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 green endpapers. The book was distributed to students in Vancouver schools. VG+.
Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery, 2008 16.5 x 24cm, printed envelope content of a 58 x 44cm, 1pp printed sheet listing the 149 items that Lexier decided to exhibit from the Walter Phillips archive as the basis for his exhibition. Walter Phillips was an influential printer and teacher in Alberta, Canada. Artist as curator, curator as artist, annnouncement as catalogue/catalogue as announcement. Folded as issued. 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 grey. 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 blue. VG+.
Micah Lexier N.p.: Paul & Wendy Projects, 2009 22 x 16cm, unpaginated. Offset printed pages bound into boards. Each book in the series of only 25 had a different colour combination of cloth cover and foil stamping. The book contains 8 off-set printed images of clocks within 96 pages and letterpress printed endpapers. Two black ribbons are bound within. Unique thus.
Toronto: Birch Labralato, 2009 21 x 15cm, 16pp plus card covers. Printed black on pink internally, this is an exhibition catalogue with two essays by Dave Dyment and Earl Miller. Seven small illustrations of works on the inside back cover by Lexier in b/w. VG+.
N.p. (Toronto): S.p. (Lexier and Sullivan), 2009 6.4 x 9.5cm, 4pp printed outer folder (here with a horizontal line as title) and inside a 6 x 9cm, 12pp accordion folded sheet of card with four v-shaped notches die cut out at the folds. This is very similar to a second multiple where the sheets are separated - apparently Sullivan has an interest in folded paper elements while Lexier has an interest in individual elements making up a whole, hence one might regard these two related editions as one being influenced by Lexier and the other by Sullivan. This is one of 100 copies made - each in an original small transparent plastic folder. VG+.
N.p. (Toronto): S.p. (Lexier and Sullivan), 2009 6.4 x 9.5cm, 4pp printed outer folder (here with a vertical line as title) and inside a 6 x 9cm, 12pp accordion folded sheet of card with four v-shaped notches die cut out at the folds. This is very similar to a second multiple where the sheets are separated - apparently Sullivan has an interest in folded paper elements while Lexier has an interest in individual elements making up a whole, hence one might regard these two related editions as one being influenced by Lexier and the other by Sullivan. This is one of 100 copies made - each in an original small transparent plastic folder. VG+.
Toronto: BMO Project Room, 2010 60 x 100cm, 2pp. A limited edition poster for the title installation comprising 20,000 custom-minted coins directly mounted onto the walls of the exhibition space. Each coin had a letter and the installation spells out a story that supposedly is told by one of the coins on the wall. The poster reproduces the entire wall of letters and explains the contest where a hidden clue allows the reader to work out which of the coins is the "narrator". Folded as issued. A print multiple of sorts. VG+.
Toronto: BMO Project Room, 2010 15 x 21cm, 4pp. Announcement card for the title installation comprising 20,000 custom-minted coins directly mounted onto the walls of the exhibition space. Each coin has a letter and the installation spells out a story that supposedly is told by one of the coins on the wall. In the text there is a clue as to the location of the narrator - and a prize was given to the first 100 people to sold the puzzle. Colour image of the coins on front, gallery details on the back, internally blank. VG+.
Toronto: BMO Project Room, 2010 15 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card for the title installation comprising 20,000 custom-minted coins directly mounted onto the walls of the exhibition space. Each coin has a letter and the installation spells out a story that supposedly is told by one of the coins on the wall. In the text there is a clue as to the location of the narrator - and a prize was given to the first 100 people to sold the puzzle. Colour image of the installation on front, verso gallery details. VG+.
Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2010 18 x 25cm, 300pp plus boards. Artist's book which lists many of the artist's "invitations, books, catalogues, packaged prints, objects in multiple, t-shirts, projects in and for publications, coins, and other printed matter, 1980 to 2010". Edited by Jan Peacock with essays by AA Bronson, Garry Neill Kennedy, Jan Peacock, and Christina Ritchie, with an original multiple created by Lexier for the publication. JOINT: Bound in - a sheet of adhesive stickers with 6 circular diecut labels which have the text" "THIS WAS MADE JUST FOR THIS" printed black on blue.
Halifax: Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, 2011 21.5 x 23cm, 176pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue and artists' book displaying 182 images of works by Lexier and Mark photographed by Steve Farmer. VG+.
Ontario: Rodman Hall Arts Centre, 2012 30.5 x 23cm, unpaginated. Card covers. Artist book to accompany the year long installation where the artist displayed 4 items from his personal collection of objects in the space but every Monday removed one item and replaced it with another thing unannounced. At the end of the year, over 4 weeks Lexier returned the exhibited items to the original collection - hence creating a loop. The book has b/w images of the 52 objects all full page and minimal text. VG+.
Burnaby: Burnaby Art Gallery, 2012 21.5 x 15.5cm, unpaginated (c. 300pp) plus original wrappers. Artist's book reproducing mostly minimalist and conceptual drawings.
Montreal,Nieves,Zurich: Artexte/Nieves, 2012 19.5 x 25.5cm, 196pp plus card covers. Artist's book with over 190 b/w images each chosen in turn by the two artists in a call and response - the first image (chosen by Dumontier) being reflected in a second which often has similarities. This is the first of two similar books with the same title but 7 years apart. VG+.
N.p. (Toronto): Nothing Else Press, 1995 15 x 20 x 0.2cm cardstock envelope printed with a set of instructions for making a sculpture using six letterpressed, glueless envelopes enclosed (each 11.5 x 16cm). The shape to be made by the envelopes is to be a hexagon shape. an artist's proof aside from an edition of 50 copies. Signed and dated and denoted "AP2". Fine.
North Adams: Mass MOCA, 2012 3.cm dia. metal coin in self-sealing plastic bag with 7.2 x 5cm printed card. An object multiple issued at the time of Lexier's installation utilising coins with a diagram of a corner (with added coin). This is signed and dated in pencil on the back of the card. Limitation not known.
Saskatchewan: Neutral Ground, 2013 21.5 x 30.5cm, b/w printed envelope with metal closer content of a 21 x 30cm thick printed card with recessed hole and an especially minted coin with a design by Lexier. Released as an object multiple at the time of an actual exhibition where a coin was placed in the corner of the gallery room alongside a second room where a variety of round objects (or objects with circular holes) could be found. The coin in this edition has a etched drawing by Lexier that represents a corner of a room and a coin placed therein. Three 30 x 21cm, b/w text sheets explaining the conceptual art work. This is one of only50 signed and numbered examples along with a small number of signed and indicated "artist's proofs" of which this is nr 9. VG+.
Toronto: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, 2013 26.3 x 19.5cm, 224pp plus card covers. Artist book displaying 221 artworks and objects made by 101 different artists, duos and collectives selected and arranged by Lexier - 193 of which are reproducued in b/w. The text is also by Micah Lexier and Gaëtane Verna, and the book designed by Jeff Khonsary and Micah Lexier. An early example of artist as curator as artwork. VG+>
Toronto: Plant Power, 2014 26.5 x 19.3cm, unpaginated (164pp) plus original wrappers. Artist's book with texts and images after works by Lexier.
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