Micah Lexier | Envelope Sculpture

Micah Lexier
Envelope Sculpture
Toronto, Canada: Nothing Else Press, 2012
15 x 20 x 0.2 cm
Edition of 50 signed and numbered

The 7th Nothing Else Press edition (and Lexier's second) is a cardstock envelope printed with a set of instructions for making a sculpture using the six letterpressed, glueless envelopes enclosed. Star and Hexagon versions are available, each in an edition of fifty copies.

The works are available for $30.00 CDN each, or both for $50.00, from www.nothingelsepress.com or at the London Art Book Fair in two weeks time.

Bio:

"Micah Lexier is a Toronto-based multimedia artist whose many-tiered practice includes sculpture, installation, photography and text-based work, as well as curation. Lexier graduated with an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984. His practice is consonant with the sensibility of that institution, revolving largely around conceptual acts of enumeration and demarcation.  A well-known photographic work of Lexier’s, David: Then and Now (2005), reworks his Portrait of David (1994), spanning 10 years, and showing the effects of aging on 75 men named David, each a different age from one to 75. Lexier has had more than 100 solo exhibitions, participated in some 200 group exhibitions and produced numerous permanent public commissions. Recent publications include Call Ampersand Response, a collaborative bookwork made with Michael Dumontier, which was co-published by Artexte and Nieves in 2012, and I’m Thinking of A Number, a 30-year survey of Lexier’s ephemera, published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2010."

London Book Art Fair Presentation: AA Bronson

AA Bronson, founder of the NY Art Book Fair (running simultaneous to London this year, for some reason), founder of Art Metropole (with the other two members of General Idea), and former director of Printed Matter will discuss his life and work as an artist. Joined in conversation by Sam Ashby, founder of the queer 'zine, Little Joe, the pair will look at the history of publishing as a "democratic distribution of contemporary art", queer zines, community, and collaboration.

Titled AA Bronson: In Conversation, the event will be held at the Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery on Friday September 26th from 7 to 8:30pm. Tickets range from £2.50 to £5.00 and booking in advance is essential.

Click here for details.

Ken Lum | Hashtag

Ken Lum's new lightbox for MKG127 was installed today, at 1445 Dundas Street West. Titled Hashtag, the work is "interested in the idea of a forbidden hashtag message," said Lum, "I wanted to invite the viewer to speculate what are some things that cannot be said."

Beginning four years ago with Kay Rosen's Hi, the gallery has consistently used its exterior signage as a venue for an artists' project. In addition to Lum and Rosen, signs have been commissioned by Josh Thorpe, Geoffrey Pugen and Roula Partheniou (Fluorescent Tube, 2013, below, top).

Micah Lexier | This Box, This Piece of Paper

Micah Lexier
This Box, This Piece of Paper
Toronto, Canada: Nothing Else Press, 2012
6" x 9" x 1/2"
Edition of 25 signed and numbered copies

Foil stamped cardboard box and folded poster, presenting a simple and elegant tautological loop. Available for $65 CDN from www.nothingelsepress.com or at the London Art Book Fair later this month.


Bio:

"Micah Lexier is a Toronto-based multimedia artist whose many-tiered practice includes sculpture, installation, photography and text-based work, as well as curation. Lexier graduated with an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984. His practice is consonant with the sensibility of that institution, revolving largely around conceptual acts of enumeration and demarcation.  A well-known photographic work of Lexier’s, David: Then and Now (2005), reworks his Portrait of David (1994), spanning 10 years, and showing the effects of aging on 75 men named David, each a different age from one to 75. Lexier has had more than 100 solo exhibitions, participated in some 200 group exhibitions and produced numerous permanent public commissions. Recent publications include Call Ampersand Response, a collaborative bookwork made with Michael Dumontier, which was co-published by Artexte and Nieves in 2012, and I’m Thinking of A Number, a 30-year survey of Lexier’s ephemera, published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2010."

Paul Butler | The Butler Edition

Paul Butler
The Butler Edition 
Toronto, Canada: Nothing Else Press, 2008
8.5" x 11"
Edition of 15 signed and numbered copies
$250.00 CAD

From a series of art magazine advertisements that the artist redacts, here leaving only his own name - the remaining words have been excised with a knife.

As with most of the Nothing Else Press publications, this will be available for sale at the London Art Book Fair later this month (along with a launch of five new titles) or now, from www.nothingelsepress.com. 


Bio:

Paul Butler (b. 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

Considered multi-disciplinary, Butler’s practice is focused around community, collaboration and artist-run activity. Butler’s projects include: The Collage Party – touring studio made open to the public; Directing The Other Gallery – a nomadic commercial gallery; leading Reverse Pedagogy - an experimental residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts; and serving as the inaugural artist-in-residence at The Art Gallery of Ontario. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; White Columns, New York City; Creative Growth Art Centre, Oakland; La Maison Rouge, Paris.  He has contributed writings to the book Decentre: Concerning Artist-run Culture and to Border Crossings and Canadian Art. Paul Butler is represented by Galerie Division Gallery in Montreal, QC and Toronto, ON, and Actual in Winnipeg, MB.

Bookclub at the London Art Book Fair

In addition to the Nothing Else Press Booth at the Whitechapel London Art Book Fair, we will also be taking part in a presentation about Bookclub. 

Bookclub consists of a group of Toronto artists, publishers, curators, gallerists and writers who collect artists' publications. The group meets a few times a year to present (mostly informally, but sometimes formally, such as presentations at the Power Plant in 2011 and 2013) artists' books, and occasionally, artists' multiples, records, ephemera, etc. For the past three years we have been commissioning artists to produce book bags: Michael Dumontier in 2012, Kay Rosen in 2013 and a forthcoming project by Claude Closky.

The members of Bookclub include Bill Clarke, myself, Wendy Gomoll, Michael Klein, Micah Lexier, Derek McCormack, Roula Partheniou, Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Derek Sullivan, and Paul Van Kooy. Bill, Roula and I will present on behalf of the group, many of whom are attending the simultaneous Art Book Fair in NYC.

For more information about the group, read the Toronto Standard piece by Jason McBride from a few years ago, here. Details about the event are forthcoming.

Alex Snukal | Me and Julio Down by Diter's Dung Hole

Alex Snukal
Me and Julio Down by Diter's Dung Hole 
Toronto, Canada: Nothing Else Press, 2009
10 x 15 cm
Edition of 25
$50.00 CDN

Snukal responds to a postcard edition originally created by Yoko Ono in 1971 and altered by Diter Rot the following year (see below posts). Making literal a quote from a Julio Cortázar novel that invokes a euphoric epiphany as equivocal to pushing a pebble through one's asshole, Snukal one-up's Diter with a third iteration.

Each card is hand altered by pushing a stone through its centre hole, and with the following silkscreened text:

"…look at the world through the eye of your asshole and you’ll see patterns pretty as can be, the pebble had to pass through the eye of your asshole…"

From Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar, 1966



Available at the London Art Fair later this month, or via nothingelsepress@rogers.com.