Mowry Baden has long been interested in perception and in art as a form of experience rather than object. One of Canada's most distinguished senior artists, his sculptural installations are at once pedagogical and experimental, often inviting comparison with technical and laboratory equipment. They are designed to undo the mappings of memory by way of unexpected physical sensations. Freckled Gyres, a viewer-activated installation, developed these interests in ways that are particularly relevant to contemporary concerns with cinema and its mesmeric effects.
Oct 19, 2000 – Nov 12, 2000
Past
Freckled Gyres
Mowry Baden
- Curator
- Barbara Fischer
Barbara Fischer was the first curator of the Blackwood Gallery, from 1999–2008. She is currently Executive Director/Chief Curator of The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, as well as an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream and the Director of the Master of Visual Studies program in Curatorial Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. Fischer has curated award-winning solo and group exhibitions in the area of contemporary art and its histories, including the internationally circulating retrospective exhibition General Idea Editions 1967-1995 (Kunstverein Munich, Kunsthalle Zurich, Kunst-Werke ICA Berlin, CAAC Seville, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, and the Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, among others), and Projections (2007), the first major survey (and touring exhibition) on projection-based works in the history of contemporary art in Canada.
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University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
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The galleries are currently closed, reopening March 27. Hours of operation: Monday–Saturday, 12–5pm.
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The Blackwood is situated on the Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Seneca, and Huron-Wendat.