The Ordover Gallery

Contemporary Photography, Painting, & Sculpture

From National and San Diego Based Artists

The Ordover Gallery at the
San Diego Natural History Museum

Charles Cramer: Lyrical Landscapes

January 9 - May 2, 2010
San Diego Natural History Museum, 4th Floor
1788 El Prado, Balboa Park
(858) 720-1121

Charles Cramer has been photographing the landscape for 30 years. He is recognized as a master printmaker for his rare expertise in dye transfer printing, and for his more recent mastery of digital printmaking. Cramer has photographed extensively in Yosemite. The National Park Service selected Cramer to be an artist-in-residence for Yosemite in 1987, and again for 2010. Cramer has taught digital imaging for the Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops, Anderson Ranch Workshops, the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging, and others. He has been profiled in PhotoTechniques, PhotoVision, and View Camera Magazine. Cramer's work is included in the book, Landscape: The World's Top Photographers, published by Rotovision, 2003.

Also on display will be new "sand art" by Tom O Scott, landscape work by Olof Carmel and Peter Fay, and Monarch butterfly images by Abe Ordover. . . . more

The Ordover Gallery
at Solana Beach

Hope and Tragedy: Contemporary Paintings by Saphire

Reception: Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, 5 to 8 pm

January 21 through April 11, 2010
410 S. Cedros, Solana Beach
(858) 720-1121

Saphire, an emotive artist, creates paintings that draw the viewer in - one begins to contemplate the abstract figures that seemingly interweave, sway and meld into one another. Vibrant bursts of unexpected color move across the canvas in surges of emotion. In Saphire's work there are complex visual, spatial and emotional relationships between the abstracted forms. The viewer is invited to decipher and interpret these liaisons.

Also showing paintings by Sunna Bohlen and Heidi Rufeh, as well as fine art photography by Art Wolfe, Abe Ordover, Lisa Ross and Peter Fay.