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The Gallery at Barrio Glassworks features beautifully designed, handmade objects by glass artists from San Diego, Southern California and beyond.  We are dedicated to representing artists at all stages of their career — emerging, mid-career and well established. With roots in the American studio glass movement, we focus on innovative contemporary work by artists who work with glass in unique and innovative ways.

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Susan Hirsch

Susan Hirsch Glass Artist- Showing in the Gallery at Barrio Glassworks

In the Gallery

Now through Spring 2025

San Diegian Susan Hirsch is a master artist and teacher of Fusion Glass.

 

Whether gallery work or public installations, Susan Hirsch creates glass art that reflects the endless possibilities of her material and techniques. Susan’s signature line of fused and slumped glass sculpture features poetry, lyrics, or other messages embedded in multilayered patterns, textures, and finishes. She believes these words help viewers think differently and more deeply about the work than is possible when using color and form alone.

An artist whose work embodies bold designs and clear focus. Susan holds a B.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Herron School of Art, Indiana University.  Her 25 year career in retail advertising has garnered critical acclaim as a Creative Director and Graphic Designer.

In 2007, she took a beginning glass fusing class and fell in love. Since opening FIRE FUSION STUDIO, she shows, sells, and teaches classes at her studio in San Marcos, Ca. and through Glass Art Magazine offers 2 fused glass webinars.  Locally represented by the Contemporary Fine Art Gallery in La Jolla, Ca., her works are found in private collections in the U.S. and England.

Her lastest endeavor is stepping into the hot shop and glass blowing.

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