Schooled in classical sculpture, Lawrence Argent may best be known for his huge blue bear sculpture at the Denver Convention Center. This painter, public artist and arts professor spent January building an ice sculpture for Vail's Winterfest. Lawrence served as a juror for last year's visual arts fellowships and returns in that role -- and will speak at the UW Art Museum's Public Arts Symposium April 3-4.
Here's a short bio:
LAWRENCE ARGENT was born in England and educated in sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and has a MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; the Colo. Council on the Arts; the Core Fellowship at the Fine Arts Museum, Houston; and has been an artist in residence at the John Michael Kohler Foundation. He is Professor of Art at the University of Denver, and was awarded the Distinguished Scholar award in 2002. He has exhibited internationally and is working on public art projects around the U.S. His art encompasses a breadth of form and materials, enveloping each with a path of consciousness through which the physical promotes the non-physical and the sublime emerges as a vehicle laying a slippery foundation in the gap between stimulus and response. Web site: http://www.lawrenceargent.com/
Find a printable fellowship application form at http://wyoarts.state.wy.us/.
Here's a short bio:
LAWRENCE ARGENT was born in England and educated in sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and has a MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; the Colo. Council on the Arts; the Core Fellowship at the Fine Arts Museum, Houston; and has been an artist in residence at the John Michael Kohler Foundation. He is Professor of Art at the University of Denver, and was awarded the Distinguished Scholar award in 2002. He has exhibited internationally and is working on public art projects around the U.S. His art encompasses a breadth of form and materials, enveloping each with a path of consciousness through which the physical promotes the non-physical and the sublime emerges as a vehicle laying a slippery foundation in the gap between stimulus and response. Web site: http://www.lawrenceargent.com/
Find a printable fellowship application form at http://wyoarts.state.wy.us/.
Photo: Lawrence Argent's sculpture, "I See What You Mean," at the Denver Convention Center.
