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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Lola’s resin abstractions resist an easy read

June 7, 2024

"There’s no chicken in my work. Please don’t go looking for a chicken," says the East Bay artist.

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Greg Rick engages with global power dynamics to rectify myths of the past

May 22, 2024

The Oakland painter emphasizes 'moments of corrective alteration towards a more just and honest story.'

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In simple cardboard, Ann Weber finds endless resiliency and expression

May 8, 2024

‘How far can I build this before it collapses?’ the artist asks of sculptures made from scavenged shipping material.

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Tehran-born artist Sameh Khalatbari strings resistance into every work

April 23, 2024

Deeply felt homages to Iran's Women, Life, Freedom protest movement emanate from her San Ramon studio.

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Sticking to it: The packing tape art of Pablo Manga

April 2, 2024

A chance encounter with the medium outside a Mexico City metro station changed the Oakland artist's trajectory.

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This goes out to the moms struggling with mental health, says West Oakland artist

March 21, 2024

Multidisciplinary creative Katie Murken channels life in the pursuit of transformation and healing.

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Tabitha Soren, beloved former MTV News reporter, on life as a Bay Area photographer

February 29, 2024

Motherhood has changed things for the award-winning journalist, who is now taking things a frame at a time.

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J.L. King’s bold, curious art doesn’t shy from the peculiar

February 15, 2024

'Weird can be good, to me,' says the San Francisco oil painter, who calls her spirited art 'trick the mind.'

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Elizabeth Barlow paints ‘the fierce life force in even the tiniest flower’

January 31, 2024

Potent symbols—and beauty with a capital B—in the artist's vivid 'Flora Portraits.'

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‘Mini to monstrous,’ Lorene Anderson’s paintings surge with the Earth’s force

January 18, 2024

Seismic, self-organizing ripples echo the Oakland-based artist's call to chaos.