Micah Lexier(@micahlexier) 인스타그램 상세 프로필 분석: 팔로워 83,472, 참여율 0.27%

In 1997 I installed my public commission “The Hall of Names” at Exhibition Place in Toronto. The artwork consists of 1000 names selected at random from the thousands that were submitted by the public in response to my call for participation. Each selected name was typeset really large (some as big as 10 feet) and laser-cut out of stainless steel. The site is a convention centre but is often rented out as a movie set, subbing as an airport. Here are a couple screen grabs from movies sent to me by my friend @dave.dyment where you can see my artwork in the background. Image 3 is from “The Man From Toronto” and image 4 is from “Titans”.

Moritz Küng has written a two-part column for the Belgian art newspaper De Witte Raaf, featuring artist’s books in which only numbers and figures determine the content or concept. In the first part, which was just published, Küng discusses my book 1-100 published by @backbonebooks in 2024, Heimo Zobernig’s Farben from 1987, Mladen Stilinović’s Oduzimanje Nula from 2006, Claude Closky’s The First Thousand Numbers Classified in Alphabetical Order from 1989, and Son Ni, ISBN 978-986-97269-4-8 from 2021. A second part, on the same topic “Numbers and Figures”, will be published at the end of November featuring books by Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans Eijkelboom, Jean-Marie Krauth, Alberto Vieceli and José Quintanar. The first part can be read online at dewitteraaf.be

Some double-page spreads from “Invitation Drawings”, a zine by Noelle Rößler (5yo at the time) based on a series of drawings she made on top of the exhibition invitations for my show at @einbuch.haus last fall. Noelle’s mom runs the gallery so Noelle was around often and one day started to draw on the invites. They’re wonderful drawings so we made a little zine with the good people at @nievesbooks. It turned out rather nicely. Second last image shows N doing the actual drawings. Last image is N at her launch at this years @missreadberlin

Some images from “Lots Of Fun To Make Magic” by Gerard Majax, 1973

This is a really special pair of artworks made by @rpartheniou and @dave.dyment for their current exhibition at @mkg127. The first artwork is titled “I, Tell” referencing William Tell who was notorious for shooting an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow. Hence the extra dot appears on top of the “i” which can be read as a person’s head and body. The second artwork is titled “I, Newton” as in Isaac Newton, who, legend has it, formulated his theory of gravity after watching an apple fall from a tree. Hence the extra dot appears on the ground beside the “i”. And on top of that genius, Dave & Roula based the height of the i’s on the heights of the two men. I’m beyond impressed.

Here are some photos taken by Guy L’heureux of Solos et Duos, a two person exhibition with @stephanelarue_ at @galeriebellemarelambert. Exhibition continues till October 11th. Stephane’s works are the rectangular ones, mine are everything else.

I thought I’d share a bit of my working process. @parksidepuzzles asked me to make a follow-up puzzle to the one we made back in 2020. The task we set ourselves was to make a puzzle that was a sister to the first one, had roughly the same number of elements but was distinct from the first. I kept to my palate of found puzzles, teaching tools and games and spent the day moving things in and out. The first image is a detail of a box of letters where I have hidden my name. The second image is the layout for the new puzzle as it stands right now, but as you scroll through images you are going back in time and can see all the tiny, and not so tiny, changes to the layout till the 2nd last image, which was my first layout of the day. It’s a bit of a ‘spot the difference’ game trying to figure out what changed each version, but trust me, there is something that moved or swapped in or out in each different image. The very last image is of the 2020 puzzle so that you can see the puzzle we are in dialogue with. The puzzle will be released next spring.

All Across Canada was made in 1982 and consisted of sending out 300 posters across Canada asking people to put the poster up for one week. The project was made for @pluginica in Winnnipeg and was my first exhibition. The image on the top half of the poster was a photo by @michael_s_klein who was a fellow student at the University of Manitoba. Michael now runs @mkg127 and I’m the next show at the gallery. Michael and I have been friends since 1978. One story that I remember about the All Across Canada project is that one of the people who received the unsolicited poster contacted the RCMP, who took the call seriously enough to show up at my parents’ door. I was not home but my mom was and she let them in, explained the project to them and assured them that it was art and was not some radical political gesture (not that there’s anything wrong with that.) I think I might have been reading “Marx for Beginners” or something like that, which my mom had to kick under the bed when she showed them my room. (I might have made up that story about the book, but there was something I was reading at the time that she had to hide from them.) The reason why I dug up this material is that I was contacted by Jon Tupper, who was the director at Plug In at the time, as he is writing about his time at the gallery and was asking if I had any documentation. Jon was a very early supporter of my work and invited me to do a big, career-altering project at The Winnipeg Art Gallery @wag_ca a few years later, which was the A Portrait of David Project, which I will post about soon.

There is so much to love about this found paper tag. It has cut corners, two die-cut holes, one with paper reinforcement, and a perforation. The other side is rather busy but when you turn it over, the blank side highlights all these subtle details.

A sketch for something I was working on. I didn’t end up using it. I still sketch with photocopies and pen since I have zero digital design skills.

Four coin stacks - magic trick. The coins are often attached and hollow.

Found eBay photo. I have a second account devoted just to such photos. @some_ebay_photos