Gyöngy Laky
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Beacon Management Corp., Boston, MA
Blackside Inc., Boston, MA
Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland
Contemporary Art Society of London, England, UK
The Contemporary Museum, Honoluly, HI
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington DC
Saks Fifth Avenue, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Scott Foresman and Co., Sunnyvale, CA
Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
The Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine WI
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2004 11th International Triennial of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles,
Lodz, Poland
Nature Transformed, Sean M. Ulmer, Editor, University of Michigan Museum
of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Oral History: Gyöngy Laky, Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley, CA
2003 13th Rassegna d’Arte Tessile Contemporanea, Ex Chiesa San Francisco,
Como, Italy
Fiber Art: Visual Thinking and the Intelligent Hand, Gyöngy Laky Oral
History,
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA. 2003.
Celebrating Nature, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA. 2004.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gyöngy Laky, San Francisco sculptor, is a professor at the University of California, Davis, where she has been on the faculty for over 27 years.
Laky studied at U.C. Berkeley completing undergraduate studies in 1970 and graduate studies in 1971. Postgraduate work followed with the U.C. Professional Studies in India Program. Upon her return to the U.S., she founded the internationally known Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts in Berkeley, where she established accredited undergraduate and graduate programs.
At the 11th International Triennial of Tapestry in Poland this spring,
she was awarded special distinction for her sculpture, Globalization.
It was constructed of twigs fastened with aluminum screws to form
the letters "W" "A" "R" (...interpretation
open!) and was acquired for the Central Museum of Textiles' permanent
collection. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally.
She is one of a team of three who recently developed a comprehensive
Arts Master Plan for the new state-of -the-art, 130 acre, Federal
Food and Drug Administration campus being built in Maryland
The Smithsonian Institution is currently assembling
a collection of her personal papers, photographs and
documents for the Archives of American Art.