Micah Lexier

Visit Micah Lexier's new tumblr site!

Also, two new Micah Lexier editions available from Nothing Else Press.

call ampersand response

Some photos of our exhibition at Artexte in Montreal. The show featured all the source material from our book Call Ampersand Response, published by Artexte and Nieves.

Micah Lexier and I will be at this year's New York Art Book Fair (which starts tomorrow). On Friday at 2PM, we'll be sitting with our book at the Nieves table (table Z02) .  Looking forward!

photos by Paul Litherland, courtesy of Artexte Information Centre.

Call Ampersand Response

Call Ampersand Response by Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier, published by Artexte (Montreal) and Nieves (Zurich), 2012

Just got an advance copy of this book I made with Micah Lexier.  It should be available from Artexte and Nieves in a couple weeks. 

Envoi esperluette Réponse

exhibition/book launch
Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier: Call Ampersand Response
Artexte, Montreal
June 7 - September 8, 2012

Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made of images exchanged via email. Over a period of several months, Dumontier and Lexier sustained an image-based correspondence by sending each other scans of book covers, found objects, drawings and illustrations belonging to each artist's respective collection. The project is based on the idea that their collections speak of their shared artistic affinities while informing their practices. Two rules dictated their conduct: each image was to function as a "call" seeking a "response" from the other artist, and the dialogue was to end when an image recalling the project's opening image emerged, thereby constituting a narrative loop. Their conversation gave rise to a bookwork co-edited by Nieves (Zurich) and Artexte. In Artexte's new gallery space, the project is shown as an installation in which shared themes and motifs are seen to play out over time, alongside objects selected from the source material.

Call Ampersand Response
196 pp. (including covers), 196 b&w illus.,
25.5 x 19.5 cm. Co-published by
Nieves and Artexte.
ISBN 978-3-905999-08-2

a moon or a button

My exhibition A Moon or a Button, along with its companion show Like Minded, both curated by Micah Lexier, ends tomorrow at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg.
My show The Middle of the Air continues until April 14th at MKG127, Toronto.

hand drawing

Hand Drawing by Micah Lexier, published by Paul + Wendy Projects
A letterpress print with a unique pencil drawing added by the artist.

Varied edition of 100.

Please visit P+W Projects for more information.

Artists' Books and Multiples

Visit Dave Dyment's fantastic new blog Artists' Books and Multiples
'Dedicated to Artists’ books, multiples, recordings, postcards, magazines and ephemera, this site will feature reviews of recent titles, features on artists and publishers, random listings of older works, the occasional longer essay or interview, straight-forward pictorials, links to recent news, etc. etc., in an attempt to create an aggregate of information on editioned artworks.'

Dave Dyment /Nothing Else Press

M.L.

Micah Lexier's exhibition Things Exist opens today at Birch Libralato, Toronto. Wish I could be there. "Things exist, we do not have to create them, we only have to grasp their relations." -Stéphane Mallarmé

(Micah and I have been working on a book together, to be published early next year. I hope to post more about that soon.)

Post Card.

(a gift from MML. Thanks!)

Home Library

Around The World in 2,000 Pictures, Doubleday, 1954 (1959) with homemade cardpocket and card ( "Due--Nov., Nov., Nov., Nov.,..." ) Thanks to MML for finding this and letting me take it home.

A, B, C,---D

a to b at mkg127

more images and credits here

previously

A to B

one and another (with folded corner), acrylic and hardboard on hardboard, each panel is 6X8inches. (My contribution to the exhibition A to B)

A to B

1. An exhibition of artworks and objects having to do with order, sequence and consecutiveness, including pairs, successive things, lists, instructions, corrections and rules.

2. The exhibition will consist of existing artworks, new works made specifically for the exhibition, contemporary and archival photographs, books, items cut from newspapers, records, before and after photographs, commercial samples, historical conceptual art documents, games, and a variety of found items.

3. The exhibition will be presented primarily in a series of vitrines. Additionally, one site-specific work will be installed on the interior walls of the gallery, while another will be installed on the outside of the gallery, with vinyl lettering provided by The Lettering Shop.

4. The exhibition includes work by Micah Adams, Abbas Akhavan, Stephen Andrews, Cecilia Berkovic, Mike Billington, Michael Buckland, Paul Butler, Neil Campbell, Claude Closky, Greg Curnoe, Simon Cutts, Dean Drever, Michael Dumontier, Dave Dyment, Gerald Ferguson, Ingo Gerken, Charles Goldman, Dave Heath, Joel Herman, Spring Hurlbut, Tom Koken, Michael Maranda, Kelly Mark, John Marriott, Tom Molloy, Tania Mouraud, Ken Nicol, Roman Opalka, Ryan Park, Roula Partheniou, Kay Rosen, Alison Rossiter, Jon Sasaki, Jeannie Thib, Josh Thorpe, Joy Walker, Lawrence Weiner and Laurel Woodcock.

5. The exhibition takes place at MKG127, 127 Ossington Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 2Z6, (647) 435-7682. Open Wednesday to Saturday 12 to 6 pm or by appointment. www.mkg127.com

6. The exhibition opens Saturday, July 3rd (with a reception from 1:23 to 4:56 pm) and continues until July 31, 2010.

7. The exhibition was organized for MKG127 by Micah Lexier.

Kay Rosen's Hi 1997/2010 (MKG127)