Micah Lexier: True Three Ways
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Empty Gallery 833 Fisgard Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 1R9
Micah Lexier, True Three Ways (Words, Letters, Inches), " 2020
cut vinyl lettering
Micah Lexier is a Toronto-based artist whose activities include making, collecting and organizing. He has a deep interest in measurement, increment, found imagery and display structures. He has presented over 100 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 200 group exhibitions and has produced a dozen permanent public commissions. In 2015 Lexier was honoured with a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Lexier’s work is in numerous public and corporate collections including The British Museum (London, England), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Sydney, Australia), The Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). Micah Lexier is represented by Birch Contemporary, Toronto. micahlexier.com
Made for the window of Empty Gallery, True Three Ways is a riddle presented as an artwork. Three different but equally true ways to enumerate a three-line text are indicated by red numbers at the end of each line. As is the case with every riddle, once the code is broken, what once was cryptic is revealed to be simple.
True Three Ways is presented in partnership with the Victoria Arts Council and their city-wide project, STANZAS, which investigates the overlap of visual and literary arts.