Andrew Maize
b. in Toronto, Ontario. lives and works in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Andrew Maize is currently beginning to clean out his studio after a year long residency at the NSCAD Community Studio Residency Program in Lunenburg, NS. He is an art educator at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, The Makery, NSCAD University and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. He is a coordinator of the White Rabbit Residency and Festival since 2011 and is an active member of the Lunenburg Art Gallery and the Red Clay Studio Society. He graduated from NSCAD University with a BFA in 2011.
Andrew Maize is currently beginning to clean out his studio after a year long residency at the NSCAD Community Studio Residency Program in Lunenburg, NS. He is an art educator at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, The Makery, NSCAD University and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. He is a coordinator of the White Rabbit Residency and Festival since 2011 and is an active member of the Lunenburg Art Gallery and the Red Clay Studio Society. He graduated from NSCAD University with a BFA in 2011.
Past exhibition at Mónica Reyes Gallery (formerly Back Gallery Project)
Andrew Maize | Nova Curve (an anagram for this whole ball of wax) (2016)
Maize is a trans-disciplinary artist whose process oriented approach explores language, movement [gravity/time/space] and the patterns of human systems such as the grid. Maize often assumes the role of a facilitator/composer while working through material explorations, collaboration and public participation. His practice exists somewhere between the performance itself, where he sets parameters and aspirations and explores them thoroughly, and craft where he is curious and celebrates qualities inherent within materials. The material or performance is a catalyst for larger conversations – the expression a result of connection to space, community and place. Most importantly, Maize brings an optimism to his shifting and critical curiosity, taking seriously both the conceptual framework and materials as a starting point, to engage the audience in political, psychological, historical and geographical contexts. As an arts educator and organizer, he is involved in collaborative projects such as White Rabbit Arts, the Circus of the Normal and the Lunenburg School of the Arts. Maize was shortlisted for the 2015 RBC Painting Competition.
For Andrew's first solo exhibit in Vancouver at Back Gallery Project the artist will be producing new works at Malaspina Printmakers and the Burrard Arts Foundation during the month of June, the results of both residencies will be the body of work that will be exhibited during the month of July at the gallery.
We thank Malaspina Printamakers and the Burrard Arts Foundation for this collaboration.
For Andrew's first solo exhibit in Vancouver at Back Gallery Project the artist will be producing new works at Malaspina Printmakers and the Burrard Arts Foundation during the month of June, the results of both residencies will be the body of work that will be exhibited during the month of July at the gallery.
We thank Malaspina Printamakers and the Burrard Arts Foundation for this collaboration.
News
Genevieve Michaels, "A Conversation with Andrew Maize". June, 2016
http://www.burrardarts.org/a-conversation-with-andrew-maize/
http://www.burrardarts.org/a-conversation-with-andrew-maize/