Encounters- A show at Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, CA
Opening Saturday, September 6, 2025
How does the quality of our thinking affect the quality of the forms we make? How do encounters with natural forms change the way we think and act in the world? Tracy Grubbs’ show this September at Dream Farm Commons Gallery in Oakland explores these questions through a series of oil paintings, collages, and clay and beeswax sculptures. Drawn to the provisional yet functional architecture of natural forms like bird nests and bee hives as well as forms made by human hands, the work sits at the intersection of human and non-human modes of thinking and making. The show extends the artist’s interest in exploring impermanence and the changing nature of form, often drawing from her background in environmental conservation and her Zen Buddhist practice.
What: Work by artist Tracy Grubbs at Dream Farm Commons Gallery
When: September 6- 27, 2025
Opening Reception, Saturday September 6, 2025, Brief artist talk at 5:00 pm
Where: Dream Farm Commons 349 15th Street, Oakland, CA 94612 Cost: FREE
Hours of Exhibition: The exhibition is open every Saturday from 3:00- 6:00 pm.
Deam Farm Commons: DFC is an artist run gallery, exhibition and project space located at 15th and Webster in Downtown Oakland. Our mission is to engage with the visual, the poetic, the neighborhood and the future. Towards this end, we build social practice projects, deep visual narratives, pop up services, and performative projects as we relentlessly pursue future imaginaries, celestial mystery, discourse and alternative economic and ecologic systems. The new annex site is at 341 15th Street, two doors down from our Dream Farm Commons main exhibition space. Ricky's Tribune Barber Shop was a barbershop in downtown Oakland for over 50 years, first in the Tribune Building on 13th Street and then later in our building on 15th Street, run by the ever-kind, ever-diligent Ricky Ramirez of Oakland, who is greatly missed after his passing.