Mowry Baden Explained

Mowry Baden
Birth Name:Mowry Thacher Baden
Birth Date:17 January 1936
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California
Nationality:Canadian, American
Occupation:Artist
Known For:Sculpture
Awards:Guggenheim Fellowship
Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts

Mowry Thacher Baden (born January 17, 1936) 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.

Life

Baden was born January 17, 1936, in Los Angeles, California,[1] to Frank Baden and Jane Louise Thacher.

A 1954 graduate of Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, California, Baden studied at Pomona College (BA, 1958) and Stanford University (MFA, 1965).[2] [3] He has practiced sculpture for nearly 50 years and has taught sculpture at Raymond College, Pomona College, UBC, and the University of Victoria, from which he retired in 1997. Artist Chris Burden was one of his students.[4]

In 1958, he married Gretchen Fosburgh Kaiser, granddaughter of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser.[5] They divorced in 1973.[6]

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

Art practice

Baden is known for his sculptures that allow the viewer to generate kinaesthetic experiences.[7] [8] To this end, his gallery-based works often use mechanisms or physical components that encourage viewer interaction.[9] [10]

Public artworks

Exhibitions

Baden's exhibitions include:

Awards

In 2006, Baden was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.[22] In 2015, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.[23] [24]

Teaching practice

Baden taught at Stanford University, University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA)[25] and Pomona College[26] at the Claremont Graduate University.[27] In 1971, he left California for Canada.[28] There, he taught at the University of British Columbia's main Vancouver campus followed by a tenured position 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,[26] [29] James Carl, Catherine MacLean, Barbara Fischer, Bill Burns, Lewis Baltz, Jessica Stockholder[30] and Kim Adams.

Collections

Baden's work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,[31] the Pomona College Museum of Art,[32] the Vancouver Art Gallery,[33] the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,[34] the Oakland Art Museum, Oakland CA, the University of California, Berkeley CA, the Glenbow Art Museum, Calgary AB, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Science Center, Lubbock TX, the Art Bank, Canada Council, Ottawa, the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, the Exploratorium, San Francisco, the Addison Gallery, Andover MA, University of California, Santa Barbara, the American Psychological Association, Washington DC.[4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mowry Baden fonds: Finding Aid. National Gallery of Canada. 20 June 2016.
  2. Web site: Future Cities. www.virtualcities.mcmaster.ca.
  3. Book: Roger Matuz. Contemporary Canadian artists. 1997. Gale Canada. 978-1-896413-46-4.
  4. Web site: Mowry Baden. mowrybaden.com. 13 May 2019.
  5. News: Wedding Revealed . March 26, 2024 . . June 24, 1958 . 18. subscription.
  6. Washington, U.S., Divorce Records, 1968–2017
  7. Book: Vanguard. 1987. Vancouver Art Gallery..
  8. Book: Andreas Broeckmann. Gunalan Nadarajan. Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology: Historical Investigations on the Sites and the Migration of Knowledge. 2008. VDG. 978-3-89739-611-1.
  9. Book: Walk Ways. 1 January 2002. Independent Curators International. 978-0-916365-65-3.
  10. Book: Mowry Baden. Montgomery Art Gallery. Freckled gyres: sculpture. 2001. Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College. 9780915478729.
  11. Web site: Pavilion, Rock and Shell. Artsvictoria.ca. City of Victoria. 20 December 2016.
  12. Web site: City of Vancouver Public Art Registry.
  13. Web site: Exploratorium Exhibit Cross Reference. www.exploratorium.edu.
  14. News: Kastor. Elizabeth. HOME IS WHAT THE ART IS. Washington Post. 22 December 2016.
  15. Book: Re:view: Newsletter of the Friends of Photography. 1992. The Friends.
  16. Book: Sandra Q. Firmin. Artpark 1974-1984. 27 October 2010. Princeton Architectural Press. 9781616890193.
  17. Book: Funk Bastler. Funk. University of California Press. 50–. GGKEY:QB2B4WR8Q56.
  18. Book: Robert Youds. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Mowry Baden and Roland Brener: thirty years in Victoria. 2006. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. 9780888852267 .
  19. Book: Selection 1968: Recent Accessions to the University Art Collections: Exhibition at the University Art Gallery, 6 Aug.-15 Sept. 1968. 1968. University Art Museum.
  20. Book: Artforum. 1975. Artforum.
  21. Book: Josée Drouin-Brisebois. Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer. 2008. National Gallery of Canada. 978-0-88884-855-0.
  22. Web site: Baldisera. Lisa. Mowry Baden – Essay. Governor General's Award in Media and Visual Arts. Canada Council. 9 June 2016.
  23. Web site: Mowry Baden. Guggenheim Foundation. 7 June 2016.
  24. Web site: Sandals. Leah. Mowry Baden & Mark Ruwedel Win Guggenheim Fellowships. Canadian Art. 7 June 2016.
  25. Book: Thomas Albright. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History. 1985. University of California Press. 978-0-520-05193-5. 259–.
  26. Book: Chris Burden. Anne Ayres. Paul Schimmel . Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey. April 1988. Newport Harbor Art Museum. 9780917493119.
  27. Book: Michael Fallon. Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s. 18 August 2014. Counterpoint. 978-1-61902-404-5. 123–.
  28. Book: Sculpture. July 2003. International Sculpture Center.
  29. Web site: Chris Burden - Laguna Art Museum. Laguna Art Museum.
  30. Web site: Baird. Daniel. Jessica Stockholder: Stand-Up Performance. Canadian Art. 20 December 2016.
  31. Web site: I Walk The Line – Works – eMuseum. collection.mcasd.org.
  32. Web site: Pomona College Museum of Art. embarkweb1.campus.pomona.edu.
  33. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-07-30 . 2016-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001618/http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/media_room/pdf/The%20Collection.pdf . dead .
  34. Web site: Mowry Baden – MAC Montréal.

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