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Gyöngy Laky
Textiles Lecture Series
Wednesday, April 19, 7 pm
5301 Broadway, Oakland campus
Info: 510.594.3747
Gyöngy Laky is a San Francisco sculptor, political activist, and professor emerita at the University of California, Davis. Laky is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and was one of the first textile artists to be commissioned by the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program. She completed undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1973, she founded the internationally acclaimed Fiberworks, Center for the Textile Arts in Berkeley. Laky's work is in numerous permanent collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Built simply from humble materials such as orchard debris, park trimmings, and street tree prunings, Laky's sculptural improvisations conceptually address environmental issues of use, overuse, and sustainability.
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