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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Tin man from El Sobrante: Dave Yoas turns the antiquated upside-down

August 30, 2023

The artist's upcycled toy collages bring the vintage into new light.

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Fabric portraitist Alice Beasley stitches together politics and community

August 17, 2023

Piedmont resident sews poignant scenes from the both the Civil Rights movement and the neighborhood cafe.

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In graphite, Zachary Oldenkamp captures peace at day’s edges

August 2, 2023

The artist feels out his delicately precise drawings in a Tendernob flat

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Maya Kabat paints the crazy quilt of urban patterns and puzzles

July 21, 2023

'It’s about how control and chaos run up against each other,' says the North Berkeley artist

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Heather Wilcoxon’s work is unafraid to be ‘dark, emotional, stubborn’

July 13, 2023

'I don’t paint pretty. Or anything that matches the couch,' says the Sausalito artist, letting raw emotions spill out

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Leigh Wells transcends collage to diagram emotional states

June 30, 2023

The Sausalito artist and commercial illustrator turned to abstract art for its evocations of life's interior regions

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Plastic Man speaks: A moment with sculpture artist Jerry Barrish

June 15, 2023

The longtime San Francisco scavenger talks about breathing new life into 'the lowest caste in the hierarchy of debris'

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Ema Sintamarian’s road to art began with a pair of rebellious red shoes

May 24, 2023

Forged in Bucharest's conformity, the multimedia artist now spins tales of melancholy, loneliness, and the absurd.

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In order to feel alive: The paintings of Livia Stein

May 11, 2023

This Oakland artist is drawn to the intersection of the human and non-human.

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Colored mud and ancient magic: artist Anthony Riggs’ dualities of paint

April 19, 2023

Anthony Riggs will tell you he hates paint. But he feels compelled to be an artist, nonetheless. He might even be a little obsessed. “I...