In the month of January 2026 we are doing work on the walls and surfaces of Dream Farm Commons AND doing lots of restructuring for our new expanded leadership
Our first event of the year will be .
Always Hungry Never Perfect
Comic release party
and
rugs pop up!
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Dream Farm Commons is delighted
to be hosting artist Ariel Cooper on
Jan 30th 5-8 pm.
Featuring recent works including rugs, drawings, paintings, and copies of all of Ariel’s comics including her latest self published comic "Always Hungry Never Perfect". There will be a rug frame, fabric and tools to play with alongside music, snacks, drinks and friends.
Ariel Cooper is a multidisciplinary artist working through visual storytelling and social/ecological/material interventions. In her work she connects personal shatterings and mendings to collective and historical events and processes. This manifests as experimental narrative comic books and tapestries populated by animal and spiritual critters, haunting visitations, landscapes, psychological domestic interiors and playful expressions of nonlinear time. As well as through experiments in open-source landscape art projects like the Sausal Creek Artist Collaborative, all of which seek to work in opposition to the alienation processes inherent in the capitalist project.Ariel Cooper lives and works in Oakland, CA; the unceded homelands of the Ohlone people. She lives in the Fruitvale neighborhood along the Sausal Creek Watershed that drains into the San Francisco Bay.
La compostura, VR installation by Gabriel Vallecillo Marquez image from Berlin Art Week
This installation will be punctuated by a December listening event
in the Annex
Saturday, December 6, from 3-5PM
​soft black kitten / soft black animal is interdisciplinary performance artist raiinnee falling’s first palindromic experiential art book—an expression of divine Black femininity. Laden with rich ecological and mythic metaphor, the work is an emboldening collection of ritual alchemical poems and spells that explore tender love, raw power, and erotic transformation. falling will offer a ritual reading of select poems and spells from this new collection at the opening of the exhibition and the physical book will be available to be touched, handled and read throughout the exhibition.​
Charlotte Law's installation in gold leaf and textile will be a dyad of vibrance born from alchemical process, evoking tenderness and deep listening as we compost the present moment. Evolving Donna Harroway’s Children of Compost, the annex will serve as a place of contemplation inviting the aud-ience to sound out and listen to perceptions of value as we collectively imagine ourselves as beings beyond the binary.
Earth-referencing visceral works will round out the exhibition
For a long time Ann Schnake has made planet-like structures of dirt and discarded materials, balls filling corners, hanging from trees, moved in performance. For this exhibition, the sculptures will flow out of closets, accompanied by paintings of red suns and moons.
Sara Cruz, fragile sculptural windows of sacred elements of bees wax and corn.
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Glenna Cole Allee explores choreographies of seabirds in flight, a new work that maps shifting avian migratory trajectories.
Alicia Escott's will show works including Metabolic Rifts: Touch Memory: videos of wildflowers sprouting in plastic intestines responding to the humans who reach out to them in gestures of reciprocity and questions of consent.