ARTISTS STATEMENTMy inspiration comes from studying the nature around us. The intricate structure of a leaf, robustness of grass wind blowingthrough an open window, or moon reflecting in the water, all create the logical harmony of our nature’s “building blocks”. Thenature is pure, clean, and precious in its own creation. Such insights are on my mind when creating sculptures. Elegant,intended to enrich, decorate and above all distinguish the space as beautiful flowers or morning sunlight would. In figurativesculptural work I incorporate into my abstract vision a timeless beauty of a human form. It is obviously the most loaded of allforms because we live in one. In addition to sculptures, my paintings and relief prints bridge the gap between 2 and 3dimensions and explore the visual relationship between the two artistic arenas..​BIOGRAPHYFrom the beginning of his life Alex was privy to both, technical and artistic views of the world. While his father taught him theageless techniques of wood and metal craft, his mother opened his eyes to the possibilities of artistic imagination. Alexstudied at the Technical School of Machinery Construction and received his Master Degree in Sculpture and IndustrialDesign from a very selective and prestigious Academy of Arts Architecture and Design Prague, Czech Republic.Alex Kveton’s work has been widely exhibited and can be found in permanent collection of Czech National Gallery inPrague, Museum of Art Ostrava Czech Republic, MoMA New York City, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum inAtlanta, GA and in numerous private and corporate collections in Europe, USA, South America, Canada and Russia. Hiswork has received many awards and he shares a US patent for AlgoRytm Technologies, a non-deformational bending ofmaterial. He currently lives and works in Saugerties, NY with his wife Barbara. EDUCATION-Technical school of Mechanical Engineering, Ostrava, Czech Republic- Academy of Arts Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic – Master DegreeINSTALLATIONS & COLLECTIONS- Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (series of titanium columns)- National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic- Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Atlanta, GA (“Porcupine Caribou”)- Catskills Garden Club, Catskills, NY ("Winter Flower)- Raiffeisen Bank, St.Polten, Austria (“Fountain”)- Chamber of Commerce, Tarrytown, NY (“Headless Horseman” design & artist proof)- Lechner Food Chain, Austria (“Bronze relief & Sign”)- Castle Restaurant, Opava, Czech Republic (“Bronze sculpture”)- City Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic (“Fountain”)- Vitkovice Steel, Czech Republic (“Man of Steel” -sculpture series)- Bohumin Steel, Czech Republic (“Award Medals”)- Department store, Ostrava, Czech Republic (“Relief”)- Executive office of Garment Factory, Fridek-Mistek, Czech Republic (Relief series)- Vitkovice Steel, Czech Republic (“Entrance Wall Relief”)- Shopping Center, Ostrava, Czech Republic (“Sundial”)- High School, Karvina, Czech Republic (“Spring Blossom”)- North Moravian Power Plant, Czech Republic (“Wall Relief”)- Vitkovice Steel, Czech Republic (“Open Coal Mine Excavator“-design) PRIVATE COLLECTIONSUSA, South America, Canada, UK, Germany, Russia, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovakia.GRANTS & AWARDS- United States Patent 6,640,605 B2, coauthor, Non-deformational bending of metal- American Art Awards, 2016, Winner in Sculpture Category- New York Foundation for the Art, Grand- Marry O Fritchie Art Show, Best in Sculpture- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Best in Show- Cambridge Who’s Who, Life time Membership- Marry O Fritchie Art Show, Best in Sculpture- Woodstock Artists Ass. & Museum, The People’s Choice Award- Cooperstown Art Association, National Exhibition, Best in Sculpture- Artist Talk on Art, Annual Competion Curator’s ChoicePUBLICATIONSFlorida Design Magazine – Vol 26 #4, 2016Florida Design Magazine – „On The Waterfront“, Vol 25 #3, 2015Florida Design Magazine –“Elegant Ingenuity“, Vol 21#4, 2011Almanac Weekly, NY- “Saugerties Studio Tour“, August 2011Saugerties Times- “Man, Motion, Meaning” , August 2011The Daily Mail- “A Winterflower grows”, November 2011Florida Design Magazine, Vol 18#2, 2008The Daily Mail, Catskill, NY- “Leggio Park aims for uplift”, October 2010Interior & Design Magazine, Russia –“Golden Logic“, October 2010Saugerties Times- “Saugerties Art a GO GO”, July 2008Art Times- “Culturaly Speaking“, April 2008Washington Spaces- “Turning Passion into business”, Fall 2005Metropolis Magazine- “Bend the rules of Structures”, June 2003Queens Botanical Garden News-“New Tree Gate Sculpture”, Summer 2002Staten Island Advance –“From suitcase to success“, 1998Atelier, SCVU -“Vedi, co je ceka...?“, 1989