Artist Gyöngy Laky will discuss her extraordinary personal story and her innovative art-making process providing insight into her studio practice, activism and life philosophy, which champions sustainable art and design, original thinking, and the value of the unexpected. Her illustrated talk will conclude with a video of her creative process.

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Laky’s life experiences as an immigrant and artist have just been published in a 328 page book, Gyöngy Laky, Screwing with Order, assembled art, actions and art practice.  

Born amid the bombings of World War II, Laky escaped from post-war, Soviet-dominated Hungary; was sponsored by a family in Ohio; went to grade school in Oklahoma; eventually settled in Carmel and went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley. She followed this with a nearly 30-year tenure as a professor at the University of California, Davis.

Laky will discuss her extraordinary personal story and her innovative art-making process  providing insight into her studio practice, activism, and life philosophy, which champions sustainable art and design, original thinking, and the value of the unexpected.  Her imaginative sculptural artworks are in many private and public collections. Laky’s adventurous panoply of art-making has also taken her outdoors to create occasional temporary land art and site-specific works — most recently two in Italy.