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Lawrence Argent – Faculty Triennial 2012

Above: pieces by Lawrence Argent It’s impossible to stroll around downtown Denver without bumping into the work of DU sculpture professor Lawrence Argent. After all, Argent is the artist behind Denver’s famous blue bear – properly titled I See What You Mean. On the DU campus, Argent’s Whispers celebrates the open pursuit of learning through lecture, debate, and dialogue. Based on 3D digital scans of the faces of several students in Argent’s classes, its over-sized limestone and bronze lips appear closed and mute. As one approaches the sculpture, however, voices of actual lectures and public events on campus emerge softly from concealed audio...

06January2012December 3, 2019
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Susan Meyer – Faculty Triennial 2012

  Susan Meyer is a lecturer in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver. Through complex sculptural installations, she creates fanciful habitats from materials, such as acrylic, steel rods, aluminum and wood. These environments, suggestive of architectural models, are inhabited by scale models of the human form, which are shown interacting with other figures or alone in an apparent state of boredom. By creating this laser-cut models based upon digital drawings, Meyer explores the themes of tensions between the communal ideal and individual concerns as well as the stress between nature and human constructions. She...

04January2012December 3, 2019
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Jessie Paige – Faculty Triennial 2012

Paige writes: As an artist, it is my compulsion to express what seizes my thoughts. I am concerned/consumed with the human condition: how we relate, how we live, and the beautiful complexities that are intrinsic to life. I make photographs to understand the world in which I live – both the internal and the external – and to find answers to questions all the while discovering more questions to ask. Recently, after having lived through an extended period of great personal loss, two children have delightfully entered into my life and I have been asking myself, “What is family? What...

02January2012December 3, 2019
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Lauren Mayer – Faculty Triennial 2012

Above: Lauren Mayer, “There is no room for me to rest in a thief” In much of Lauren’s work, she explores memory, trace, and metaphor through furniture, as can be seen in the piece for this year’s Triennial, “There is no room for me to rest in a thief,” a chair made of porcelain. In her newest work, she has been exploring the realtionship between furniture and the body. Mayer writes: “I am intrigued by the routines and habits that surround the things with which we live and how those routines are cerebrally and tactilely manifest in the real and made...

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Mia Mulvey – Faculty Triennial 2012

Above: Mia Mulvey, Sylvae, 2012 Faculty Triennial Installation View Mia Mulvey received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Denver. Her ceramic sculptures are influenced by the intersection between art and science, its history, advancements, and tools, continually inspire her. Mulvey writes: While technique is not the main focus of my work, ceramic’s material qualities, associations, histories and craftsmanship all support my aesthetic and concepts. The challenge of creating something precise, perfect, and beautiful from a soft, raw material is a process I enjoy quite a bit. I am excited by the...

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Timothy Weaver – Faculty Triennial 2012

Timothy Weaver is a new media artist whose work is directly related to life sciences and what he calls “ecological memory.” In his work “Hylaea: Campephilus,” he explores the lost ecological memory of the Campephilus bird, a sacred species whose endangered future is tied to that of the American forests. “Hylaea” refers to the mythical lost forests of ancient Greece, as well as to Humboldt’s exploration of the forests of America. The work is a compilation of large-scale prints, videos and ambient sound from the bird’s lost habitat. Timothy speaks of the “residues of extinction” and working with DNA imaging...