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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‘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.

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Disposable razors, oversize IUDs: Annie Duncan plumbs intimacy of everyday objects

January 3, 2024

Painter and ceramicist explores crux of beauty and toxicity within femininity's rubric.

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‘Holding onto a vision’: Calvin Lai paints the energy of recognition

December 21, 2023

The artist combines figurative and abstract elements to precisely render images while capturing emotional essence

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Tintype photographer Jenny Sampson captures women on wheels, roundness of meals

December 1, 2023

Collage, her work in professional kitchens, skate culture inspire Sampson's images.

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Of memories and migration: Trina Michelle Robinson’s deep family excavations

November 21, 2023

The expansive video artist, with deep roots in the Bay Area, tracks down puzzle pieces of identity.

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Sandy Ostrau wants viewers to ‘feel their place’ in her luminous figurative work

November 9, 2023

The invitation has been extended to inhabit her haunting landscapes of Californian light.

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Chuck Sperry screenprints rock history and the fight for equal rights, one poster at a time

November 1, 2023

A counterculture constant, from his work with Artist Television Access to Studio 4 and Bill Graham Presents

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Trained in 18th-century Indian technique, Rupy C. Tut paints women facing today’s challenges

October 12, 2023

Burnished works on hemp paper honor self-reflection, even amid global tragedy.

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As ideas settle and paint dries, Dana DeKalb’s fantastical world comes to life

September 29, 2023

The artist's painted dioramas and peculiar characters suggest an open-ended morality play taking shape

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In Tanya Wischerath’s art, bold brushwork and a sparkling glorification of gender nonconformity

September 15, 2023

Painting, tattooing, and constantly creating, the quintessential SF artist expresses love for her queer community