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Sculptures of Drawings from Photographs of Objects


Micah Lexier (New York)


October 14 to November 13, 2004

Object. Photograph. Drawing. Sculpture.

Dazibao presents Micah Lexier’s Sculptures of Drawings from Photographs of Objects, an exhibition of wall-mounted, waterjet-cut aluminum sculptures informed by minimalist drawings and derived from a series of photographs of everyday objects. These conceptual works emphasize not only the gravity with which process defines the nature of the final work but also how it becomes itself the main focus.

Micah Lexier gained wide recognition with his Book Sculpture series that reflected on the significance of family, time and age. These sculptures are comprised of large piles of stacked book-like forms that create life-size photographic portraits of various individuals. Lexier is also well known for his minimalist sculptures focusing on his fascinations with numbers and mathematical logic. A notable example is the work All Numbers are Equal, a row of large aluminum numbers that have been carefully altered so that each number is equal in surface area and mass.

In this latest series, he builds upon procedures and materials employed in earlier pieces to formulate a new manifesto by which to create work. Each sculpture on view at Dazibao has already experienced several transmutations from one media into another. Sculptures of Drawings from Photographs of Objects, unlike other works by Lexier, reveals the intermediary phases that the artist took to generate the final sculptures. In addition to the final sculptures, Lexier will present the original eighteen source photographs along with a matching series of line drawings made from these photographic sources. These swiftly sketched drawings are the tracings of arbitrary lines and shapes found in the source photographs. This exhibition illuminates the artist’s preoccupation with shape, form and mark making by following him through a methodical process documenting the work’s imaginative metamorphoses.


Micah Lexier is a New York-based artist who has worked with numerous media including photography, sculpture (in its many forms), sound, performance, light, and drawing. Lexier has also worked with notable success in the public art milieu. He was born in Winnipeg where he completed a BFA at the University of Manitoba and in 1984 received his MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He has exhibited extensively, both on national and international levels for over twenty years. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto; Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary; and Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney and Berlin.




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