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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Mystic Moon Mamas and Matisse: What inspires artist Serena Viola Corson

August 21, 2022

The painter's scenes of platonic joy and curious street scores celebrate being human.

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Berkeley artist Raymond L. Haywood and the Black canvas

August 14, 2022

From the crushing weight of history, the trained carpenter creates alternate realities.

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“How human we are”: Nimah Gobir expands the space of Black love

August 10, 2022

The North Oakland-based artist honors family ties with a stitch and a stroke.

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Etudes of impermanence: Wanda Westberg’s works converse with deeper consciousness

August 2, 2022

“When I am painting, there is no ego. Sometimes before, sometimes after, but not during!” says Berkeley painter

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Look again: Rebekah Goldstein’s colorful shaped canvases hold sincere complexity

July 20, 2022

The Bayview painter works intuitively: “I’m so curious to see what the final image will look like, I want to surprise myself”

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Painter Brett Amory’s shadowy subjects are engulfed in the flow of life

June 22, 2022

Epic 20-year series 'Waiting' has captured the intangible in the banal; now the Oakland artist is looking toward what's next

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Oakland’s Heidi Brueckner turns COVID detritus into quirky, assertive art

June 8, 2022

Oil paints were joined by banned paper bags and bubble-wrap-filled mailers in the creative's pandemic dark days

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SF’s Lisa Esherick paints ‘how light comes crashing down into darkness’

May 20, 2022

A natural voyeur with no interest in the posed model, the artist makes paintings of ordinary life that pique imagination

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From deep sea volcanoes to Antarctica, an artist who collaborates with scientists

April 28, 2022

Berkeley's Lily Simonson paints remote parts unknown to wake us up to our impact on the planet.

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In Neo Serafimidis’ photographs, mysteries permeate the familiar

April 12, 2022

Everyday objects—and an ingenious series documenting people peering from their homes during the pandemic—are all in his purview.