Cohen, Larry
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Maker Name
Cohen, Larry
Biography
Larry Cohen has been living and working on Cortes Island, with partner Suzu Matsuda who was known as Suzu Speier in the 1970s when she taught at Peg's Place Pottery School, 1973-79. Suzu, born in California 1939, and attended the Vancouver School of Art in 1971 - 73. Larry, Suzu and Lisi (Elise) Siegel set up the Kitsilano Pottery Studio in the early 1970s.
Larry had worked as a criminal lawyer and a commercial fisherman, as a University of British Columbia law instructor and as a building contractor. His first experience with clay was when he was 27 years old, and later he found it a respite from teaching law. It took some time before he could work full time with clay.
Larry and Suzu have two reduction 60cu ft kilns, one for gas and one for wood, and mainly sells his work on Cortes Island and used to sell and exhibit at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. Larry makes handsome simple pottery - wheel-thrown vases, jars and platters. and he builds structural culptures from thin slabs of clay. It is important to him that everything he creates is unique, that no object repeats another.
Larry considers himself as a local clay pioneer, like other local potters in BC, as studio ceramics were only introduced to the province in the 1920s.
In the 2000s Larry has won a couple of month-long residencies as a clay master, one in China, another in Japan.
Larry had worked as a criminal lawyer and a commercial fisherman, as a University of British Columbia law instructor and as a building contractor. His first experience with clay was when he was 27 years old, and later he found it a respite from teaching law. It took some time before he could work full time with clay.
Larry and Suzu have two reduction 60cu ft kilns, one for gas and one for wood, and mainly sells his work on Cortes Island and used to sell and exhibit at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. Larry makes handsome simple pottery - wheel-thrown vases, jars and platters. and he builds structural culptures from thin slabs of clay. It is important to him that everything he creates is unique, that no object repeats another.
Larry considers himself as a local clay pioneer, like other local potters in BC, as studio ceramics were only introduced to the province in the 1920s.
In the 2000s Larry has won a couple of month-long residencies as a clay master, one in China, another in Japan.
First name
Larry
Last name
Cohen
Date of Birth
1941
Place of Birth
Kitchener, Ontario
Studio location
Formal Education
Major Exhibitions
2019 'This and That', Sidney and Gertrude Zak Gallery
2011 Larry Cohen Gallery of BC ceramics
Affiliated organizations
Links to Further Resources
2019 https://www.jewishindependent.ca/tag/larry-cohen/
http://www.cortesisland.com/tideline/show194v/Larry_Cohen_Ceramics
https://www.facebook.com/fraservalleypottersguild/posts/2548259635292536
1977 Catalogue of British Columbia Potters, Bob Kingsmill.
Source
Debra Sloan