Abe Ordover has pursued his photographic craft for 25 years, becoming a professional in 2000. He has had solo gallery shows in New York City, Atlanta, San Diego and Palo Alto; solo exhibitions in university museums including the University of Colorado and Georgia Tech; and major one man shows at the Parthenon Museum in Nashville, and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta. He has been featured in museums in Athens, Dallas, Raleigh, Tallahassee, and in municipal museums in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania.

He is best known for his radiant water reflection work and for his impressionist approach to nature imagery.

Current Exhibit: John D. Clark - "Ancient Stories"
Abe Ordover - "On The Beach"

November 16, 2006 through December 17, 2006
Location: Studio 172, 444 S. Cedros, Solana Beach    858.720.1121

During the 1990s Ordover's work was exhibited at the Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta (1991), at the Lenox Art Walk and Atlanta Federation Show, and in a one-person show at the SouthTrust Bank (1997), also in Atlanta.

Ordover has served as a photographer for the Zoo Atlanta, and his images have regularly appeared on postcards, promotional materials and in the magazine ZOOM issued by that organization since 1991. In 1996, Ordover was a volunteer photographer for the Atlanta Committee or the Olympic Games and shot numerous sports,and cultural activities everyday for the committee. Many of his photographs were published in a special newspaper distributed to Olympic participants in the Olympic Village.

In 1997 Ordover began to enhance his photographs using the computer program Photoshop, with which he uses to intensify colors or create silhouettes in order to heighten the natural visual experience. Since the use of Photoshop, Ordover's photographs have crystallized in ever more abstract ways in a manner that is a quiet tribute to the great "straight photographers" of the 1940s such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.

"Abraham Ordover's artistic goal is not merely to document the landscape but somehow to represent the feelings that he experienced in nature, whether it has been in the deserts of the American Southwest or on the ice floes of Antarctica, on the Kenyan veldt or in a Maine harbor. The abstract qualities of his photographs reinforce that, making him more an impressionist than a realist. Ordover takes what has been recorded and heightens the visual experience and the emotional tone." Karen S. Chambers

"Ordover's unique combination of camera work in the field and computer work in the studio transform both the strange and familiar aspects of nature into subjects of intrigue . . .their real power comes from his deep love of the gestures of our natural world, and from his keen intuition for the kind of enduring image, which can merge from a quickly disappearing world." Brent McCullough

"Ordover is communicating the overwhelming emotional experience that was his meeting with the river. The grand moments in all of our lives are embellished. The peak experiences are the kind that change one’s life, and Abe Ordover captures them." William Zimmer, The New York Times

Abe is the founder and director of The Ordover Gallery in Solana Beach which is known for representing fine art photographers and last year it expanded to a second venue on the the fourth floor of the San Diego Natural History Museum.

While the Solana Beach location will focus on works by locally based photographers, the Museum gallery will display images by nationally known lensmen.