows) and verso gallery details. The cards fit together to make a triptych design by the artist. VG+.
Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan, 2007 14.5 x 19.3cm, printed envelope (the announcement for the show) content of two 37 x 28cm, 1pp sheets - one a typographic poster and the other a text explaining the two exhibition - Me - where the works are all related to Lexier's age and - Them - a curated show of works by other artists chosen by Lexier. Together this was the announcement/poster/catalogue for the exhibitions. VG+.
Sackville: Marshview Middle School/Owens Art Gallery, 2008 20.3 x 16.4cm, 44pp plus wrappers. Artist's book done in co-ordination with the children of the Marshview School where all of the children's names were signed by another child. Three colour variations of paper used internally - this one is yellow. VG+.
Toronto: Paul + Wendy Projects 2008 20 x 15.3cm, 32pp self-cover. Artist's book in the form of a zine where each page is a different statement by the artist about writing - and his facsimile holograph reproduced black on blue. One 300 hand numbered examples. JOINT AS ISSUED: 23 x 17.5cm, blue on white printed cardboard envelope.
Vancouver: Artspeak, 2008 26 x 20cm, 32pp plus card covers. Artist's book in the form of a colouring-in book with drawings of famous (and less famous) conceptual artworks by various artists including Walter de Maria, Braco Dimitrijevic, Francois Morellet, Kay Rosen and others which Lexier identifies of his favourite artworks. This example is one of a variant with yellow endpapers. The book was distributed to students in Vancouver schools. VG+.