Lawrence Argent

Lawrence Argent (January 24, 1957 – October 4, 2017) was a visual artist known for his public artwork I See What You Mean, installed at the Colorado Convention Center. 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. Argent accepted a teaching position at the University of Denver School of Art and Art History in 1993. He created a number of public artworks, photographs, and installations including Cojones (1999), Library of Applause (1994), Whispers (2002), and three of his more visible pieces I See What You Mean (2004) at the Colorado Convention Center, Leap (2011) at the Sacramento International Airport, and I am here (2014) in Chengdu, China. 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 on October 4, 2017. The cause was cardiac arrest.