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1974 or 75, when she was driving a Valient!

I was so sorry to have missed Susan's memorial. I had no choice. If Nature ever created a one-off it was Susan. She was beyond special and is terribly missed.

The Subtle Altar

The Subtle Altar

The Nephews

Adi Gevins speaks on the Subtle one...

Cousin Mark Rosengarden talks about Subtle

Peter Wilkie speaks about Susan

Philip Linares speaks about Susie and Hello Again!

Anna Christensen speaks about Susan.

Charlie Denson speaks about Susan Subtle

Robin - Clayton and Betty Bailey's daughter speaks about Susie.

Joe Silk speaks on Subtle.

Amazing 2 dollar bill rings by Elyse Allen, Susie's cousin! Thank you Elyse!!

Cousin David Schwartz

<3 Mildred Howard <3

Matt of the Boys from Gualala

Andy Meisler speaks about Susan

Myl3z - Mildred Howard's grandson, Susie's nephew

Lauren & Rosa

The Boys from Gualala

Lauren in polka dots!

Adi & Bari

Stamping station and lots of polka dots!

Bari Scott and Subtle flowers

We snacked on Susie's favorite snacks. The whole event was decorated by flower arrangements by Liza Lubell, Susie's goddaughter who is a professional florist, who also runs a floral composting business! https://www.garbagegoddess.com/ Very Subtle. Thank you Liza for bringing so much beauty to the celebration. Here we see one of Susie's favorite treats, Butterscotch pudding and a beautiful bouquet by Liza.

Band compiled by cousin Mark Rosengarden. Mark and Suz used to host Passover Seder together, often at a Chinese or Moroccan restaurant with a belly dancer.

Inside the sanctuary space, celebrating Susie’s life.

Susie's old passport photo, displayed in the slideshow of Susie's life. The trombone toots for Suz!

Three-piece band plays at Susie's celebration of life: Accordion - one of her life long favorite instruments. Legend has it, Suz and Adi Gevins once took accordion lessons but were kicked out because Suz kept playing when the instructor was talking. Little known fact, Susie played trombone in her high school marching band.

Susie and an accordion player

Matt dug this one up. Susie was the best. Kind, kooky, and curious, so generous with her spirit and attention. I always felt seen, even when I was tiny. I miss her and am sending love to you all <3

SS after successfully chasing a UPS Van around Berkeley

Susie knew how to rock a stripe just as well as a polka dot. Here she is applying her kiddie charisma to baby Bo Prochnow.

Susie and friends

Susan and Joe Silk in front of recycled materials - 1995

Susan dancing with a stranger at the Ashkenaz, 2005. She twirled with such delight!

Susie and painter Jack Levine, San Francisco, 2003

heart sculpture made of 2 dollar bills found in Manhattan art gallery

Susan was a true original, and I always enjoyed her company. I met her when she was installing "Hello Again" at the LA Municpal Art Gallery in the late 1990's. She had been a student at UC Berkeley where my former partner Peter, long deceased, had known her. My favorite Susan story, which she told in so deadpan a manner, was how her ex-husband, when they split up, had presented her with a list of 78 things that were wrong with her.

inside of the Hello Again! postcard set

Found the postcard set from Susan's wonderful Hello Again! exhibition at the Oakland Museum in 1997

Susan shopping by Betty Bailey

Susie always mentioned she missed so many people when we spoke last, before she passed & now I really get it.....miss her so much now as I get older without her in my life! Wish she knew that now!

Happy 80th birthday Susie! WE MISS YOUZIE! Here Susie is on television. She appeared on TV throughout the 80s. This appears to be a Valentines day show, as Susie wears a heart tiara and displays heart themed items; as well as, a moon lamp.

Susie and friends

Susie and friends visit the Coney Island History Project

Starlite Dancing

Hello guys. And Bye. neversurrenderboys ;)

Just one of her many special talents was her ability to pick her nose with her tongue. -- from our book "How to Have Fun with Your Body"

At 2 am on December 21, 1979, Susan said to me, "Really, I'm just a normal person whose life is full of many mundane things." Then she put on marching music and started madly opening up birthday and Christmas presents.

Postcards from the Hello Again show.

From the eyeglass holder era. That's when I met her.

Susan was the loveliest goofball. She infused everything with fun and enthusiasm. A true visionary. I've been thinking of her lately and a so sorry I missed one last day of fun and laughter with her.

It’s wonderful to see how this site has flourished. I think about Susie often and still can’t believe she is gone- but not forgotten. I certainly enjoyed her articles on our hometown, Atlantic City. These grew into the book we did together-Atlantic City:125Years of Ocean Madness. Susie was an original for sure.

I remember when we robbed a bank together, she drove the getaway car. XO Danny D

Susie and Charlie Denson - 2013

Susie with Joe Silk and son Jon

Susie with Mark Lubell and family - 2013

Bouquet by Susan

Susie admiring a flower - 2013

Susie and her garden - 2013

Susie and Sidonie Comte, her god-daughter

Susie and Clayton Bailey - 2013

Susan Subtle with David Schwartz and Monica Bradley - 2013

Susan with Ruth Reichl

Susan's passport - 1970 - age 29

Susie and the girls (Jen and Sarah Levin)

Susan in her living room with Basketball Piñata

Susan at 90 being hoisted up byBetty Bailey - drawing by Betty

Susan dressed as a chicken

Susie in a new dress next to her succulent wagon

Susie with cake

I spent a few wonderful summers with Susan & family in Atlantic City at their home on the ocean. Susie was aways full of spirit and joking around. What fond memories.

