Maryly Snow

Art and the Scientific Method! Art and Politics! Art and Conservation!
I’m a solo artist so there is ample parking… Please come visit! Maryly was born in Oakland in 1944 (just turned 80!). She has studied art with Elmer Bischoff, Karl Kasten, George Miyasaki, Kenji Nanao, Corbin LePell, Ray Saunders, Victoria Johnson, and Kazuko Watanabe. Briefly married, Maryly earned her Masters in Library and Information Studies in 1973. In 1976 she began managing UC Berkeley’s Architecture Visual Resources Library, a collection of over 250,000 35mm slides. With a full-time job, she didn’t have the time for an apartment, an art studio, and a career, so she began living in live-work studios, first in San Francisco, then in Emeryville. In 1992 Maryly purchased Snow Studios, a legal live-in art studio in West Oakland. This is where she still makes art.

Come see her Saving Nature series, her Emeryville/East Bay Bridge views with shaped Lucite frames, and her most recent series Have We Destroyed Ourselves Yet? Her #5 in the series is subtitled Thurgood Was Right in 1991. It refers to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who upon his retirement, cautioned the Court about the dangers of reversing or overturning past law, warning them doing so would lead to disrespect for the Court as well as the rule of law. That was prior to the Court’s decision to reverse Roe v. Wade. (They should have listened!) Here you’ll see flying coat hangers, symbol of illegal abortion for decades. Maryly has also addressed climate, water issues, and gun laws. Maryly is currently working on #18 in this series. Maryly may be reached via her website www.snowstudios.com. Maryly lives in Oakland with two cats and three beehives.