Nancy J. Ori, November Artist of the Month

Gallery on Main's "Artist of the Month" series continues with an exhibition of photographs by Berekely Heights, New Jersey-based photographer Nancy J. Ori, on view November 1 through 30. Admission is free, and Ori’s works are available for purchase.

Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, November 5, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.

Ori predominantly photographs in the ever-changing landscape, but over the past several years has combined mixed media and abstract images into her mix of interests. Her work has been widely collected and exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the globe, and has been chosen for inclusion in numerous grant projects and important fine art exhibits including the prestigious New Jersey Fine Arts Annual. Her work is in private and museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Along with exhibiting her own work, Ori has curated and juried hundreds of exhibits at a wide variety of venues internationally.

Ori is the owner of New Jersey Media Center, LLC in Berkeley Heights, where she continues to do product, portrait, and food photography. She also enjoys teaching photography globally as well as exhibiting her fine art photographs. Nancy was taught by Ansel Adams and then affiliated for many years on the teaching staff of the Ansel Adams Workshop in California. She is currently on the faculty of local museums and art centers in New Jersey and teaches privately.

Often introduced as the ‘woman in charge of photography’ in New Jersey, in 1991, she established The New Jersey Heritage Workshops, a series of painting and photography workshops which she holds in the spring in Cape May. In 1995, she founded the New Jersey Photography Forum, which over the years under Ori’s direction has become the largest and most recognized group of fine art exhibiting photographers in the metro area.

Nancy J. Ori obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts from Elmira College, Elmira, New York and an MS degree in Visual Communications from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. For 25 years, she worked for Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Pharmaceuticals as their in-house corporate photographer and manager of video and photography services for Novartis Pharmaceuticals.