and prestigious Prague Academy of Art Architecture and Design, where he earned his Master's Degree in Sculpture
and Industrial Design.
Alex Kveton was privy technical and artistic views of the world from the beginning of his life. While his father taught him the ageless techniques of wood and metal craft, his mother opened his eyes to the possibilities of artistic imagination.
As a young adult, Alex Kveton enrolled in the Technical School of Machinery Construction and later,
following his inner calling into a very selective
and prestigious Prague Academy of Art Architecture and Design, where he earned his Master's Degree in Sculpture
and Industrial Design.
At the Academy, his appreciation for the potential of metal continued to grow as he created stainless steel and bronze sculpture and designed industrial equipment ranging from gigantic open coalmine excavator to miniature alarm clock. The ageless beauty and serenity of Prague with its centuries old art and architecture fed Alex's effervescent imagination and pushed him toward a more artistic use of his creative abilities. Instead of more common casting and assembly of ready made parts, Alex preferred fabricating process, physically shaping and forming a sharp flat sheet of metal into sophisticated curvilinear form. To reflect a true poetry of the form, Alex Kveton enhances the character of stainless steel sculptures with high mirror finish and bronze with magnificent color patinas.
Having established himself as a mature sculptor in his native Czechoslovakia,
Alex Kveton left his homeland and traveled to Austria where he created several successful large scale sculptural commissions.
Upon his arrival to the United States, Alex settled in New York City and began
a challenging and successful career as a Director of Art Division at one of the leading art
and architectural metal fabricators in the United States.
For over thirty years, Alex Kveton has applied his knowledge, expertise, and talent to transform vision into reality. Following his inspiration, Alex created fine metal sculptures shown in numerous group and individual exhibitions and privately held in collections in North America, Europe and Russia. His sculpture of Porcupine Caribou, a corten steel ten foot tall structure, is on permanent display at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.
Bernard Venet, Robert Indiana, Larry Bell and John Raimondi are just some of a few renowned
artists Alex has worked with.
He shares a patent for AlgoRytm Technologies with Dr.
Haresh Lalvani, an architect-morphologist, inventor of curvilinear structures. A
lex transformed Dr.Lalvani's theories into 3-D ethereal metallic creations that have started
a revolution in modern architecture.
Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibits in its
permanent collection of Architecture and Design "Titanium AlgoRythms Columns" designed
and coauthored by Alex Kveton.
So what inspires Alex Kveton? Nature in its simplicity and beauty. Nature with its magnificent structures and creations no one is able to imitate. Alex is the first one to admit that he cannot compete with nature in creating something so fascinating and delicate as a leaf of a tree or dew on grass. But with his work, Alex has been able to make magic in metal, crafting his very own brand of beauty, his very own way of taking where the nature left off and finishing the job in his mind and with his hands, creating something very simple, very beautiful, very magical just like the nature would have intended.
2011
- RVS Fine Art, Southampton, NY (2 person show)
- Boscobel Gardens, Cold Spring, NY
- John Raimondi Gallery, Rockport, MA
2010
- 721 Gallery, Kingston, NY
- Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY
- OPUS 40, Saugerties, NY
- Kiersted Historic House, Saugerties, NY
- Doghouse Gallery, Saugerties, NY (solo)
- Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY
- Clove Church Gallery & Garden, Saugerties, NY
- Oriole 9, Woodstock, NY (2 person show)
- Artefact Gallery, Lake Worth, FL
- Kleinert Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2009
- Towbin Museum, Woodstock, NY
- Onessimo Fine Art, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
- OPUS 40 Gallery, Saugerties, NY
- RVS Gallery, Southampton, NY
- Merz Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
- Union Mills Gallery, Catskill, NY
- WAAM, Woodstock, NY ("best in show")
2008
- The Spot Gallery, Art Basel Miami, FL
- Ed Chasen Gallery, Washington DC
- Michael Nelson Gallery, Saugerties, NY
- The National Art Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY(Henry Cooper Memorial Prize; "Best in Sculpture")
- Woodstock Art Association & Museum, NY (solo)
- Kleinert Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2007
- Lurie Fine Art, Miami, FL
- WAAM, Woodstock, NY
- Catskills Gallery, Saugerties NY
- OPUS 40 Gallery, Saugerties, NY
- RVS Gallery, Southampton, NY
- A-Forest Gallery, New York, NY
2006
- Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT
- Chasen Galleries, Charlotte, NC
- Gallery Du Soleil, Tarrytown, NY
- WAAM -Woodstock Art Assoc. & Museum, NY (award; "Best in a show")
- RVS Fine Art, Southampton, NY (solo)
2005
- Chasen Galleries of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
- Trowbridge-Lewis Galleries, Middleburg, VA
- RVS Fine Art, Southampton, NY
2003
- Hudson Gallery West, Hoboken, NJ (solo)
1999 - 1976
- Czech Center Gallery, NYC, NY 1999 (solo)
- Schulte Gallery, Milburn, NJ 1995
- Alten Herrenhause and Gallery, Kilb, Austria 1982 (solo)
- Raiffeisen Bank, St. Polten, Austria 1982 (solo)
- Museum Of Art, Ostrava, Czech Republic 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976
- Czech Sculptors Associates, Czech Republic 1980, 1978, 1976
- Gallery Dilo, Prague, Czech Republic 1979
- Gallery Dilo, Ostrava, Czech Republic 1978
- "Young Artists and Industry", Vitkovice Steel, Ostrava, Czech Republic 1977, 1976
- "Artists of Moravian Region", Olomouc, Czech Republic 1976
- "Young Artists in Prague", Prague, Czech Republic 1975, 1974