About the Artist
Amy Ordoveza is a contemporary realist artist who creates detailed, imaginative still-life paintings. She carefully crafts and arranges the delicate cut-paper plants, animals, and architectural elements that she depicts in her oil paintings. The fragility of the paper objects suggests impermanence while Ordoveza’s close observation and meticulous handling of paint hint at their significance. Her compositions evoke a sense of beauty and mystery in ordinary surroundings.
Ordoveza received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art and her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her historical influences include 17th century Dutch still life painters including Rachel Ruysch and Jan Davidsz de Heem as well as surrealists such as Kay Sage and René Magritte. Ordoveza’s work is included in the Lunar Codex and the Nova Scotia Art Bank and has been featured in publications and websites including American Art Collector, Poets and Artists, and Booooooom!
Selected Exhibitions
2024: Pres-shrunk 2024, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2023: Context Art Miami, 33 Contemporary Booth A31, Miami, Florida; Surreal For Real, 33 Contemporary, Online Exhibition; Mo(u)rning, 33 Contemporary, Online Exhibition; Pre-shrunk 2023, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2022: Presence and Absence, 33 Contemporary, Online Exhibition; Nova Scotia Art Bank Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Get-a-Round, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Pre-shrunk 2022, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2021: The Blue Review Art Prize Online Exhibition, Sugarlift Gallery, New York, New York; 31st Annual Holiday Miniatures Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado; Holiday Show, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Art in the Time of Covid, First Baptist Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Curves, 33 Contemporary, Online Exhibition; Florals, 33 Contemporary, Online Exhibition; Get Outta Town, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Valentine's Miniature Show, 33 Contemporary, Online Exhibition; Pre-shrunk 2021, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2020: Pre-shrunk 2020, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Shelter, 33 Contemporary, Online exhibition; Birds for Sofia, Sugarlift Gallery, New York, New York; New Works, Argyle Fine Art; Ethereal Epiphany, 33 Contemporary, Online exhibition, 30th Annual Holiday Miniatures Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado.
2019: Recollected in Tranquility, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Pre-Shrunk 2019, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Holiday Exhibition, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2018: Society of Canadian Artists 50th Open International Exhibition, Todmorden Mills Papermill Gallery, Toronto, Ontario; Small Treasures, Iverness County Centre for the Arts, Iverness, Nova Scotia; Hands Dancing, Iverness County Centre for the Arts, Iverness, Nova Scotia
2017: Artist-Teacher, Fairfax County Art Teachers’ Exhibit, Lorton Workhouse Arts Center; Lorton, Virginia
2015: All Alumni AANYAA Exhibition, Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery and Bernardsville Public Library, Bernardsville, NJ; Scapes, Art League Gallery, Torpedo Factory Arts Center; Alexandria, Virginia Artist-Teacher, Fairfax County Art Teachers’ Exhibit, Lorton Workhouse Arts Center; Lorton, Virginia
2014: Small Works, Art League Gallery, Torpedo Factory Arts Center; Alexandria, Virginia, Second place award, Artist-Teacher, Fairfax County Art Teachers’ Exhibit, Lorton Workhouse Arts Center; Lorton, Virginia
2013: Single Fare 3, RH Gallery, New York, New York; All Media Membership Show, Art League Gallery, Torpedo Factory Arts Center; Alexandria, Virginia, Instruct(art), Fairfax County Artist-Teacher Exhibit, Lorton Workhouse Arts Center; Lorton, Virginia
2012: 5×5(5), Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Arts Center; Alexandria, Virginia
2011: Arlington Adult Education Instructors’ Show, Central Library, Arlington, Virginia
2010: Paintings and Drawings, solo show, Shirlington Library, Arlington, Virginia
2009: Arlington Adult Education Instructors’ Show, Central Library, Arlington, Virginia; Scapes, Art League Gallery, Torpedo Factory Arts Center; Alexandria, Virginia; Artomatic, Washington, DC
2008: 5×5, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Arts Center; Alexandria, Virginia; All Arlington Salon, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia, 15 x 15: Annual Alumni Small Work Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2007: Draw, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas; Stolen Space Gallery, London, England
2006: Take Home a Nude, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, New York, Master of Fine Arts Diploma Exhibition, The New York Academy of Art, New York, New York, 29th Annual NYU Small Works Show, Washington Square East Galleries, New York, New York
2005: Square Foot IV, Project Spaceman, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York; Celebrating Excellence, The Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, New Jersey and the Union County Freeholders’ Gallery, Elizabeth, New Jersey; 15 x 15; Annual Alumni Small Work Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; The Sixteenth Annual New Jersey Small Works Show, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, New Jersey
2004: Celebrating Excellence, The Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, New Jersey and the Union County Freeholders’ Gallery, Elizabeth, New Jersey; Maryland Institute College of Art Commencement Exhibition, Baltimore, Maryland; Paintings and Drawings, solo show, Central Presbyterian Church, Towson, Maryland
2003: What’s Around Us: Contemporary Landscape and Cityscape, Sheppard Art Gallery, Ellicott City, Maryland; Celebrating Excellence, The Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, New Jersey and the Union County Freeholders’ Gallery, Elizabeth, New Jersey; Koinonia Christian Fellowship Group Show, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Collections
The Lunar Codex https://www.lunarcodex.com/gallery-a
https://www.lunarcodex.com/gallery-b
The Nova Scotia Art Bank
Publications and Online Features
American Art Collector, April 2023, A Quiet Stillness, pp. 90-93
Quiet Art Book,designed by Jeff Hamada, published by Booooooom!, 2022, pp. 48 - 51
Poets and Artists, Issue 108, January 2020. Paintings are featured in the articles Contemporary Coded Messages by Melissa Hefferlin and The Tie that Binds by Elizabeth Barden.
Booooooom! : Artist Spotlight: Amy Ordoveza, January 10, 2024: https://www.booooooom.com/2024/01/10/artist-spotlight-amy-ordoveza-2/
Booooooom! : Artist Spotlight: Amy Ordoveza, June 17, 2019: https://www.booooooom.com/2024/01/10/artist-spotlight-amy-ordoveza-2/
Education
2013 Master of Arts in Teaching in Art Education, George Mason University.
2006 Master of Fine Arts in Painting, The New York Academy of Art.
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art.