:Mowry Baden
{{Short description|American sculptor (born 1936)}}
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| birth_name = Mowry Thacher Baden
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|1|17}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California
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| nationality = Canadian, American
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| occupation = Artist
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| known_for = Sculpture
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| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship
Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts
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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,{{cite web|title=Mowry Baden fonds: Finding Aid|url=https://www.beaux-arts.ca/documents/ngc128.html|website=National Gallery of Canada|accessdate=20 June 2016}} 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).{{cite web|url=http://www.virtualcities.mcmaster.ca/artists/baden.html|title=Future Cities|website=www.virtualcities.mcmaster.ca}}{{cite book|author=Roger Matuz|title=Contemporary Canadian artists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdBHAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Gale Canada|isbn=978-1-896413-46-4}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://mowrybaden.com/about|title=Mowry Baden|website=mowrybaden.com|accessdate=13 May 2019}}
In 1958, he married Gretchen Fosburgh Kaiser, granddaughter of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser.{{cite news |title=Wedding Revealed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/458439393/?article=7ddcb554-de47-4e9b-a8ed-f7e4a73645a8&focus=0.38126552,0.5560638,0.49708432,0.8704291&xid=3398 |access-date=March 26, 2024 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |date=June 24, 1958 |page=18|url-access=subscription}} They divorced in 1973.Washington, U.S., Divorce Records, 1968–2017
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.{{cite book|title=Vanguard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFJUAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Vancouver Art Gallery.}}{{cite book|author1=Andreas Broeckmann|author2=Gunalan Nadarajan|title=Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology: Historical Investigations on the Sites and the Migration of Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w54nAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=VDG|isbn=978-3-89739-611-1}} To this end, his gallery-based works often use mechanisms or physical components that encourage viewer interaction.{{cite book|title=Walk Ways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RlpQAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Independent Curators International|isbn=978-0-916365-65-3}}{{cite book|author1=Mowry Baden|author2=Montgomery Art Gallery|title=Freckled gyres: sculpture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UgdKAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College|isbn=9780915478729}}
Public artworks
- Pavilion, Rock and Shell, 2005, Victoria, BC, Canada{{cite web|title=Pavilion, Rock and Shell|url=http://artsvictoria.ca/art/4297/view|website=Artsvictoria.ca|publisher=City of Victoria|accessdate=20 December 2016}}
- Fulcrum of Vision, 2003, Vancouver, BC{{cite web|url=http://vancouver.ca/publicart_wac/publicart.exe/indiv_artwork?pnRegistry_No=404|title=City of Vancouver Public Art Registry|publisher=}}
- The Wall of Death, 1993 (with Colin Baden), Seattle, Washington
- Silage Beach, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA{{cite web|url=http://www.exploratorium.edu/xref/exhibits/silage_beach.html|title=Exploratorium Exhibit Cross Reference|website=www.exploratorium.edu}}
- Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC{{cite news|last1=Kastor|first1=Elizabeth|title=HOME IS WHAT THE ART IS|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1988/12/11/home-is-what-the-art-is/19ee5602-4f45-478a-8841-15f62e8d510b/|newspaper=Washington Post|accessdate=22 December 2016}}
- Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco, CA{{cite book|title=Re:view: Newsletter of the Friends of Photography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ybMlAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=The Friends}}
- Artpark, Lewiston, NY (with Michael Brewster){{cite book|author=Sandra Q. Firmin|title=Artpark 1974-1984|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yr1MAQAAMAAJ|date=27 October 2010|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=9781616890193}}
- University of California
Exhibitions
Baden's exhibitions include:
- Galeria Excelsior, Mexico City (1957){{cite book|author=Funk Bastler|title=Funk|date=1967 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yl0TpZRPAIC&pg=PA50|publisher=University of California Press|pages=50–|id=GGKEY:QB2B4WR8Q56}}
- Galleria Pogliani, Rome (1959){{cite book|author1=Robert Youds|author2=Art Gallery of Greater Victoria|title=Mowry Baden and Roland Brener: thirty years in Victoria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubFNAAAAYAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Art Gallery of Greater Victoria|isbn=9780888852267 }}
