She has a BA in Art History from Kenyon College and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Her photographs examine the perception and experience of the landscape and the illusions of place. She seeks to portray the mood or spirit evoked by light, shadow, and scale. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is in the collection of the San Francisco MoMa Artists’ Gallery. It has been purchased for the Hyatt Pritzker Collection and for numerous private collections including that of architect Frank Gehry and sculptor Jamie Carpenter. Cobb has been awarded residencies by the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and the Blue Mountain Center in New York.