Micah Lexier

Canadian (1960)

Micah Lexier is a Canadian artist.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Micah Lexier's estimated art value is C$5,000 (*)

Micah Lexier's work could be available for sale through Art Galleries or at public auction with prices in the range of C$250 - C$10,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for a silkscreen work attributed to Micah Lexier (1960) was C$9,000 - paid for "One Of These Things / Commas (Blue X 4), 2003" at Waddington's in Toronto on Thu, Mar 8, 2012.
ArtValue.ca has 12 auction art sale records for their silkscreen results, with prices in the range of C$250 to C$10,000.

Waddington's Auction House Biography and Notes

Written language is prevalent in Micah Lexier's work, as are themes of ordered systems, time, measurement and organization. In One of These Things / Commas (Blue, Pink, Blue, Blue), these concepts are layered and deeply embedded; at first sight, the commas appear to be replicas of each other, but in addition to the one obvious difference, there are more subtle variations between them that speak to Lexier's attention to order and comparison. "The title refers to the childhood diversion in which a toddler must learn to recognize, amid a set of diverse objects, the one anomaly that 'doesn't belong' because 'it's not like the others." No two commas are the same, differentiated by colour, size and orientation. His fixation on language also comes into play, as does the notion of time. Quotation marks set words apart from those surrounding them (another conceptual layer in this work) but also serve to change the tempo of reading. One pauses to focus on a particular grouping of words and to interpret them in relation to the others from which they are isolated.

(*) Value is calculated as an average of the top silkscreen sale records from ArtValue.ca database.
This information is not intended to substitute professional advice.
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