Gyöngy Laky
Born: 1944, Budapest, Hungary
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101L ALTERATIONS
apple, grapevine, nails, wire, 58" x 68" x 3" 2008
$26,000
97L Globalization IV: Collateral Damage
ash, commercial wood, paint, blue concrete bullets
32Óx 97Óx 4Ó, 2005
Call
99L CRADLE TO CRADLE
apple, commercial wood, screws
16 x 30Ó x 30Ó, 2007
$17,000
102L ESTUARY
apple, water-based ink,
backer-board screws
35Ó x 34Ó x 3.5Ó, 2007
$12,000
(ON HOLD)
Photo: Ben Blackwell.
Selected collections and exhibition venues:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Oakland Museum, California; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C; Lausanne, Switzerland, (International Biennials of Tapestry); Savaria Art Museum, Szombathely, Hungary, (International Biennials of Miniature Textiles); Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; The Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina; Royal Institute of British Architects Gallery, Manchester, UK (solo exhibition); Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland (11th International Triennial of Tapestry); Bellevue Art Museum, Washington (Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection, traveling exhibition); Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin (Basketworks: The Cotsen Contemporary American Basket Collection); Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (From Lausanne to Beijing, International Fiber Art Biennial). Fellow: American Craft Council. AWARDS: Gyöngy Laky's work, GO And... has been selected for the Federal Art-in-Embassies Program as part of a two-year exhibition, "Art Across the Atlantic," at NATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder's official residence, Truman Hall, in Brussels.
In June, Type Directors Club (TDC 55) selected Gyöngy Laky's lettering for the New York Times Magazine, "The Green Issue," (April 2008) for a citation, their annual exhibition and Typography 30, This year’s competition saw a total of 1733 entries from 33 countries: of the total, 957 (55%) from the U.S. and 776 (45%) from other countries. Total work selected included 215 from 21 countries.
28L THAT WORD
orchard prunnings, 8Õ(h) x 4Õ x 13Õ, 1989. , (from 14th Biennale Lausanne. 1989), $75,000
photo by Georg Rehsteiner
New York Times Magazine
April 20, 2008
Lettering by Gyšngy Laky
THE GREEN ISSUE: Some Bold Steps to Make Your Carbon Footprint Smaller
pages 45-75
TO SEE MORE LETTERS AND AND A VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH LAKY ON THE NEW YORK TIMES SITE, click here.
American Craft Magazine
April/May 2009
CONSTRUCTING THE UNEXPECTED:Gyöngy Laky
Mija Riedel
pages 6, 14, 54-61
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/04/17/arts/20090418-sofa-slideshow_7.html
Catalog #5
LEON NIEHEUS
/ GY…NGY LAKY
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GY…NGY LAKY
/ REBECCA MEDEL
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10TH WAVE PART 1:
New Baskets and
Freestanding Sculpture
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10TH WAVE PART II:
New Textiles and
Fiber Wall Art
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ART OF SUBSTANCE
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Catalog #31
WIRED:
Fiber-Optic Weavings and Wire Sculpture
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Catalog #34
10TH WAVE III:
Art Textileand Fiber Sculpture
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Book #04
Contemporary
International
Basketmaking
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The Art of Basketry
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Portfolio Colection
Gyongy Laky
click for more informationBook #28
The Grotta House
by Richard Meier
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Video #V09o/VHS
Contemporary Fiber Artist:
GY…NGY LAKY
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Contemporary American
Fiber Artists:
TEN MAKERS
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Tom Grotta
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