Lawrence Argent
Arts/Industry: Foundry, 1994
Lawrence Argent’s art encompasses a breadth of form, materials, and sites that engage the viewer in questioning the assumed. Argent’s interventions envelope a path of consciousness through which the physical promotes the nonphysical, in which the sublime emerges as a vehicle traversing a slippery foundation in the gap between stimulus and response.
He received numerous fellowships including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Colorado Council on the Arts, and the Core Fellowship at the Fine Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. He was an artist in residence at the John Michael Kohler Foundation. He was a professor of art at the University of Denver, where he was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2002. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Lawrence Argent was born in England and trained in sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and received an MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
