Critical Mention

SELECTED CRITICAL MENTION

Caen, Herb. “Herb Caen Column.” San Francisco Chronicle (2 November 1965)

Frankenstein, Alfred. “A confrontation with ‘Funk’.” San Francisco Chronicle (23 April 1966)

“The Land of Funk.” Newsweek (24 April 1967)

Selz, Peter with Lindsley, Carol. “Plastics and Art.” Art in America (Summer 1967)

Bloomfield, Arthur. “Beauty in Art Out of Plastics.” San Francisco Examiner (8 November 1967)

“San Francisco.” Artforum (January 1968), 48-49

“Mowry Baden.” San Francisco Chronicle (3 May 1968)

Burnham, Jack. “On Being Sculpture.” Artforum (May 1969), 44-45

Howarth, Glen. “The Eye and the Body.” Victoria Times (21 November 1971)

Lownes, Joan. “Walk Into a Tilted Room and You Change Reality.” Vancouver Sun (20 May 1973)

Wilson, William. “Plumbing the Poetry of Space and Motion.” Los Angeles Times (19 October 1975)

Plagens, Peter. “Dan Graham and Mowry Baden, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles.” Artforum (December 1975)

Ianco-Starrels. “Baden, Graham Show Environmental Works.” Los Angeles Times Calendar (21 September 1975)

Wortz, Melinda. “Mowry Baden.” Art News (November 1975)

Plagens, Peter. “Decade in Review.” Art in America (October 1979), 15

Gamwell, Lynn. “Visual Perceptions, Body Sensations.” Artweek (13 October 1979)

Mays, John Bentley. National Gallery of Canada, “Show Doesn’t Merit the Barbs.” Globe & Mail (Toronto: 12 July 1980)

Tousely, Nancy. “Visual Arts.” Calgary Herald (10 July 1980)

Keziere, Russell. “Ambivalence, Ambition and Administration.” Vanguard, Vol. 9, #7 (September 1980), 8

Harvey Brian. “Speak to Me Only With Thine Art.” Macleans (September 1980), 8

Handforth, Robert. “Pluralities/1980/Pluralities.” Arts Canada (December 1980), 38

Keziere, Russell. “Mowry Baden, Tom Burrows, Elza Mayhew, Greg Snider.” Vanguard (February 1980)

Goss, Gary. “Old Journals.” Buffalo Spree (Fall 1981), pp. 63-65

Alldritt, Judith. “Move Over Emily Carr.” Victoria Guideline (March, 1982), 8-12

Hicks, Mary. “Kinesthetic Aesthetics.” Images and Issues (Spring 1982), 62-63

Mertens, Susan. “Not an Exhibition for Wandering Minds.” Vancouver Sun (12 May 1982)

Story, Denise. “Artpark’s Artists.” Niagara Gazette (29 August 1982)

Smith, R.J. “Artpark.” Buffalo Courier Express (29 August 1982)

Daniel, Barbara. “Six Perspectives Mise En Scene.” Vanguard (September 1982)

Editor. “New Sculpture at University of California Santa Barbara.” Santa Barbara New Press (26 September 1982)

Snider, Greg. “Miss En Scene.” Parachute, (September, October, November 1982)

“Gallery dedicates space to new sculpture.” Provenance (July-August 1982)

Tomkins, Calvin. “The Art World Alternatives.” New Yorker (26 December 1983), 54-57

Tousley, Nancy. “Art Society Square Off in 3-part Exhibit.” Calgary Herald (9 November 1984)

Johnson, Eve. Vancouver Sun (9 June 1984)

Glowens, Ron. “Mowry Baden.” Artweek (July 1985)

Lewis, JoAnn. “Zygos Grecian Formula.” Washington Post (5 July 1986)

Ranfft, Eric. “Art in Victoria.” Vanguard (December-January 1986-87), 43

Burnatt, David and Schiff, Marilyn. Contemporary Canadian Art

Gould, Trevor. “Mowry Baden, A Question of Context.” Vanguard (April-May 1987)