Susie's expressive garden - 2018

Susan (in black dress) and Mr. Peanut, Vincent Trasov - Celebration of Art's Birthday and the Decca-Dance at the Elk's Building, Los Angeles, February - 1974

Trash bag and can fashion at "Hello Again!" at the LA Municipal Art Gallery - 1997. Susan gives a tour to a group including longtime and dear friend Andy Meisler, who stands at right.

Subtle leads a tour at the opening of "Hello Again!" at the LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA - 1997. The lounge chair in the foreground is made by artist Clare Graham and composed of recycled soda can aluminum.

In 1997, Susan was awarded the Good Earthkeeping Award by the City of Los Angeles for bringing her show Hello Again! to the Barnsdall Art Park. Read the LA Times review of the show here: ‘Hello Again’ Mixes Fun With Serious Ideas About Recycling

Susan Subtle's San Francisco Chronicle business card. From 1982 to 1985, Subtle wrote columns for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Susie and Charlie Denson posing for Susie's Best Bets column ~ 1970s. Susie and Charlie remained lifelong friends after meeting in the 1970s while working for New West magazine. They had a boardwalk connection, with Susie being from Atlantic City and Charlie from Coney Island. At one point Charlie, Susie, and others cohorts including scholar Helen Parish all had apartments in Normandy Village at the same time. Susie always spoke fondly of the architecture and community of Normandy village.

Susan and Nikki Bridges - a close friend and mentor to Susan. Susie and Nikki had a group of friends who lunched together. When Nikki passed, Susan was given some of her ashes.

Susie and painter Jack Levine in front of an automaton named Susie who dances the can-can. Susie and Jack were lifelong friends.

Susie and Joey Rigg - having fun in the woods.

Susan, wearing her tie coat, a coat made by Koos composed of her father's tie collection, stands with Koos Van Den Akker at a gallery opening.

Note from Koos Van Den Akker: "Dear Susan, This is the ultimate SHIRTDRESS made from one of my favorite shirts and a table cloth. Wartime fashions for sure! Wear it in good health and with great Humor. love Koos (Sorry for the ink stain!)

Polka Dot Begonia - begonia maculata - photo by Susan Subtle

Susie and a Mr. Peanut display ~ 1970. Subtle was particularly fascinated with Mr. Peanut and peanut growing. She researched and wrote an article on peanuts. As part of this piece, she wrote to the Whitehouse, asking them what the president's favorite peanut was? They replied explaining they are unable to endorse any particular brand.

Mylez Brown, Susan, Timiza Joseph, Mildred Howard, Mario Brown - 2010

Susan and Adi Gevins

Susan and Joe Silk in front of recycled materials - 1995

Susan Subtle, Harry Bridges, Nikki Bridges, and company - Japan - 1973

Susie and Mildred Howard wearing leopard - one of Susie's favorite patterns

Clayton Bailey, Susan Subtle, and Mark Bulwinkle

Clayton Bailey and Susan - 2011

Betty Bailey, Clayton Bailey, Suzie, and nephew Will - late 1990's

philosopher Brian Loar, Susie, Judy Wideman and writer John Edgar Wideman - Susie's wedding - London, UK

Susie's wedding - London, UK

Susie and a succulent... she always found the most unique and expressive specimen

Ode to the Subtle One There once was a Polka Dot Lady who lived on a Hill. She welcomed us A L L and it sure was a thrill... The House was truly unlike any other - Filled with Life, Love, Art and occasionally her BROTHER She entertained us all and knew E V E R Y O N E in Town - And She was first in line at playing the CLOWN ! Polka-Dots were her game, the WARRIORS her muse - And her Leg of Lamb you couldn’t refuse ! Her Spirit and Energy inspired us all - And Her delightful irreverence made us bawl ! She was one of a kind and T H A T ‘ S for sure And now life without Her is harder to endure WE LOVE YOU SUSIE ! FLY BABY FLY

Happy Birthday Susie! Wish you were here. . .

Pop-up books and garden giraffes. Ugly cactus and giggling rants. Curtsy on the way in and toodalooos on the way out. Projects for naming babies and hunting for art. Hours of phone calls zipping to far off quirky lands. Polka dots rule and a laugh that would brighten the darkest of days. And of course adventurous outings and plenty of $2 bills. No other like Suzi on the Hill. Happy Birthday to our dynamite pal that brought so much joy to our life. We miss and love you so!

