Welcome to FM Oakland!

For September of 2025, FM Oakland is featuring the work of one of our studio members Karen Lopez in her latest show "The Door of Letting Go." Karen is a Mexican artist based in the Bay Area whose practice is rooted in copper and wood. For the past five years, she has explored copper through engraving, and patina, watching it shift from raw metal into turquoise and green surfaces. These transformations have taught her that copper is never static it holds memory, change, and energy all at once.

Her work has grown from small studies pieces into larger sculptural pieces. She is drawn to creating works that radiate the aura of copper, allowing viewers to step closer, slow down, and feel its living surface. Each piece becomes both object and atmosphere, carrying a sense of history while reflecting the beauty of transformation.

Through these works, Karen seek to offer spaces for reflection and connection where material, memory, and emotion meet, and where copper’s timeless pieces can continue to resonate in new forms.

“The Door of Letting Go”
September 5th, – 27th, 2025
Art Murmur Receptions:
Friday, September 5th, 5-10pm


Stop by Saturdays from 1-5pm during the weekly "Saturday Stroll" and support local art! Or feel free to explore the "Studio Artists" section of our website to view individual artist pages.




What's FM Oakland?

FM Oakland is a gallery and private studio space of 10 professional Bay Area artists in the ever thriving Oakland "Uptown" Arts District. We open our doors weekly for Saturday Stroll (1-5pm every Saturday), monthly during Art Murmur (5-9pm first Friday of every month), for gallery receptions, and appointment. If you have any questions, comments, interests in regards to our art, show submissions, or art studio rentals, please feel free to contact us.

FM Oakland
483 25th Street
Oakland, CA. 94612

Hours:
Saturdays 1-5pm
Every first Friday of the month 5-9pm
otherwise by appointment