Hackett, Regina. “Six Artists Employ Technology as a Tool for Reflection.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (21 August 1987)

Berger, David. “Stop, Look and—Above All—Listen At This Art Show.” Seattle Times (25 September 1987)

Mays, John Bentley. “Sculptures Lend Quirky Air to Life Among the Machines.” Globe & Mail (15 October 1987)

Karas, Marlene. “Floating Sculpture.” Pittsburgh Press (22 April 1988)

Miller, Donald. “Sculpture Grows Along the River.” Pittsburgh Post Gazette (14 May 1988)

Lowry, Patricia. “Festival’s Sculpture at Point Stimulating, Uneven.” Pittsburgh Press (4 June 1988)

Genereux, Linda. “New Departures.” Toronto Metropolis (June 23, 1988)

Allen, Jane Addams. “Art & Enterprise.” Washington Times (8 December 1988)

Kastor, Elizabeth. “Home is What the Art Is.” Washington Post (11 December 1988)

Forgey, Benjamin. “Something Gained, Something Glossed.” Washington Post (11 December 1988)

Richard, Paul. “WPA’s New Day.” Washington Post (11 December 1988)

Johnson, Sharen. “Bill would Define Artists’ Rights.” U.S.A. Today

Tousley, Nancy. “Viewer Part of Sculptor’s Work.” Calgary Herald (11 October 1989)

Yarrow, Andrew L. “Nature’s Forces Unleashed, in Miniature.” New York Times Weekend (9 February 1990)

“The True North of Unnatural Traces: Barbican Art Gallery.” What’s On (1 May 1991). London, England

“Unnatural Traces,“ reviewed in Day by Day News, Commentary, Digest of National and International Affairs, and Review of the Arts (30 May 1991). London, England

Hackett, Peter. “The True North: Canadian Landscape Painting, 1896-1939 and Unnatural Traces: Contemporary Art from Canada.” The Month (May 1991). London, England

Masters, Kim. “Artists Want Out of Exhibit.” Washington Post (13 July 1991)

Grierson, Bruce. “City Notes.” Monday Magazine (30 April-6 May 1992) Victoria, BC

Thatcher, Kevin. “Skater-Friendly Sculpture.” Thrasher (August 1992) San Francisco CA

Hakim, Mona. “Derouter Pour Mieux Toucher.” Le Devoir (3-4 July 1993)

Lamontagne, Valerie. “Exerting Perceptions.” Hour (1-7 July 1993)

Hackett, Regina. “Public Art Carves out Territory on the Burke-Gilman Trail.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (28 October 1993)

Hollister, Corinne. “Wall of Death.” The Lake Union Review (November 1993), 5-6

MacDonald, Sally. “Beholders See No Beauty in This Art.” Seattle Times (16 November 1993)

Pictorial Survey of Public Art, Art in America Annual (1993)

Lehman, Henry. “Bedfellows.” Mirror (June 1995)

Grande, John K. “Mowry Baden.” Artforum (October 1995)

Horne, Stephen. “Mowry Baden.” Parachute #20 (February 1996)

Wilson, William. “Mowry Baden Sculptures Challenge Our Perceptions.” Los Angeles Times (25 February 1998)

Frank, Peter. “Mowry Baden, Jeanne Silverthorne.” LA Weekly (13-19 March 1998)

Miles, Christopher. “Mowry Baden.” Art Papers (July-August 1998)

Davis, Todd. “British Columbia.” Vie des Arts (Autumn 1998)

Percy, Ingrid M. “Mowry Baden.” C Magazine (February-April 1999)

Miller, Marcus. “Potent Motion: Mowry Baden’s Kenesthetic Leisure Party.” Hour (23-29 June 1999)

Miles, Christopher. “Mowry Baden Post Wilshire and Downtown.” Artforum (October 1999)

Horne, Stephen. “Mowry Baden.” Artpress (October 1999)

Leach, David. “Planet of the Arts.” Monday Magazine (3-9 August 2000)

