Lawrence Argent (January 24, 1957 – October 4, 2017) was a

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best known for his 2004 public artwork '' I See What You Mean'' at the

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Early life

Argent 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

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at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Career

Argent accepted a teaching position at the

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School of Art and Art History in 1993; he was named as a professor emeritus in 2017. Argent was at the forefront of a movement known as

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, using "computer-aided design software to create sculptures with once-impractical whorls, warps, swirls and bends." Argent died of

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on October 4, 2017.

Selected works

* ''Cojones'' (1999) * ''Library of Applause'' (1994) * ''Whispers'' (2002) at the Ritchie Center, Denver * '' I See What You Mean'' (2004), Denver * ''Leap'' (2011) at the

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* '' Flowing Kiss'' (2013) in Columbus, Ohio * ''I am here'' (2014) in Chengdu, China * ''Venus'' (2017), San Francisco

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Argent, Lawrence 1957 births 2017 deaths Artists from Denver Australian emigrants to the United States Maryland Institute College of Art alumni People from Essex (before 1965) RMIT University alumni Sculptors from Colorado University of Denver faculty