Book Bag Drawings is a series of 18 unique sculptures made in 2015. Each sculpture, which started as a found canvas tote bag, was altered with the addition of a pencil line, a strip of fabric sewn to the bag and some stray threads.
Micah Lexier (born 1960) 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 produced fifteen 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). This is his third publication with Nieves.