Blackburn, Angela. “In the Driver’s Seat and Seeing the Light.” Mississauga News (5 November 2000)

Harvey, Doug. “Peripheral Visions.” LA Weekly (2-8 February 2001)

Giroux, Christian. “Mowry Baden Turning and Turning in the Freckled Gyres.” Border Crossings, Vol. 20, #3

Chamberlain, Adrian. “Art of Controversy.” Times Colonist (27 February 2003)

“What Kind of Art Can be Too Bad for a ‘Multipurpose Facility.’” Vancouver Sun (21 July, 2003)

Welch, Wendy. “Picture the Physical,” Monday Magazine (24 July 2003)

Giroux, Christian. “Victoria’s Secret.” Border Crossings. (August 2003)

Kangas, Matthew. “Mowry Baden: Stage Fright.” Sculpture Magazine (September 2003)

Horne, Stephen. “What’s He Building in There?” Canadian Art (March 2004)

Cotter, Holland. “Moved.” NY Times (9 April 2004)

Chamberlain, Adrian. “The Art of Controversy.” Times Colonist (27 February 2005)

Litwin, Grania. “Sculptor Mowry Baden Receives Governor General’s Award.” Vancouver Sun (15 March 2006)

Dault, Gary Michael. “A Gorgeous Moment of Collective Pause.” Globe & Mail (23 September 2006)

Enright, Robert. “Turning and Turning on his Dizzying Gyres.” Border Crossings (March, 2007)

Hullot-Kentor, Robert. “Mowry Baden’s Leisure Monuments.” The Brooklyn Rail (June, 2008)

Langill, Caroline Seck. “Corridors of Practice: Technology and Performance Art on the North American Pacific Coast in the 1970s and Early 80s.” MediaArtHistoriesArchive: URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10002/458

Langill, Caroline Seck. Place Studies in Art, Media, Science, and Technology (Verlag: 2008, Germany)

Grison, Brian, “Show and Tell: Assume Nothing: New Social Practice.” Focus (Feb. 2009)

Amos, Robert, “Exhibit challenges assumptions.” Times Colonist (Feb 12, 2009)

Delgado, Jeróme, “L’expo taquine.” Le Devoir.com. (June 20-21, 2009)

Houde, Francois, “Les spectateurs sont rois et maitres.” La Presse Montreal (August 1, 2009) / Cyberpresse.ca. (June 22, 2009)

Dault, Gary Michael. “A B.C. Artist’s Leap Between Heaven and Hell.” Globe & Mail (Jan. 9, 2010)

Obee, Dave. “Public Art to Please and Offend All Tastes.” Times Colonist (July 28, 2011)

Ireland, Anne. “Mowry Baden: The Great One.” Canadian Art (Winter, 2010-11) 118-123

Sandals, Leah. “Mowry Baden and Mark Ruwedel win Guggenheim Fellowships.” Canadian Art (April 10, 2014) http://www.canadianart.ca/news/mowry-baden-mark-ruwedel-win-guggenheim-fellowships

Knight, Christopher. ‘It Happened at Pomona’ shows a brief, enduring period.” Los Angeles Times (May 10, 2012) http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-knight-pomona3-20120510,0,5278533.story

Enright, Robert. “Precision, Coercion and Delight, an interview with Mowry Baden.” Border Crossings (September, October, November 2013; Volume 32, Number 3, Issue #127)

Burnham, Jack. Dissolve Into Comprehension, Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004. Edited by Melissa Ragain. (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, The MIT Press: 2015)

Chamberlain, Adrian. “New work by Mowry Baden like a breath of fresh air.” Times Colonist (Sept. 8, 2016) www.timescolonist.com/…/new-work-by-mowry-baden-like-a-breath-of-fresh-air-1.2339037

Cachia, Amanda. The Flesh of the World (Toronto, ON, University of Toronto, 2015)

Tani, Ellen Y. Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art (Brunswick, ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art: 2018)

Tippett, Maria. Sculpture in Canada, A History. (Madeira, BC, Douglas and McIntyre Ltd., 2017)