Mary Corbin

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Mary Corbin is an artist and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She can’t get enough vivid colors, walks in the woods and well-told tales. She recently published her first nonfiction book. Visit her website at marycorbinwrites.com.

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Momentary mysticism and familial faith drive muralist and sculptor Liz Hernández

January 30, 2023

This year, the accomplished creative's goal is to stay true.

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Finding nature’s pitch in the macrocosms of Carrie Lederer

January 16, 2023

The Oakland artist went from a curatorial career to creating her own mycorrhizal murals.

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Caren Wynne’s soulful SF work is driven by deep looking—and a deeper dedication

January 9, 2023

'Inevitably, a scene you take for granted can turn itself into something special when the light is right,' the painter says

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Watching cups dry: Berkeley painter Sonia Gill raises the mundane to marvelous

December 23, 2022

"I am not just painting my dishes," she said. Find out what lies in their lines.

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Shara Mays and the unknowable canvas

December 20, 2022

Bay artist traces the evolving Black American relationship with land to inspire her bold paintings.

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Painter Cherisse Alcantara captures the vibrant SOMA Pilipinas Cultural District

December 11, 2022

The artist's most recent series explores the historic area's urban parks and gardens in vivid color

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The shapeshifters of Masako Miki

November 21, 2022

The artist expresses complex bicultural identity through works both miniature and monumental.

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‘Art = spirit + matter’: For Dulama LeGrande, the studio is a state of mind

October 26, 2022

Colorful abstract forms undulate in the East Oakland painter's work, inviting free association from viewers.

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With powers of porcelain, Ahn Lee spins Cantonese folklore futurism

October 6, 2022

Sisterhoods forged in silk, amid sinophobic US history, take centerstage

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A weaving of worlds: Miguel Arzabe explores ch’ixi

September 22, 2022

Everyday Bolivian textiles and harvest moon ritual inspire the Oakland artist.