Micah Lexier(@micahlexier) 인스타그램 상세 프로필 분석: 팔로워 86,967, 참여율 0.36%

I don’t think I’ve ever posted this work. It’s from 1998, made at a time when I was making work about my age. I was 37 and it illustrated the ratio of my life lived (black) to my live to come (white). Working with one rectangular volume, I then expressed this ratio three different ways. This is the only image I have of the work. “Self-portrait as three rectangular volumes each divided proportionally between a black area representing life lived and a white area representing life to come, based on statistical life expectancy” 1998 Formica covered wood boxes, each box is 11 x 22 x 33 inches In the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

To follow up yesterday’s post about my 2020 exhibition “A-H, A-D” at the @beletageartspace in Zürich, here are: (1-3) images of the multiple that took the form of a printed pad of paper, produced in an edition of 26, each made unique with the placement of die-cut hole. On each pad of paper a different letter of the alphabet is die-cut out. (4) the layout of the 16-page zine, and (5-8) some of my sketches sent to Jeanette to facilitate the installation.

In 2020, in the heart of the pandemic, I received an invitation from Jeannette Weiss to make a work for her space @beletageartspace in Zürich. It’s a very particular space, mostly a hallway and one room of a medical office, but I was very interested in the opportunity. My response was A-H, A-D, an installation of twelve metal letters – eight orange letters installed in the hallway and four yellow ones installed in the office space. The work was beautifully documented by @annikwetterphotography. I greatly appreciated the opportunity, I thoroughly enjoyed working with Jeannette and I was very pleased how it turned out, despite never having seen it with my own eyes. In addition to the exhibition we produced a sweet little zine and a multiple in the form of a printed pad of paper, produced in an edition of 26, each made unique with the placement of a die-cut hole. I will follow up with a post about the multiple tomorrow.

The front and back covers of my newest publication - I Am Born Micah Lexier, 2026 Published by Tonini Editore Edition of 100 64 pages, 115 X 165 mm 120 g Olin Cloud with 240 g Olin Cloud cover stock, self-end-papered Starting with number 1 at the top left of the front cover and ending with number 11,520 at the bottom right of the back cover, I Am Born is printed grey, except for the number 1960, the artist’s birth year, which is printed black. It is the only thing in the book treated differently. I Am Born is a follow-up to Autobiography, Lexier’s 2022 contribution to the Tonini Editore series. Both books share a size, a page count and a sensibility. Whereas Autobiography was empty, I Am Born is full. Whereas Autobiography’s subject was the book itself, I Am Born’s subject is the maker of the book. Each book takes a single element — in the case of Autobiography, the colophon; in the case of I Am Born, the artist’s birth year — and makes that its subject. I Am Born is an homage to several previous artists’ publications that utilized grids of numbers, specifically Stanly Brouwn’s 1 step-100000 steps from 1972, but also to many non-art sources, including the RAND Corporation’s 1955 publication A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates. Available from @toninieditore (Italy) and @twelvebooksdistribution (Japan)

Every time I finish a public artwork, I produce a little multiple to give out to the various people who were involved in the making of it. This is the sample of an acrylic template I’m working on to commemorate ”The Object of the Game”, my recently completed public commission at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex in Oakville, Ontario. The artwork consists of 48 white dots each representing a different piece of sports equipment, ranging from the smallest, which was a squash ball all the way up to the largest, which was a dart board. For the acrylic template, I reduced all the dots proportionally such that the largest object (dart board) is now the exact size of the smallest object, (squash ball). I was pretty excited when everything fit nicely.

Micah Lexier The Object of the Game, 2026  52 baked enamel panels   Commissioned to commemorate the opening of the Sixteen Mile Community Centre, Oakville.   Each white dot depicts the diameter of a different piece of sports equipment. See how many you can identify. Check your guesses against the answers, which are listed in order from smallest to largest.   When a piece of equipment has a shape that is irregular, like a football, the widest circular diameter of the object is represented. In the case of a sport that utilizes a range of sizes, the average size is represented.     1. Squash (ball) 2. Table Tennis (ball) 3. Golf (ball) 4. Paddleball (ball) 5. Snooker (ball) 6. Jai Alai (ball) 7. Pool (ball) 8. Racquetball (ball) 9. Lacrosse (ball) 10. Street Hockey (ball) 11. Tennis (ball) 12. Cricket (ball) 13. Floorball (ball) 14. Hurling (ball) 15. Field Hockey (ball) 16. Baseball (ball) 17. Pickleball (ball) 18. Hockey (puck) 19. Croquet (ball) 20. Fast Pitch Softball (ball) 21. Slow Pitch Softball (ball) 22. Spikeball (ball) 23. Open Bocce (ball) 24. Candlepin Bowling (ball) 25. Shot Put (shot) 26. Five Pin Bowling (ball) 27. Broomball (ball) 28. Shuffleboard (disc) 29. Football (ball) 30. Australian Rules Football (ball) 31. Loofball (ball) 32. Handball (ball) 33. Rhythmic Gymnastics (ball) 34. Rugby (ball) 35. Discus Throw (discus) 36. Korfball (ball) 37. Volleyball (ball) 38. Dodgeball (ball) 39. Tetherball (ball) 40. Ten Pin Bowling (ball) 41. Soccer (ball) 42. Netball (ball) 43. Basketball (ball) 44. Kickball (ball) 45. Ultimate Frisbee (disc) 46. Curling (stone) 47. Hooverball (medicine ball) 48. Darts (dartboard) Photos by @lfdocumentation. Thanks to @emdashem for her help on the project. @cchdean and his crew installed it and @toniadirisio was my liaison for the city. Thanks everyone for your help. It was a fun project to work on and I’m pleased with how it turned out.

Enzo Mari, "Relazione di Quattro" for Danese Milano, 1959. Four balls of different materials (and therefore different weights) in lucite. Boxed. Kind of perfect.

How great is this puzzle by @josequintanar_artist?!! That’s a rhetorical question.

In 2021 I had an exhibition entitled “Names of Shapes” at @birchcontemporary. It was a pretty understated show but one of my all time favourites. The invites were a series pads of paper (image 1) where you could tear off a sheet. There were four different designs/colours. The last two images are some source material - a couple books for teaching kids about geometry.

I never met a self-referential object I didn’t love.

Sheet of Stickers, 2024 - presented four ways.

To follow up yesterday’s post. In 2019, @pluginica restaged Buren’s Apartment Number project as part of their Stages exhibition. From Plug In’s website: “For STAGES, Buren will remount Limited Time Only! for the first time since its inception in 1981. This site-specific intervention was initially produced in Toronto in a St. James Town apartment block for which Buren offered to wallpaper apartments within the building with his signature stripes. Residents of the apartment block could have an artwork by Buren for the minimal cost: $50 for one wall; $125 for an entire room. Plug In ICA with Buren, restages this work in Winnipeg at Eleven Evergreen Place, offering its residents an opportunity to have a work by Buren installed in their homes for a Limited Time Only!. The title emulates language used in advertising, but references the tenuous and precarious nature of the renter who will own an artwork by Buren only as long as they continue to stay a renter in their current apartment. Like the initial ‘offer’ the first tenant of the selected building to respond will receive the work for free, and the others for a special price. We have used standard inflation charts to adjust the original prices to reflect today: $150 for a single wall; $325 for an entire room.” Thank you @tombloor_ for letting me know about this representation.