Things exist. We do not have to create them; we only have to grasp their relations. - Stéphane Mallarmé 1891
Micah Lexier's latest show at Birch Libralato Gallery is a celebration of found objects, or more precisely, a collection of fragments of found cardboard boxes cleverly put together. Even the title of the show itself, Things Exist, is a found object. Mallarmé's quote could not have summarized Lexier's show in better words.
Lexier at Birch Libralato, Toronto 2011: