Thank you for selecting the Ordover Gallery. The gallery displays the fine art images of photographer Abe Ordover. 
 

Abe Ordover has mounted several solo shows in 2016 -2017. He had a ten week show at City Gallery and a six month 70 print show at San Diego Natural History Museum.This was followed by a long solo show of 38 prints at Chapman University. On January 16, 2018 he opened a new show "Abstractions" at the Faculty Club of UCSD. The show ran into April.  His latest book, "The Last Hurrah" is on sale in the bookstore at Blurb.com. It contains over 100 images from his career spanning more than twenty years. He has produced a number of books including Autumn, Imagining Nature I and II, Antarctica and South Georgia and a series of Photo Painting Books, 3 volumes. All are available either through Mr. Ordover or the Blurb.com website. A new age on this site celebrates the books.

The Ordover Gallery and Studio is located in Cardiff, California .Visits to the studio are by appointment. To arrange a visit please call 858 334 3699 or email [email protected].

This website contains a variety of Ordover fine art portfolios which can be easily accessed. Prints of the images presented here can be ordered by contacting Mr. Ordover at the phone number above or by email [email protected].


About
Ordover's work has been the subject of museum and gallery shows in New York City, Atlanta, Raleigh, Dallas, San Diego, Palo Alto, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Nashville and Tallahassee.
His galleries have represented many of the finest photographers in the country. Ordover has mounted gallery shows of his own work and that of many of the photographers from National Geographic and Outdoor Photographer. These include Art Wolfe, Frans Lanting,Christopher Burkett, Galen Rowell, Charles Cramer, William Neill, Neil Folberg, Flip Nicklin, Paul Nicklen, Ralph Lee Hopkins, Ira Block, Mitch Dubrowner, Carr Clifton,Linde Waidhofer, Elizabeth Carmel,Brent McCoullough.  Kenneth Parker and many others. He continues to operate the gallery at the Natural History Museum in San Diego and curates the annual Best of Nature Show exhibited in that gallery.

His own work has been the subject of numerous comments and articles including a profile in Shutterbug. Critic Karen Chambers said of his work,"The abstract qualities of his photographs...make him more of an impressionist than a realist". William Zimmer,contributing critic for the New York Times noted that Ordover 's work owes a debt to impressionist painting."By presenting universal elements in his work,Ordover is communicating the overwhelming emotional experience that was his...the peak experiences are the kind that change one's life, and Abe Ordover captures them." His most recent shows have been at the L Street Gallery, San Diego and the gallery at the University of San Diego.He is also showing in San Diego Dreaming at the Oceanside Museum of Art.


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