I Find Myself Between Promise and Ruin by Andrew Maize
As part of the 2025 STEPS Public Art Residency and in partnership with the ODD gallery, Andrew Maize is an artist whose playful and meandering research-based practice draws upon language, relationships and technology as catalysts for conversation.
Project at a glance
Location: Dawson City, Yukon
Artists: Andrew Maize
Documentarian: John Musick
Year: 2025
Services: Artist Capacity Building
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artist-in-residence
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experimental kinetic public art installations
About I Find Myself Between Promise and Ruin by Andrew Maize
I Find Myself Between Promise and Ruin is a series of experimental kinetic public art installations made during Maize’s 4 week residency at the Macaulay House. While in Dawson, Maize had 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 a 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 public artworks 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.
“This opportunity allowed me the space/time to dive deep into my practice for 4 weeks – and I’m so grateful for it.”
About the Artist
Andrew Maize
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.
Funders
The 2025 STEPS Public Art Residency is made possible by support from TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment.
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