Denver Office of Cultural Affairs’ Public Art Program announces the installation of the much anticipated public artwork by Lawrence Argent entitled I See What You Mean, a 40-foot tall, blue bear, at the Colorado Convention Center.
The artist has described I See What You Mean as a stylized representation of native fauna. As the bear peeks inside the enormous facility at the conventioneers, displacement and wonder pique curiosity and question a greater relationship of art, technology and whimsy.
“My public artworks are part of a larger whole,” stated Lawrence Argent. “I am an artist that utilizes assorted mediums and venues to engage the viewer in questioning the assumed and provide a vehicle by which stimulus opens a plethora of responses that defy verbal articulation.”
Lawrence Argent was born in England and trained in sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia and has an MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Colorado Council on the Arts, the Core Fellowship at the Fine Arts Museum in Houston, Texas, and has been an artist in residence at the John Michael Kohler Foundation. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Denver, where he was awarded the Distinguished Scholar award in 2002. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. Presently, he is working on several public art projects in the United States.
Noah Knapp, a visitor from Paxton, Nebraska, enjoying himself in front of the Big Blue Bear.
To view a short video of the installation of the Big Blue Bear, please click on the links.
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