K. Orr Ambrose

Orr Ambrose

American artist K. Orr Ambrose, born 1970, grew up in the foothills of South Carolina. Her early art education began at 8 years old with drawing classes at the Greenville County Museum of Art. From there she went on to receive private instruction and enroll in the Greenville Fine Arts Center. Beginning in 1986, Ambrose began making regular visits to Monhegan Island in Maine to visit family. She was heavily influenced by the artists she met there, including Lynne Drexler and Don Stone. She attended the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, where she studied under acclaimed artist Charles Hinman. She earned her BFA with a double major in Painting and Ceramics and was awarded a 3 year residency at Odyssey Center in Asheville, NC. She has been exhibiting in group and solo shows for 30 years. Most recently, her work has been shown at CPCC’s Ross Gallery, Charlotte, NC, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC, the Umstead Hotel, Cary, NC, the Asheville Museum of Science, Asheville, NC, and the Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC.

Ambrose has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina since 2012.