Tinka Jordys sculpture

TINKA JORDY

Tinka Jordy has been working as a professional artist for 35 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 is a board member of the Hillsborough Arts Council and served as the chair from 2007 to 2010.

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

Recent installations of Tinka's sculpture 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.

Carol Robinson Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been representing Tinka's work for 29 years. There will be a solo exhibition of Tinka Jordy's sculpture during the annual city-wide 'Art for Art Sake' event in New Orleans at Carol Robinson Gallery October, 2012.

Recent exhibitions include:

'Animals We Keep' invitational exhibition Eno Gallery Hillsborough, NC. March, 2011

'Seventeenth Annual Sculpture Invitational' Garden Art Gallery, May 2011

Sandhills Horticultural Society Sculpture Invitational exhibition, Pinehurst, NC. - March 2011

'Contemporary Figurative Ceramics' The Barton Art Gallery, October 3 November 4, 2010 - featured artist.

'2010 North Carolina Clay Invitational' The Frank Gallery Chapel Hill, NC. Sept 10 - Oct 24, 2010.

'22nd Annual Sculpture in the Garden invitational', The North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 'Merit Award'

Solo Exhibition, Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, La. March 2010

Solo Show, Alamance County Arts Council 2009

The Women's Center Invitational 2009

'21st Annual Sculpture in the Garden Invitational',The North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 'Best in Show Award'

Cedar Creek Gallery, Spring Sculpture Show 2008

Solo Sculpture Show Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA March 2008

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

35th Annual Juried Exhibition, Fayetteville Museum of Art, March 2007

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

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

Solo Sculpture Exhibition, The Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC February 2007

'Lighting of The Fire' Solo Sculpture Show Cedar Creek Gallery, April 2006.

'Alamance Art Council Sculpture Invitational' Alamance Art's Council, Graham, NC June 2006

'Fifteenth Annual Sculpture Invitational' Garden Art Gallery, May 2009

'17th Annual Sculpture Celebration' The Caldwell Arts Council

The North Carolina Botanical Gardens Annual Sculpture in the Garden Invitational
'Through Women's Eyes by Women's Hands' 19th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Women's Center
'Thirty First Annual competition for North Carolina Artists Exhibition' The Fayetteville Museum of Art
Eleventh Annual Art In the Garden Sculpture Invitational, Garden Art Gallery, May 2005
'Triangle Treasures, 21 Premier Artists of the Triangle' Cedar Creek Gallery
Tinka Jordy is represented by:
Carol Robinson Gallery New Orleans, Louisiana.
Eno Gallery Hillsborough, North Carolina

"Considering that works in this extraordinary exhibition focus on the human figure, it is no surprise that many of the artists present questions concerning human existence or are engaged in a search for spirituality. In the company of these artists, evaluating aspects of life in general, are those illustrating the stories of humanity as a culture." Tinka Jordy, from Chapel Hill, uses everyday imagery as a visual stimulus to illustrate stories and personal dreams. "I attempt to reach a more subconscious level that will hopefully pass thru my personal journey to the universal core",said Jordy. "It is this core that connects us all."

Review of Barton Art Gallery exhibition 'Contemporary Figurative Ceramics' October 2010

"Striking and noteworthy... Jordy's Exhibit is an impressive,uplifting one,catering to popular taste while adroitly avoiding cloying or obvious sentiments"

Roger Green, Art Critic New Orleans Times-Picayune solo sculpture show at Carol Robinson Gallery.

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 Government of Foshan International Academy of Ceramics
Institute of Interior Design of Architectural Society of China
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

A partial listing of Jordy's currently available work can be found here

Below is a partial listing of selected collected sculpture:

	'Sorrow Averted'

	'Listen'

	'Facing Forward'

	'Going Home'

	'Lost in the Storm'

	'Autumn'

'Listening In'

5 foot tall

	'Head in Hand'

	'Open'

blank space

2009 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

Information about Garden Art Gallery can be found at the Garden Art Gallery website.

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TINKA JORDY

'Sorrow Averted'

'Listen'

'Facing Forward'

'Going Home'

'Lost in the Storm'

'Autumn'

'Listening In'

'Head in Hand'

'Open'