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January 21, 2026

The Orchard / Galleries on 25 ~ Anja Ulfeldt

Anja Ulfeldt is an artist, educator, and curator with a hybrid practice that floats between . She grew up in Berkeley, CA, and earned her BFA from California College of the Arts in 2001 and her MFA from Stanford University in 2014. She’s a founding member of two artist-run alternative spaces in California, one a Mojave Desert based curatorial project and the other a floating venue for visual art, research and performance built atop a converted potato barge in the Sacramento River Delta. She’s a recipient of VBC Artist Award and Residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Visions from the New California Award, the TSFF & SOMArts Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award,The AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Finalist Award.

Anja is currently a Lecturer at Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz in the areas of Sculpture and Emerging Technology. She has exhibited in the Bay Area at SLAC National Laboratory, Pro Arts Gallery, Kala Art Institute, SOMArts, Root Division, The Museum of Craft & Design. Ulfeldt’s work has been collected by the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Esplora National Interactive Science Centre in Malta, and Recology San Francisco among others.

The exhibition is open until the end of January with a closing reception on Saturday, January 31, 2026.

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The Orchard / Galleries on 25 ~ Fernanda Martinez

Fernanda Martínez is an Oakland based painter and muralist drawing from her memories and observations of nature, and blending an experimental and intuitive approach to her practice. Her works delve into the emotional depths of color, form and incorporates intricate patterns and textures.

She has expanded her practice to include sculpture, experimenting with various materials to transform her distinctive shapes and mastery of color into captivating 3D pieces. She has exhibited her paintings and sculptures throughout galleries.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Fernanda moved to the Bay Area in 2015 where she founded La Tinta. Under this name, she collaborated with brands such as Anthropologie, Lulu and Georgia, World Market by licensing her work for a variety of products.

Fernanda has collaborated on numerous mural projects for private companies, commercial businesses, and nonprofit organizations. In addition to her commercial work, she has successfully contributed artwork to several community-focused and affordable housing developments.

The exhibition is open until the end of January with a closing reception on Saturday, January 31, 2026.

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The Orchard / Galleries on 25 ~ Fernando Reyes

Art is a second career for Reyes who spent 17 years in banking in San Francisco. He began as a self-taught artist, then studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduating with a BFA in 1997. He returned to the Bay Area and has lived in Oakland since 1998. His studio is located in the Jingletown neighborhood in Oakland at Ford Street Studios.

His work has been primarily representational and includes oil paintings, drawings, and printmaking. His primary interest has been depicting the human figure which are often depicting a single figure, however In 2014 a visit to MoMA in New York for the Henri Matisse The Cut Outs exhibition made an impact on him and he embarked on creating his own cut outs, subsequently taking his art making in the direction of abstract art in both paper cutouts and oil painting.

In January 2018, the Mexican Museum in San Francisco mounted an exhibition An Artist’s Evolution, a retrospective which has elevated Fernando’s exposure in the SF Bay Area and beyond.

Fernando has an extensive resume of solo and group exhibitions on a regional and national basis. His work has been acquired for the art collections of University of California, Davis, Sutter Cathedral Hills Hospital, Stanford University Medical Center, Alameda County Arts Collection, Amoco Corporation, Ruth Chris Steakhouse, Tom of Finland Foundation (link below), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, George and Cynthia Miller Wellness Center and numerous private collections.

The exhibition will be open until the end of January with a closing reception on Saturday, January 31, 2026.

Fridays and Saturdays 12:00 – 5:00 p.m.

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January 19, 2026

One month on . . .

Tom White

October 19, 1939

December 19, 2025

Max - 1988

mixed media portrait by Thomas B. White

Remembering

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January 16, 2026

The Orchard / Galleries on 25 ~ John Wood

Statement 

I search for a way to visualize rapture.

My interests are in the sensual, seductive qualities in life and I attempt to convey them through my art. I seek the sublime - those moments when images, sounds or emotions transport me - and I strive to create similar sensations in my art.

I love the tactile feel of drawing on paper. It has a rich, skin-like quality that yields to my marks in a way that canvas or a harder surface cannot.

Typically, I begin by working directly with a model, looking to find a connection between the figure, the drawing, and my own esthetic. Successive layers of graphite, crayon, oil pastel, pigment stick, and/or enamel combine to build each work of art. The back-and-forth "dialog" between the image and me often feels like a performance.

I often begin by drawing from the figure, following the sensual lines of the body over and over again without any clear intention, building up a base on which to develop the work. Areas of color are applied with pigment sticks, soft as lipstick, that can be thick impasto, velvety smooth, or scraped off to reveal layers of line and altered colors beneath. At some point the figure become less important, but the sense of fluidity and sensuality remain as an important element. He describes his work as a conversation that happens between the art and the artist, a kind of improvisational performance with physicality and momentum that brings out raw and emotional aspects. The work can be strong and daring, softly sweet, filled with anger and anxiety, or love and warmth.