At first glance, Charles Anselmo’s photographs and Toni Littlejohn’s paintings seem to share little beyond their scale. His work is an elegiac survey of modern-day ruins; hers, a primordial meditation on the earth’s surface and the vastness beyond. Yet both artists, who are also partners, share a visual language that locates human presence precisely in its absence. 

Their large-scale, immersive works fill the Russell Chatham space in Point Reyes Station through Nov. 16. Mr.…