Lawrence Argent


Lawrence Argent was a visual artist best known for his 2004 public artwork I See What [You Mean (Argent)|I See What You Mean] at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

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 Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Career

Argent 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.
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."
Argent died of cardiac arrest on October 4, 2017.

Selected works