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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Life’s a grand circus—art is, too—for painter Michael Brennan

March 31, 2022

The artist-designer magically transforms pandemic into pandemonium and art-world portraits into carnivalesque celebration

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Get wavey: Casey Gray’s work vibrates with the simple pleasures of being

March 23, 2022

The skateboarder and new dad's aerosol paintings and wood sculptures help makes sense of everyday overload.

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Within wood panels, Marsha Balian weaves intimate found-object tales

March 9, 2022

The "hunter-gatherer" artist scours for materials like children's blocks and antique household fixtures to create complex stories.

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Intricate illustrator Casey Cripe’s is a very open studio

March 1, 2022

The Bay-born artist works on encyclopedic information visualizations—and welcomes visitors.

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Monica Lundy paints forgotten histories and overlooked individuals

February 22, 2022

Oakland-Italy artist has created portraits of sex workers and the incarcerated, and renders a psychology of space.

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Smoky air, social distancing: Gina Gaiser chronicles subtle moments of our now

February 16, 2022

The photographer takes inspiration from Warhol's quote: 'You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.'

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Oakland artist finds her cadence in the weather of emotions

January 24, 2022

“I’ve been in a different octave my whole life," Ruth Boerefyn says. Her installations are proof.

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Painter Cannon Dill: ‘I almost have to beat the canvas like a drum’

January 10, 2022

The artist goes deep on his 'crunchy,' textural process: Check out his solo show at Oakland's pt. 2 Gallery.

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Hallucinogenic tableaux vivants, from a North Berkeley backyard

December 7, 2021

Painter Alexander Kori Girard explores the wisdom of plants through modern cuneiform.

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In the studio, under the waves with Berkeley artist Dobee Snowber

December 6, 2021

"At this point, I am an artist because I don't have a choice."