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Preview to Suzy's Solo Exhibit at Seymour Art Gallery, May 13 - June 9, 2008 Featuring life size ceramic sculpture, tap film, & "Motion Pitchers"

Academy Award "Motion Pitchers" Oscar Gifts Included in "Everybody wins at the Oscars" gift baskets for top nominees for 2008 Academy Awards Limited edition of 80 one-of-a-kind pieces more

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"Duets"
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"Message in a Bottle: Uncorking the Genie to Inspire"

Spirit Bottles

"Message in a Bottle" is an exhibit of Spirit Bottles and larger works both on the wall and free standing. Works have been inspired by gods, goddesses and icons of ancient and contemporary cultures: Statue of Liberty, Frida Kahlo and Ganesha. These bottles contain a genie that inspires and informs the larger pieces. They are handbuilt with lowfire sculpture clay and surfaced with colourful underglazes, glazes, acrylic and iridescent paints. Each sculpture has a message often employing poetry and music relative to these objects and their images. I have loved making this body of work. It feels like a continuous beginning. The spirit bottles inspired the creation of the following Duets, Masks and footwear...

BC/Tajimi Exchange "In the Palm of the Hand" Oct. 19 - Nov. 15th 2006

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Gallery of BC Ceramics, Vancouver and Tajimi Japan, Aug. 2005

BC In a Box Gallery of BC Ceramics, Vancouver
			featured in "500 Animals in Clay" 2006
The Potters Guild of BC is celebrating its 50th Anniversary with a series of travelling exhibits. "BC in a Box" will travel to 6 venues in BC. » more

"Transformations: The Potters Guild of BC @ 50"

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"Potsketch" Exhibit "Potsketch", fundraiser auction and exhibit to support the Clay Studio of Missoula, in Montana Artists clockwise from top left: Suzy Birstein, Akio Takamori, Boomer Moore and Garth Clark and Paul Booth. "Clay Times" magazine, Vol. 11, #5

	"Tete a Tete" Solo Exhibit at Silk Purse Gallery, W. Vancouver Tete a Tete: An Intimate Conversation between Sculpture and Painting Suzy's figurative ceramic sculptures, originally inspired by the paintings on her collection of handbuilt tableware, have now inspired a series of Monotypes, Miniature Paintings and mirror mounted Masks. Her exotic evocative images continue to embrace the power of the Ancients while reflecting a Contemporary off-beat Spirit.

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