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120:(1995), Lexier creates a portrait of a person using coins. A series of coins are neatly ordered in a box; in an adjacent box, loose coins sit in a gradually growing pile. Every month, another coin gets transferred from the first box to the other. Together, the 906 coins represent the life of an individual; the transfer of coins notates the passage of time. This work embodies a number of themes that are central to Lexier's art practice: timelines; life span; mortality; and the ordering of things and their undoing.
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139:(started 2005), and various collaborations with other artists and individuals. Lexier's interest in ephemera adds another dimension to his practice. He makes posters, exhibition invites, T-shirts, and other art multiples to create parallel lives for his artworks, extending his art practice out of the gallery and into the world. In 2010, the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design published,
149:(2005) is an example of how Lexier extends ideas by reworking them. It consists of adjacent portraits of people named ‘David’. The portraits are of the same person taken 10 years apart, first in 1993 and then a decade later. In keeping with Lexier's overall approach to artmaking, the work's emotional tone is muted, yet it dramatizes the universal fact of aging. A temporary
164:(born 1995), in which scribbles the artist makes over the course of a minute are transformed in a variety of ways, including: factory-produced water-cut metal sculptures, etchings, custom minted coins, lines sewn onto pieces of paper, spray-painted graffiti, and chalkboard drawings. The work memorializes the fleeting trace of the artist's hand as a timeless monument.
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203:. Lexier commissioned the Irish author to write a short story that was exactly 1334 words long, one word for every student in the school. Each student then handwrote one of the 1334 words that make up the story, which was published in an 8-page newspaper that was given away.
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157:(1994), which presents 75 portraits displayed on a freestanding wall. Each portrait is of a male named ‘David’, arranged chronologically from age one through 75.
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