Elise Ordorica

Ben Lomond, CA

Elise Ordorica is always creating, striving to reflect the beauty in life. She is drawn to using glass as a material, because it represents light and color. For her it is a way of molding, sculpting and even painting with light. Elise strives to conserve the beauty of simple complexity, she is driven to create work that depicts her love and admiration for our natural world. When Elise is not in the studio she craves to be outside immersed in nature. To touch, to smell, to be engulfed by these simple pleasures is the ultimate experience.  

Elise Ordorica graduated from Alfred University in 2000, where she studied Art and Design. In her Junior year she studied at the Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland. During her time there, she was introduced to the world of Contemporary Jewelry. After graduating she worked at the Pilchuck Glass School, and managed Chappell Gallery, a top contemporary Glass Sculpture Gallery in Boston, Ma. Introduced to the world of high end contemporary glass sculpture, specifically Japanese, Australian, and Czech Glass, she found what was possible with this amazing material, seemed endless. It was during this time that she began to take metalsmithing classes, and to create one of a kind wearable glass pieces. From 2004-2006, Elise studied small scale metals at the Revere Academy in San Francisco, Ca.  Her glass jewelry has been shown in several galleries throughout the United States and included in Exhibitions such as SOFA NY, and Chicago, as well as Glass Weekend at Wheaton Village, NJ.  In 2015 she began teaching glass fusing classes at the Bay Area Glass Institute. Recently, she has been collaborating with Bill Gould, owner of Artik Art and Architecture in San Jose, CA to create Installations and large scale glass pieces.