Renowned American textile artist and sculptor Gyöngy Laky (b. 1944) was once described as a
wood whisperer. Her highly individual puzzle-like assemblages of timber and textiles helped to
significantly propel the growth of the contemporary fiber-arts movement. Laky's art traverses
an extraordinary personal story: Born amid the bombings of World War II she escaped from
post-war Soviet-dominated Hungary a sponsorship from a family in Ohio grade school in
Oklahoma and a course of study at the University of California Berkeley followed before
founding Fiberworks Center for Textile Arts in the 1970s and fostering innovations as a
professor at the University of California Davis. The publication Screwing with Order provides
insight into her studio practice activism and teaching philosophy which champions
sustainable art and design original thinking and the value of the unexpected.
