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The Ordover Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition of imagery by prominent fine art photographer David Fokos. A Fokos image is always perfectly composed and balanced, yet calmly haunting in its otherworldliness. Fokos's work is included in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Fine Art, Houston and the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. His imagery is represented by leading galleries in the U.S. and overseas, and his photographs have been published in numerous newspapers and magazines. The Ordover Gallery exhibition, Haiku: Photographic Meditations by David Fokos, will be on view April 15-July 11, 2010. The public is invited to the opening reception on Saturday, April 17, from 6:30PM-8:30PM in the Ordover Gallery's Solana Beach location.
To view a David Fokos image is to step into an ethereal world of beauty and grace, where there is time to absorb and reflect upon the purity of line, form and endless movement, captured and kept still. Fokos is a master of long exposures; this enables him to reveal the essence of a place and communicate the feeling of being in that place. Fokos's imagery includes softly flowing waters, quietly dramatic skies, and landscapes that retreat into the horizon. Regarding his work, Fokos says: "I believe that our sense of experience is built up over time - a composite of many short-term events. Likewise, I believe that our impression of the world is based upon our total experience. With this series of images I have used the camera as a scientific instrument, the way a biologist might use a microscope or an astronomer a telescope, to reveal what is felt but often unseen."
In the course of thirty years, Fokos's meticulous work ethic has led to the creation of merely 60 images. Fokos creates his images with an 8x10" view camera, in the grand tradition of masters such as Ansel Adams. His exposures range from 20 seconds to 60 minutes, and he edits his own work ruthlessly. Collectors wait with anticipation to view the rare new images that will be created each year. Fokos does limited editions of his work. One of his sold-out prints, Moonrise, sold for an astounding $28,000 on the secondary market.
David Fokos's work is held in the permanent collections of many museums, including: the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; the Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; and the Harry Ransom Museum, Austin, TX. In 2004 the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, held a solo show of Fokos's work. Leading galleries in major cities throughout the world, including New York, Tokyo, Zurich, Boston, Los Angeles and Atlanta, show Fokos's photographs. His imagery has been published in the Los Angles Times, the San Diego Union Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, Lenswork Magazine, American Art Collector, Shutterbug Magazine, View Camera Magazine, Oprah, and B&W Magazine, as well as by magazines in Japan, Portugal, and the Ukraine.
In addition to imagery by David Fokos, paintings by Mariana Sain-Morar and Sunna Bohlen will be shown, as well as and fine art photography by Abe Ordover, Lisa Ross, and Peter Fay.
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