A IL E E N O S B O R N W E B B A W A R D S
Left:
Gyongy Laky
Domain Change
, 2009,
wood, paint, various
screws {h. 42 in, w. 25 in,
d.
6V2
in}.
Right:
Gyongy Laky
Dada,
2007,
plastic babies,
{h. 36 in, w. 32 in,
d. 1
V2
In}.
Bottom:
Wendy Maruyama
Vanity,
2005, pau ferro,
silk, jade and video cre-
ated by Maruyama using
Final Cut Pro.
Fellow
Wendy
Maruyama
A love of nature, architecture,
language and the history of fiber
art have shaped the work of
Hungarian-born Gyongy Laky
(1944), who lives in San Fran-
cisco. The primary material for
her constructions, which often
form words or convey political
messages, has been twigs,
“among the most beautiful lin-
ear elements in existence,” she
says. Laky holds a b .a . and an
m .a .
from the University of
California, Berkeley, where
fiber art pioneer Ed Rossbach
was a mentor, and she is profes-
sor emerita at University of Cali-
fornia, Davis, where she taught
fiber art and environmental de-
sign for 30 years. Laky’s works
are at home inside the museum
or gallery, but in particular out-
doors, in meadows and hillsides
in the u.s. and Europe, a testa-
ment to her endless experimen-
tation. Exterior installations,
she says, “stretch my mind,
abilities, ideas, everything.”
Innovative, expressive and pro-
vocative, Wendy Maruyama
(b. 1952) heads the woodwork -
ing/furniture design program
at San Diego State University,
her undergraduate alma mater,
where she has taught since 1989.
Previously, she held the same
position at California College of
Arts and Crafts. Maruyama has
an M .F.A. from Rochester Insti-
tute of Technology and is the
recipient of a Fulbright Grant
to England and travel grants to
France and Japan, visits abroad
that provided her with sources
of inspiration. “Her distinctive
work,” Robert Long once
wrote, “sparks the imagination
of students, collectors and
fellow makers.” Profoundly
swayed by her family’s experi-
ence, her new work,
Executive
Order9066,
refers to the intern-
ment of Japanese-Americans
during World War II.
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www.freedowns.net & www.journal-plaiza.net
Domain Change
photo/M. Lee Fatherree,
Dada
photo/Ben Blackwell, Maruyama photo/Dean Powell.
