Tinka Jordys sculpture

TINKA JORDY

Tinka Jordy has been working as a professional artist for 32 years and her work is exhibited and collected internationally. Tinka received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977 after attending Cleveland Institute of Art and the Kansas City Art Institute.

Tinka has also worked as designer and has won numerous awards for product design.

Some of the most recent installations of Tinkas work include a public commission for the city of Oxford Mississippi. Tinka was honored to receive a commission for a 7’ figurative Bronze Sculpture. The piece was sculpted in clay at her studio in North Carolina and cast in bronze. The finished bronze was installed August, 2009 in Memorial Park, Oxford Mississippi.

Tinka was also honored recently at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens 21st Annual Sculpture Invitational. Jurors distinguished her figurative stoneware sculpture ‘Balance’ by giving the work the ‘Best in Show’ award.

Tinka's next one person gallery show will be at the Carol Robinson Gallery in New Orleans, with an opening reception on March 6, 2010. The Carol Robinson Gallery has been representing Tinka's work for 26 years.

Recent exhibitions include:

Upcoming Solo Show, Carol Robinson Gallery March 2010

The North Carolina Botanical Gardens 21st Annual Sculpture in the Garden Invitational

Solo Show, Alamance County Arts Council 2009

The Womens Center Invitational 2009

Cedar Creek Gallery, Spring Sculpture Show 2008

1150 Fleming Rd Creedmoor NC

Carol Robinson Gallery
840 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA.
March 1st thru March 29th 2008
Solo Sculpture Show "Looking Toward Spring"

Solo Sculpture Show, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC Febuary 2007

Fayetteville Museum of Art 35th Annual Juried Exhibition March 2007

Solo Sculpture Show titled " A Sense of Place" at Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA. October, 2006.

Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts, Winter Invitational, December, 2006, Greensboro, NC

Solo Sculpture Exhibition at the Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC February 2007

Other recent exhibitions include...

A Solo Sculpture Show titled "Lighting of The Fire" at Cedar Creek Gallery April 2006.

A Sculpture Invatational at Alamance County Art's Council, Graham, NC June 2006

Garden Art Gallery's Fifteenth Annual Sculpture Invitational, May 2nd and 3rd, 2009

The Caldwell Arts Councils 17th Annual Sculpture Celebration

The North Carolina Botanical Gardens Annual Sculpture in the Garden Invitational
The Women's Center 19th Annual Juried Exhibition.
"Through Women's Eyes by Women's Hands"
The Fayetteville Museum of Art's Thirty First Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists Exhibition
Garden Art Galleries Eleventh Annual Art In the Garden Sculpture Invitational, May 2005
Cedar Creek Gallery, Triangle Treasures, 21 Premier Artists of the Triangle Area

Ms Jordy's exhibitions include participation in the China Foshan International Ceramics Conference, October, 2002:
Contemporary Ceramic Art and Design in the Global Village
Prominent artists worldwide were invited to create new works in a spirit of artistic and cultural exchange of ideas and techniques.
Tinka Jordy's Sculpture "Woman with Children" was selected for the Permanent Collection of the Shiwan Ceramic Museum Shiwan, China.

Selected sponsors of the conference include:
Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
The Peoples Government of Foshan International Academy of Ceramics
Institute of Interior Design of Architectural Society of China
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

Sorrow Averted

60 "H

Counsel Counsel

24X36"

	'Facing Forward' 40"x20"x24"

Going Home

Sculpture of two men, one man is speaking to the second man there is a feeling of deep emotion

'Lost In The Storm'

15"x36"x30"

'Autumn'.

Listen In

'Listening In'

60" H

'Head in Hands'

Women with Children "OPEN"

15"x30"

2009 Completed Bronze Commission

for the City Of Oxford MS

Dedicated to the Untimely Death of Youth

Lifesize

Listen In

Women with Children Detail

Bronze Llama Sculpture

Bronze Llama

"A DELIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE..."
"... "This exhibition is about the combination of art and nature, about materials that will withstand rain and sun and about sharing your collection with those who walk or ride by".

Blue Greenberg Art critic DURHAM HERALD SUN
Review of The City Gardeners Sculpture Invitational

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PO BOX 16772 CHAPEL HILL, NC. 27516
TEL: 919-968-2115

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