Abby Ober spent her youth abroad as the daughter of a foreign service officer, living in Poland, Germany, Russia, India and Greece. She pursued an education in the Fine Arts at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, followed by a year long study in Graphic Design at Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC. After a career in advertising and decorative painting in DC, Abby moved to Pennsylvania and raised two children. During this time she returned to her love of painting, studying under various renowned Philadelphia artists. She also began to teach art to those of all ages, levels and abilities, taking pride in starting a adult program at Wayne Art Center in PA for those with cognitive impairments. In 2019, Abby moved to St. Michaels, MD on the Chesapeake Bay and works in a home studio creating larger landscape and abstract works. In the winter she paints four months in Venice FL. She teaches private and group lessons in her studio as well as regular workshops and classes at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD and at Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA. She also is an weekly instructor at the Bay Hundred Hundred Senior Center in St. Michaels, MD.
She has participated in various juried plein air events including Easton Plein Air(2024 Honorable Mention Small Works Sunday),Gloucester Plein Air Invitational(2023 Best Vanishing Landscape) Wayne Plein Air(2009, 2011, 2019, 2023 (Revelite Award)2024(Sourcetek Award), Winter Park Paint-Out(2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) Wekiva Paint Out(2023), Plein Air Adkins(2023 and 2024 2nd Place Award) and Paint Annapolis 2024.
Her work hangs in many private home collections as well as three galleries on the East Coast, Local in St. Michaels, MD, Collectors Gallery in Venice FL and Bozzutto Greene Art in Lutherville, MD.
