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 marycorbin.com.

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Her childhood in Russia’s Arkhangelsk region inspires Nadezda’s haunting art

May 18, 2021

The painter channels mysterious, mystic imagery from a cat's dinner song, or the shadows around her sink.

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Brilliant color and dynamic forms define Orin Carpenter’s poignant paintings

May 3, 2021

The Northern California artist addresses social issues and identity in his wide-ranging, spiritually-rooted work

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X-Men to X-acto: The otherworldly analog collages of Michael Tunk

April 19, 2021

Wild West meets interplanetary apocalypse (and plenty more) in the Alameda artist's visions.

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Ideas can manifest as presences in Susan Adamé’s light-filled paintings

April 5, 2021

The artists beckons visions from the ethereal plane, drawing special cards and summoning intuitive inspiration.

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In Carol Aust’s paintings, colorful characters on the brink of new paths

March 26, 2021

Necessity of human connection is palpable in the Oakland artist's simple gestures and narrative composition

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In Pouké Halpern’s work, domestic vessels resonate with subtle poetry

March 9, 2021

Muted lines and an ambient optimism about the glass-half-full infuse the artist's delicate paintings

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Muralist Nigel Sussman delights East Bay pedestrians with Escher-like worlds

February 18, 2021

Citing influences like R. Crumb and 'Where's Waldo,' the Berkeley artist draws walkers' eyes into colorful mazes.

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It’s OK to laugh! Christina Spiegel’s cartoons bring comic relief to our moment

February 4, 2021

Alameda cartoon artist's deadpan one-liners and true-life characters provide human connection.

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In Lisa Levine’s house photographs, an exploration of isolation and comfort

January 27, 2021

Alameda artist's 'Virtually No Place Like Home' series captures emblems of solitude, change, and personal identity

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A meditation in lumber: Artist Aleksandra Zee’s peaceful wood grains

January 7, 2021

Aleksandra Zee’s creations in wood are inspired through meditation with an intention of putting goodness out into the world. Her hope is that her...