Anastasiia Nelen’s solo exhibition “Slavic San Francisco” has recently opened in the Photography Department Gallery at Foothill College in Los Altos. This is a long-term project Anastasiia has been working on for the past three years, documenting the Slavic community in San Francisco. It was curated by Judy Walgren, and will remain on display through March.

An artist talk and reception (with some traditional Russian salads ) will take place on February 7 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.

For more information, message Judy Walgren – walgrenjudith@fhda.edu 

Here are the public open hours of the gallery:

W26 Photography Building & Gallery 6100
Mondays – by appointment
Tuesdays – 12:00–9:00 pm
Wednesdays – 12:00–9:00 pm
Thursdays – 12:00–9:00 pm
Fridays–Sundays – by appointment

Cindy Stokes’ paper wall sculpture Mind Garden is exhibited in the show  Pulp-Paper-Book, juried by Barbara Kibbe, at Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Sebastopol, CA.

This  exhibition features the work of book makers, pulp wranglers, papermakers and printmakers, highlighting all forms of printmaking and pulp manipulation. Paper is one of the oldest forms of artistic medium–from parchment to books to vellum to wood products, and humans print on every surface and make inks from everything on earth.  Many expressions of these processes are featured in Pulp-Paper-Book.

The exhibition runs March 14-May 3, 2026

Pulp-Paper-Book
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Sebastopol, CA
https://www.sebarts.org/exhibits 

Ari Salomon will present his project Burn Line as a solo exhibition in Kyoto this spring as part of KG+, the official satellite program of KYOTOGRAPHIE.

The exhibition was selected for the 2nd GOJO+ Award, a juried recognition highlighting work that engages with the theme of fire—an idea deeply connected to the Gojo district’s history of ceramics production and cremation practices.

Burn Line is an ongoing body of work responding to the Los Angeles wildfires. The project combines photographs made in fire-affected landscapes with “pyrotypes”—images engraved into wood and transformed into charcoal through controlled burning. Many of the works originate from photographs shared by individuals who lost personal belongings in the fires, embedding personal histories directly into the material process.

The installation will be presented in the meditation room at Nohga Hotel Kiyomizu Kyoto, where Salomon will construct a skeletal house structure to hold the work. This architectural framework echoes the domestic spaces referenced in the images, creating a dialogue between memory, loss, and physical transformation.

Together, the photographs and pyrotypes explore how images persist through destruction, positioning photography not only as a tool for documentation but as a medium shaped by elemental forces.

Exhibition Details

Burn Line
Nohga Hotel Kiyomizu Kyoto (Meditation Room)
April 18 – May 17, 2026
Open daily, 11:00–17:00

Event

Meeting Point Discussion
May 3, 2:00–3:00 PM
Gojo Green Tea Stand (next to the hotel)

Map showing the BAPC group exhibition and Ari’s solo exhibition: 

More information, including events listings 

• AriSalomon.com
• Ari’s Instagram
• KGplus