Lawrence Argent (January 24, 1957 – October 4, 2017) was a visual artist best known for his 2004 public artwork I See What You Mean at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.[1]
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| Born | January 24, 1957 Essex, England |
| Died | October 4, 2017 (aged 60) Denver, Colorado |
| Alma mater | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, Maryland Institute, College of Art |
Early life
editArgent was born on January 24, 1957, in Essex, England, and grew up in Australia. He studied art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, and received his MFA in 1986, from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, in Baltimore, Maryland.[2]
Career
editArgent accepted a teaching position at the University of Denver School of Art and Art History in 1993; he was named as a professor emeritus in 2017.[3]
Argent was at the forefront of a movement known as digital sculpting, using "computer-aided design software to create sculptures with once-impractical whorls, warps, swirls and bends."[4]
Argent died of cardiac arrest on October 4, 2017.[5]
Selected works
edit- Cojones (1999)
- Library of Applause (1994)
- Whispers (2002) at the Ritchie Center, Denver
- I See What You Mean (2004), Denver
- Leap (2011) at the Sacramento International Airport
- Flowing Kiss (2013) in Columbus, Ohio[6]
- I am here (2014) in Chengdu, China[7]
- Venus (2017), San Francisco[8]
References
edit- ^ Padnani, Amisha (October 13, 2017). "Lawrence Argent, Sculptor Who Was Big on Whimsy, Dies at 60". New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ^ Wenzel, John (October 6, 2017). "Lawrence Argent, Denver's renowned "big blue bear" sculptor, dies at 60". The Know. Denver Post. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ^ "What's Really Up with Denver's Big Blue Bear?". OutThere Colorado. January 23, 2018. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
- ^ Smith, Harrison (October 16, 2017). "Lawrence Argent, Sculptor Who Brought Whimsy into Public View, Dies at 60". Washington Post. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
- ^ Paglia, Michael. "Lawrence Argent, Legendary Denver Sculptor, Has Died". Westword. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ^ "Flowing Kiss". Columbus Makes Art. Greater Columbus Arts Council. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
- ^ Daurer, Gregory (October 4, 2017). "A Look Back at Our Interview with Public Art Giant Lawrence Argent". Confluence Denver. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
- ^ Brinkow, Adam (May 17, 2017). "Venus, a MidMarket nine-story statue, opens to the public". Curbed. Retrieved June 13, 2020.