ANDREW MAIZE
“i find myself between promise and ruin“
June 12-17, 2025
Front Street & Princess Street
Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory, Dawson City, Yukon
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday, June 12th, 2025 7pm – 10pm
As part of the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival
Gallery-Hop
Re:Imagine | Re:Create is a public art initiative presented by the ODD Gallery in collaboration with STEPS Public Art that champions sustainability, creative reuse, and community engagement. The program commissions an artist with experience in reclaimed materials to create a site-specific installation using salvaged items from across Dawson City. Installed on the dike during the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival (June 12–15, 2025), the work will explore environmental responsibility and the social stories embedded in discarded materials, transforming them into accessible, thought-provoking public art.
i find myself between promise and ruin is a series of experimental kinetic installations made during Maize’s 4 week residency at the Macaulay House. While in Dawson, Maize has been researching the history of the Yukon Gold Company, founded in 1906 by American businessman and art collector Solomon Guggenheim. Solomon’s niece, Peggy Guggenheim, was also an prominent art collector, and
was influential in the careers of many artists, such as Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder and Jackson Pollock. Three artists who have had a big influence on Maize’s artistic practice.
These works are experimental and improvised, and are a way to think through the deeply intertwined and complicated relationship between place, culture, art, resource extraction, wealth, history and the contemporary moment we find ourselves in.
Photo my John Musik, June 2025
Andrew Maize is an artist whose playful and meandering research-based practice draws upon language, relationships and technology as catalysts for conversation. As an arts educator and organizer, he has been involved in collaborative projects such as White Rabbit Arts, the Circus of the Normal and the Lunenburg School of the Arts. Maize received a BFA Interdisciplinary from NSCAD University in 2011 and an MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. Maize was shortlisted in the RBC Painting Competition in 2015 and 2016.
STEPS (Sustainable Thinking & Expressions in Public Spaces)
This project is part of the CreateSpace Public Art Residency by STEPS Public Art , a national program bringing public art to communities across the country. The residency is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Race Relations Foundation with funding provided by the Government of Canada, and TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment.
This project is supported by STEPS Public Art, the TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment and the Canadian Council for the Arts.
