Born in Los Angeles, Calif., Herb Dubin studied at the Los Angeles Art Center, Pasadena Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of Southern California. He graduated from USC in 1965 with degrees from the Schools of Architecture and Fine Arts.

From 1956 to 1958, Dubin completed his military service in the U.S. Navy. While stationed in San Francisco, he was exposed to the vividly explosive art and entertainment scenes in the Bay Area. It was during this time that he was inspired by the San Francisco School of Painting, where artists such as DeKooning and Diebenkorn and the Abstract Expressionistic School of   painting was at its peak.

Dubin showed his work in the Los Angeles County Museum in 1959 and began selling his paintings and sculpture in 1960. Then, in 1964, Dubin's unique style exploded with dynamic immediacy onto canvas and paper in oil and acrylic. His style combined brilliant color loaded imagery with emotion and imaginative prismatic use of form and space.

From 1965 to 1975, he made his home in San Francisco and Sausalito. He experienced great artistic success and notoriety while living there. Following his premiere one-man exhibition in 1966, Dubin's work appeared continuously in prominent San Francisco galleries and was avidly collected by Bay Area luminaries. The San Francisco and Oakland Museums of Fine Art showed his paintings in 1970-71. Interviews followed with Newsweek, Women's Wear Daily, "Good Morning America", and several national newspapers.

Dubin has traveled to Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, England, Bali and Thailand. He also made several extended visits to places like Maui, Taos, N.M., and Tepozian, Mexico. He was deeply influenced by each of the cultures he visited and transferred his experience onto canvas. While in Tepozian in the early 1970s, he began painting in gouche.   Pastels were introduced in the early 1980s which further shaped his variety of styles. In the late 80s and early 90s he painted large vibrant, multilayered gouaches and oils on canvas.

In 1988, Dubin made his home in the Northern California fishing village of Bodega Bay where he made his "Studio Gallery" part of his home. He continued to create figurative works, and his impressions of the dramatically colorful and ever-changing rolling hills of Sonoma County were expressed as well.

"Art is an interactive event," says Dubin. "Painting comes out of my experience of capturing the form of feeling. My paintings focus on form, color and space. My feelings of the moment guide the transfer of mental images in to visual images."

Dubin returned to Southern California in 2000. He currently lives and paints at his home in Cardiff, Calif., perched on the hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. He continues to distill feeling and emotion, sharing with his viewers the unidealized expressive and imaginative nature of the human form and multifaceted psyches.