Artomatic 2009: Amy Ordoveza

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mushroom paintings, oil on panel, 2008
Amy Ordoveza

This series of three paintings by Amy Ordoveza works as abstraction from a distance, but close up, they're luminous golden woodland fungi - the quintessence of bioephemera! See more at her website/blog.

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