News: Micah Lexier Wins $1-Million Calgary Sculpture Commission
Rendering for Micah Lexier’s Half K, view from southwest
On June 5, the Torode Group of Companies announced Micah Lexier as the winner of its $1-million Arriva Public Art Competition in Calgary. Lexier’s project, Half K, was selected from an international invitational list of art proposals. It features a 500-metre-long drawing that encompasses a heritage schoolhouse on the site of a new Torode commercial and residential development in Calgary’s Victoria Park area.
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Artist Micah Lexier |
Lexier, the well-known Toronto-based conceptual artist and sculptor, has produced a dozen public art commissions in recent years. He is represented in Calgary by Trépanier Baer and in Toronto by Birch Libralato. Group president John Torode, a noted Calgary art patron, has a history of linking art and business ventures. He said, “It is not about just supporting the arts, it is about incorporating art in everything we do.”
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Rendering for Micah Lexier’s Half K, view from north |
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