30 Jun 2010

NSCAD Press: Micah Lexier: I'm Thinking of a Number

Canadian artist Micah Lexier has built an international reputation working in a variety of media including sculpture, photography, drawing, printmaking, and installation work. Particularly interested in expressions of time passing and age, Lexier makes work that is often numerical in its themes.

Over the past twenty-eight years, Lexier has produced a significant body of ephemeral material including, for instance, unique invitations that have taken the form of prize ribbons, printed balloons, custom-minted coins and individually numbered cards.

Micah Lexier: I'm Thinking of a Number is a survey of the artist's invitations, posters, bookworks, multiples, t-shirts, coin, catalogues, prints, boxed sets, magazine projects, and other works in multiple format produced between 1980 and 2010. Edited by Jan Peacock and designed by Andrew Di Rosa, the publication includes an introduction by Peacock and essays by AA Bronson (General Idea, Printed Matter) and Christina Ritchie (Director, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver).

Product details:
Hardcover, 300 pages, 4 bw and 196 colour, 7 x 9.5'
Plus an original multiple created by Lexier for this publication.
ISBN: 978-0919616-50-9
Price: $50.00

The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design was established in 1972 as a vehicle to publish books by and about leading contemporary artists. Between 1972 and 1987, twenty-six titles by such artists as Michael Snow, Steve Reich, Gerhard Richter and Yvonne Rainer were published. Relaunched in 2002, The Press has once again established the University as a source for the publishing of primary documents and scholarly works in the fields of contemporary art, craft and design.

Micah Lexier: I'm Thinking of a Number will be available through
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers as part of their Spring 2010 catalogue
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