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Links to the works of
Gyöngy Laky online. Her sculptural work often features orchard prunings, park
debris, and other natural materials that are screwed, doweled or bolted together
to form constructions that have metaphoric overtones reflecting on environmental
and gender issues.
Gyöngy Laky.com
Portfolio
presentation includes a photo gallery, bio,
artists statement, professional activities, publications, quotes, exhibitions,
installations and contact information.
Apricot
Orb
Gyöngy speaks of being
mentored by fiber great Ed Rossbach in this essay from the American Textile
History Museum's exhibition entitled Generations/Transformations: American Fiber
Art.
Artist Gyöngy Laky Goes Modern in North Beach
The San Francisco Chronicle profiles the home and studio of this
environmentalist and artist with a
photo gallery tour.
NEW WORKS BY VETERAN TEXTILE SCULPTOR GYÖNGY LAKY
FiberArts Magazine November 2006 cover article by Jennifer Kimball.
Fiberscene
Artist statement (1999), biographical information and several images of the work of
this San Francisco textile sculptor and Emeritus Professor at the University of
California, Davis. Includes images of her works, EXILE (1999), IN THE CROWD
(1999) and TYPICAL APPLICATION (1999).
Gyöngy
Laky, Braunstein/Quay Gallery
Artist biography, archived exhibits
Lines of the Terrain | September 8 - October 9, 2004
Gyöngy
Laky | September 6 - October 6, 2007
Gyöngy
Laky, Distinguished Alumna Award
The College of
Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley granted Gyöngy
this award given annually to recognize
outstanding accomplishment.
Gyöngy
Laky - Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis
Chaired the Department of Art in the years prior to her retirement from teaching
in 2005.
Spike
Vessel created by Gyöngy Laky in 1998 from apple prunings doweled
with vinyl-coated nails is now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian
American Art Museum.
Women Environmental
Artists Directory
View the listing for Gyongy Laky in this directory for women arts professionals
concerned with environmental issues. Includes images of YES.
Desert Edge
SURVEY FIBER 2002 - Curated by Bruce Hoffman at Snyderman-Works Galleries,
Philadelphia. Vessel created by Gyöngy Laky of
Eucalyptus Prunings w/Deck Screws, 9” x 19” x 19”, 2001.
Interview with Gyonky Laky
Slide show of her work and interview as the University of California, Davis
Women's Center Woman of the Quarter, Fall 2004.
Protest in Prunings
UC Davis Professor Emerita Gyöngy Laky (pronounced "JINGE (as in singe) LOCK-ee")
exhibit.
The Difficult Subjects of W: War-Waste-Want-Women (2006), at the Nelson
Gallery. Includes a
slide
show of images of her work.
The Difficult Subjects of W: War-Waste-Want-Women
Archive of exhibit at the Nelson Gallery January 5, 2006 - March 19th, 2006.
Includes image of "Linkage" made with: Manzanita, magic marker, bullets for
building.
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