MICAH LEXIER is a Winnipeg-born, Toronto-based artist. He curates occasionally and collects often - generally items made of paper, including out-of-print conceptual art documents, printed cardboard boxes, and various items found on the street. Micah's year long changing display, Twelve of One, can be viewed at Art Metropole from January to December, 2010. Concurrent with his project for us, Lexier has produced a second one-year project for the BMO Project room, which can be viewed at www.iamthecoin.com. The brand new publication Micah Lexier: I'm Thinking of a Number, published by NSCAD Press, is a 30 survey of the artists practice in the multiple format and includes a new multiple within its cover. Micah Lexier is represented in Toronto by Birch Libralato, in Calgary by TrepanierBaer, and in Berlin by the Gitte Weise Galerie. A bit more information can be found at micahlexier.com.

Peter Hobbs, Faggot Patch, 2009
A felt patch with the image of a bundle of sticks on it. The history of the word "faggot" reveals the intimate connection between Gay men, heresy and witchcraft. Both witches and heretics were regularly burned on bundles of sticks called "faggots." In popular speech of the time expressions popped up like "fire and faggots" suggesting that the victims themselves were called "faggots." The word "Faggot" comes from the Latin or Greek fagus, which means beech or oak trees. Burning witches and heretics on bundles of faggots may have originated from a religious link with beech and oak trees - which were sacred in pre-Christian Europe. Edition of 100.

Instant Coffee, IC IC IC IC, 2008
Instant Coffee regularly produces limited edition posters based on their slogans, as well as self-branded products such as this 'IC IC IC IC' poster. Printed for, and pasted up in their installations, most of these posters end up being destroyed. This ephemeral letterpress poster was printed in red on pink newsprint in various fonts by a local printer in Columbia. Limited edition of 100.

Céline Wouters, Newspaper, 2006
Research on the development of the English language resulted in "Newspaper". It shows the relation between words and the date they where officially adopted in the Oxford dictionary.The newspaper consists of 24 pages with each page shows one ordinary word. Besides showing how those words/word families are growing, it also exposes in a funny and surprising way our history and the conversion of history into language.

Peter James Field, Numbers, 2009
Contains over 300 portraits of famous/infamous people sorted into a series of numerical lists. Organized in descending order, the lists offer a wordless hierarchy offering only a line drawing portrait and corresponding number. Lists run the gambit, including height, Oscar wins/nominations, reign days, soap years, marriages, kills and more. A who's who expose of interesting and curious facts you never knew you wanted to know in pecking order. Includes a folded A3 index sheet. Edition of 250, signed and numbered. Image: page detail from "height"

Haim Steinbach, OBJECT, 2009
A board book--with a hole punched in the middle. Each page reproduces one object selected by Steinbach, and photographed head-on, as a portrait. The sixty-one images in this two-kilogram book constitute one of the most moving and autobiographical accounts of the personal journey of Steinbach. A picture book, a dictionary, a self-portrait, and a lesson in art-making.

Daryl Vocat, Pact For Adventure, 2007
"Pact For Adventure" is a limited edition folio made up of 12 loose screen prints in a hard cover folder. Graphically bold images of young boys loaded with dark humour, absurdities of youth scouting lore, and striped knee socks. The entire project is hand printed and assembled. The prints are two and three colour - primarily black with green, and some with red or pink. This is Daryl Vocat's second self-published screenprint folio, the first is "A Boy's Will," also available at Art Metropole. The hardcover folio is green, and foil stamped in gold, with a slight embossment. Printed on Magnani Velata 140 gram acid-free paper. Each print is 5.5 x 6.75 inches and sits in a 6.75 x 7.75 inch hard cover bound with Canson paper. Each folio is signed and numbered out of 100.

Michael Buckland, Pay Any Price
Facsimilie of discarded paper found on the street, reproduced on embossed card with artist's signature stamped on back in red ink. "I am Deaf Mute...". Purchaser determines price.

Rodney Graham, Recital, 1995
This splendid print is a publicity poster designed by the artist for performances of Parsifal studies, his own ten studies for small chamber group based on the system of Parsifal. The over-sized print is silkscreened in salmon and black on rag paper and features a photo of Graham by Roy Arden. Graham is known for his deadpan graphic design - this is the best example we have seen. Signed and numbered edition of 50.

Heinz Gappmayr, Texts, 1985
An elegant volume of minimal concrete and typewriter poetry.

Peter Fischli, David Weiss, David Weiss, The Way Things Go, 1987
Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss build an enormous, precarious structure 100 feet long made out of common household items-tea kettles, tires, old shoes, balloons, wooden ramps, etc. Then, with fire, water, gravity and chemistry, they create a spectacular chain reaction, a self destructing performance of physical interactions, chemical reactions and precisely crafted chaos. Now available in DVD format.

James Carl, t-shirt
Black silkscreen on high quality cotton t-shirt. A James Carl illustration of a t-shirt printed on your t-shirt. It's about time! Sizes; Women's S, M, and L, and Men's S, M, L, and XL. T-shirts available in white, and women's baby blue and pink. Unlimited edition.