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Mowry Baden: Day by Day<br />

DELUGE GALLERY, VICTORIA BC – APR 6-MAY 12 Mowry<br />

Baden is a prominent Canadian sculptor who has<br />

influenced a generation of sculptors in Canada and the<br />

United States with his participatory installations. He has<br />

been described as “a maker of task-oriented objects”<br />

intended to lure visitors and stimulate physical and<br />

perceptual interaction. <strong>The</strong> Deluge exhibit presents a<br />

selection of over 70 drawings from among hundreds of<br />

sketchbook pages. <strong>The</strong> drawings include schematics for<br />

sculptural projects, delicate figurative sketches and<br />

abstract illustrations. <strong>The</strong>y provide a rare look at Baden’s<br />

creative process.<br />

Baden’s body-oriented works of the late 1960s and<br />

early 1970s, and his broader interest in the perceptual<br />

and interactive possibilities of art were considered<br />

influential to artists Kim Adams, Lewis Baltz, Michael<br />

Brewster, Chris Burden, Stephen Davis, and Jessica<br />

Stockholder. His conceptual frameworks, borrowed from<br />

psychology, architecture and performance, challenge the<br />

tenets of contemporary sculpture.<br />

Baden taught at Stanford University, the University of<br />

preview<br />

www.antimatter.ws<br />

Mowry Baden, Aug 14 1992 (1992), ink on paper<br />

[Deluge <strong>Gallery</strong>, Victoria BC, Apr 6-<strong>May</strong> 12]<br />

British Columbia and, since 1975, at the University of Victoria, where he is currently professor<br />

emeritus. He has had solo and group exhibitions across North America, including Los Angeles,<br />

Mexico City, Montreal, Vancouver and New York. He has been commissioned to create public art<br />

works – many controversial in their reception -- in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Santa Barbara,<br />

Pittsburgh, Washington and Victoria, where he lives. Mia Johnson<br />

PHOTO: JOHN YANYSHYN/COURTESY: THE CANADA COUNCIL<br />

TO SIDNEY/N. SAANICH<br />

M. MORGAN WARREN’S STUDIO,<br />

PENINSULA<br />

TO MALTWOOD<br />

ART MUSEUM AND<br />

MCPHERSON<br />

Herald North Park St<br />

LIBRARY, UNIV.<br />

GALLERY AT<br />

Gladstone St<br />

OF VICTORIA<br />

THE MAC<br />

Fisgard St<br />

◆ ◆DALES<br />

◆ MASTER<br />

◆ Cormorant St<br />

ART CENTRE ◆ AVENUE<br />

FRAN WILLIS<br />

MARTIN<br />

BATCHELOR Pandora<br />

◆ WINCHESTER<br />

Oak Bay Ave ◆GALLERY<br />

TO XCHANGES<br />

AND 'CHOSIN<br />

IN THE<br />

OAK BAY<br />

POTTERY<br />

Johnson St<br />

VILLAGE<br />

ON CANVAS ◆<br />

Yates St<br />

◆DELUGE<br />

Bastion Sq<br />

View St<br />

◆WEST END<br />

OPEN SPACE ◆<br />

Fort St<br />

WINCHESTER◆<br />

◆ALCHERINGA<br />

ART GALLERY OF<br />

◆ Broughton GREATER VICTORIA<br />

COMMUNITY<br />

◆<br />

ARTS COUNCIL Courteney<br />

➜<br />

Wharf St<br />

Store St<br />

Government<br />

Burnside Rd<br />

Fantan Alley<br />

Gordon<br />

Broad St<br />

Douglas<br />

➜<br />

Humboldt<br />

Blanshard<br />

Quadra<br />

Cook St<br />

Fernwood Rd<br />

Moss St<br />

Joan Cr<br />

Begbie St<br />

Fort St<br />

➜<br />

Foul Bay Rd<br />

Monterey Ave<br />

Belleville St<br />

Superior<br />

◆ ROYAL B.C.<br />

MUSEUM<br />

Fairfield Rd<br />

Chapman St<br />

VICTORIA<br />

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