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Name
  
Mowry Baden


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Books
  
Freckled gyres, Byron Johnston

Education
  
Stanford University (1965), Pomona College

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Mowry Baden (born in 1936 in Los Angeles) is an American sculptor who has lived and worked in Canada since 1975. He is known for his gallery-based kinaesthetic sculptures and for his public sculpture, both of which require a strong element of bodily interaction on the part of the viewer.

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Life

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Baden was born January 17, 1936 in Los Angeles, California. A 1954 graduate of Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, California, Baden studied at Pomona College (BA, 1958) and Stanford University (MFA, 1965).

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He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, where he continues to produce sculpture and public art. He is married to actor-director-writer Judith McDowell.

Art practice

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Baden is known for his sculptures that allow the viewer to generate kinaesthetic experiences. To this end, his gallery-based works often use mechanisms or physical components that encourage viewer interaction.

Public artworks

  • Pavilion, Rock and Shell, 2005, Victoria, BC, Canada
  • Fulcrum of Vision, 2003, Vancouver, BC
  • The Wall of Death, 1993 (with Colin Baden), Seattle, Washington
  • Silage Beach, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
  • Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
  • Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco, CA
  • Artpark, Lewiston, NY (with Michael Brewster)
  • University of California

    • Awards and exhibitions

    In 2006, Baden was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. In 2015, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.

    Baden's exhibitions include:

  • Galeria Excelsior, Mexico City (1957)
  • Galleria Pogliani, Rome (1959)
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York (1960)
  • Cobar Gallery, New York (1962)
  • University of Mexico, Mexico City (1963)
  • San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (1968)
  • The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (1972 and 1979)
  • Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles (1975)
  • National Gallery of Canada, (2008)
  • Benjamin Diaz Gallery, Toronto (2007 and 2009)

    • Teaching practice

    Baden taught at Stanford University, University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA) and Pomona College at the Claremont Graduate University before leaving California for Canada in the early 1970s. In Canada, he taught at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia) prior to his tenure at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia from 1975 to 1997. Among his past students are several important contemporary artists, including Chris Burden, James Carl, Catherine MacLean, Barbara Fischer, Bill Burns, Lewis Baltz, Jessica Stockholder and Kim Adams.

    Collections

    Baden's work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

    References

    Mowry Baden Wikipedia
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