- Museum of Modern Art, New York (1960){{cite book|title=Selection 1968: Recent Accessions to the University Art Collections: Exhibition at the University Art Gallery, 6 Aug.-15 Sept. 1968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbzpAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=University Art Museum}}
- Cobar Gallery, New York (1962)
- University of Mexico, Mexico City (1963)
- San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (1968)
- The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (1972,1979 and a retrospective in 2019)
- Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles (1975){{cite book|title=Artforum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DSMWAQAAMAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Artforum}}
- National Gallery of Canada, (2008){{cite book|author1=Josée Drouin-Brisebois|title=Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T915cLGktfsC|year=2008|publisher=National Gallery of Canada|isbn=978-0-88884-855-0}}
- Benjamin Diaz Gallery, Toronto (2007 and 2009)
- Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (2019)
Awards
In 2006, Baden was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.{{cite web|last1=Baldisera|first1=Lisa|title=Mowry Baden – Essay|url=http://ggavma.canadacouncil.ca/htmlfixed/Archives/2006/xr127864857225504425.htm|website=Governor General's Award in Media and Visual Arts|publisher=Canada Council|accessdate=9 June 2016}} In 2015, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.{{cite web|title=Mowry Baden|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/mowry-baden/|website=Guggenheim Foundation|accessdate=7 June 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Sandals|first1=Leah|title=Mowry Baden & Mark Ruwedel Win Guggenheim Fellowships|url=http://canadianart.ca/news/mowry-baden-mark-ruwedel-win-guggenheim-fellowships/|website=Canadian Art|accessdate=7 June 2016}}
Teaching practice
Baden taught at Stanford University, University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA){{cite book|author=Thomas Albright|title=Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aGN3vXcZl74C&pg=PA259|year=1985|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05193-5|pages=259–}} and Pomona College{{cite book|author1=Chris Burden|author2=Anne Ayres|author3=Paul Schimmel |title=Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MoBQAAAAMAAJ|date=April 1988|publisher=Newport Harbor Art Museum|isbn=9780917493119}} at the Claremont Graduate University.{{cite book|author=Michael Fallon|title=Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UtHpBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA123|date=18 August 2014|publisher=Counterpoint|isbn=978-1-61902-404-5|pages=123–}} In 1971, he left California for Canada.{{cite book|title=Sculpture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsdUAAAAMAAJ|date=July 2003|publisher=International Sculpture Center}} 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,{{cite web|url=https://lagunaartmuseum.org/artist/chris-burden/|title=Chris Burden - Laguna Art Museum|website=Laguna Art Museum}} James Carl, Catherine MacLean, Barbara Fischer, Bill Burns, Lewis Baltz, Jessica Stockholder{{cite web|last1=Baird|first1=Daniel|title=Jessica Stockholder: Stand-Up Performance|url=http://canadianart.ca/features/jessica_stockholder/|website=Canadian Art|accessdate=20 December 2016}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://collection.mcasd.org/objects/2482/i-walk-the-line|title=I Walk The Line – Works – eMuseum|website=collection.mcasd.org}} the Pomona College Museum of Art,{{cite web|url=http://embarkweb1.campus.pomona.edu/THA1490?sid=29646&x=269994|title=Pomona College Museum of Art|website=embarkweb1.campus.pomona.edu}} the Vancouver Art Gallery,{{Cite web |url=https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/media_room/pdf/The%20Collection.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-07-30 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001618/http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/media_room/pdf/The%20Collection.pdf |url-status=dead }} the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,{{cite web|url=https://macm.org/en/collections/artiste/mowry-baden|title=Mowry Baden – MAC Montréal|publisher=}} 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.
References
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External links
- [http://www.mowrybaden.com/ Official site]
- [https://www.gallery.ca/library/ngc128.html Mowry Baden fonds] at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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Category:20th-century American sculptors
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Category:American male sculptors
Category:Sculptors from Los Angeles
Category:Artists from Victoria, British Columbia
Category:Pomona College alumni
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:Stanford University faculty
Category:University of the Pacific (United States) faculty
Category:Claremont Graduate University faculty
Category:Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Category:American expatriate academics in Canada
Category:Academic staff of the University of Victoria
Category:Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners