Public Artwork
As You Were
Location:
International Forest Products, Mackenzie Senzai Division lumber , 130th Street, Surrey, BC, Canada
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Alternate title:
A Project for Surrey; A Project For Surrey: As You Were
Artwork creator(s):
Lexier, Micah
Text author(s):
Lexier, Micah
Installation year:
1991
Remarks on location:
On the edges of the municipality of Surrey. Installed on top of a mooring dolphin used for sawdust barges. Can be viewed from the municipal fishing dock on the Fraser River, at the North end of 130th Street.
Text of the artwork:
As You Were.
Text theme:
Interjection; desire to turn back time
Artwork theme:
(Local) community; industrial history of the area; colonized landscape
History:
In 1991, the Surrey Art Gallery began discussions with Micah Lexier on the presentation of a survey of his site-specific installations. The result was a two-part project: a gallery exhibition and a new site-specific work. The exhibition Micah Lexier: Site-Specific Installations Re-presented featured ten of Lexier’s artworks, created since 1982.
Commissioned by the Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C., to create a work about the local community, As You Were is an outdoor, site-specific public work installed in conjunction with an exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery. The piece was originally intended to be temporary but is presently still installed. It remains a long-term loan to the International Forest Products, Mackenzie Senzai Division lumber mill. A gift from the artist, the piece is currently part of the collection of the Surrey Art Gallery (1996.17.01)
Exhibition Micah Lexier: Site-Specific Installations Re-presented, Surrey Art Gallery. Curator: Liane Davison.
August 30-October5, 1991
August 30-October5, 1991
Event date(s):
1991 Dimensions:
Height:
0.3m
Width:
2.43m
Artist's biography:
Lexier, Micah
Owner(s):
Surrey Art Gallery Document(s):
Syndicate