Sunset presents. November 2017

May 2017

Balazs & Shoka’s very first hangout with the Subtle One the day after we arrived to live in the Bay Area. May 2012

Festively dressed to meet Rio for the first time. January 2016

Susie & Balazs on a fun house walking tour together in Berkeley. May 2013

Susie chatting with guests at Shoka’s photo show. November 2015

Susie & Rio together during a favorite pastime. May 2017

Celebrating Shoka’s birthday. September 2018

Dinner at Suzi Q’s always had a subtle twist. January 2013

Susie showing off her new mask at Balazs’ weekly groceries drop off during the pandemic. April 2020

Greeting party outside Susie’s front door. November 2017

Saying our toodaloooooosss on Christmas Day. December 2013

I have wonderful memories of Susan she was a good friend. I enjoyed working with her on HELLO AGAIN at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 1977. Because of her and the vision on this exhibition the gallery had more visitors per week, the exhibition still hold the gallery record. Susan was an exceptional curator, writer and friend I’ll miss her calls about new exhibits she’s planning.

At a wedding in 2009 with Adi

Susie’s Best Bets shoot for New West art directed by Charlie Denson. Ann Wehr, Spinny Walker, Vicky Rosen, Chip Lord, Joey Rigg, Travis Amos and Colin.

At an A’s game in 2013 with Monica Bradley, Cousin David, Peter Wilkie, Joey Rigg.

In Paris with Lynn Philips and Babs Shapiro 2013

In Paris at the Pompidou with Peter Wilkie 2013

Susie Subtle in neon leopard, polka-dot, checkered outfit stands next to artist, musician, and actress Jane Dornacker - 1977

The Manitoba Museum of Finds Art - 1977

The Manitoba Museum of Finds Art - 1977

Susie showing her plastic collection at The Manitoba Museum of Finds Art - 1977

Susie at the Thanksgiving table, 2009

Thanksgiving excitement! A wonderful evening with friends . . .

Thank you, Susie! You always made it special . . .

Thanksgiving . . .

A Thanksgiving memory. . .

Thanksgiving, 2016

Giving thanks in 2010 . . .

Thanksgiving 2009

The table is set by Susie . . .

Warmth . . .

A plentiful Thanksgiving . . .

Thanksgiving memories at Susie's . . .

Susie on the KGO morning talk show - 1985

Susie in Yellow - 1978

Slice of life! Susie wears her beautiful tomato dress while enjoying a slice of pepperoni pizza for a project we were doing called "closet eater." Photo by Charlie

Jules and Susie being "taped" at Normandy village ~ 1982 Photo by Charlie Denson

A rainy day in Berkeley. Susie and her car. The echium lean into Panoramic way, Andris' orange truck sits in the background.

Susie on 2-18-1978 at Jose and Rebecca's wedding. Picture by Lynn Adler

Susan in front of mirrored objects at Hello Again: A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design

Hello Again: A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design

Clayton Bailey with Susie in the background at the opening of Hello Again in Los Angeles - 1997

Clayton Bailey robot sculpture, flowers, Hello Again exhibition sign - Front desk

Recycled Spool Furniture from the Hello Again: A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design show curated by Susan

Recycled instruments from Hello Again!

Susan in front of Leo Sewell's dog sculptures

Susie in front of a tower of recyclables and recycling bins - “Hello Again: A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design.” - Barnsdall Art Park - 1997

Susie leads a tour at the opening of "Hello Again!" at the LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles CA - 1997

Ross Craig, Maria Eugenia Quintana, and Susan at the opening of "Hello Again!" at the LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles CA - 1997 The Hello Again! exhibition originated at the Oakland Museum, going on to show at L.A Municipal Gallery, Texas International Museum of Art & Science, Vancouver Museum, and the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, in Charlotte.

Susie leading a tour at the opening of "Hello Again!" at the LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles CA - 1997

Susan with Ben & Irwin Love ~ 1975

Susie & Adi Gevins ~ dear friend, fellow accordion lover, giggling partner, and fashion cohort. - late 1990s

Susan and Maria Eugenia Quintana

Susan and dear friend Lloyd Watson on his 90th birthday - 2015

Susan and Koos - Early 2010s

Susan Subtle and fashion designer Koos Van Den Akker, 2010. Susan was a muse for Koos, he would send her the garments that were too wild and would not sell. She proudly wore everything he sent.

Susie 1945

Susie at nineteen.

Susan with flower vases

Susie Subtle and Charlie Denson, c. 1980. We visited my sister's ranch in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Miss you so much, Soosie. . .

I’m so sad to learn that there is no more Susan Subtle in the world. The last time I saw her was in Vancouver. We went to hear Toots Thielmans play the harmonica and ended up in a flamenco bar where they locked the doors and danced on the tables. Thank you for making this beautiful web page.

Susan’s striking pose and Tony with the violin that matches the bow.

Susan meets Tony in Brighton & Hove City, UK. Thursday 31, March 2005. The photo originally posted with my memories is of Susan with her favourite matchstick instrument.

I am saddened and shocked to learn about the untimely passing of Susan. My first contact with Susan was back in the early 2000’s after viewing online information about her first Hello Again! Exhibition. I remember seeing her telephone number being mentioned and called to see if she might be interested to be made aware of a collection of playable musical instruments entirely made with recycled matchsticks. From that day forward our relationship blossomed with emails and phone calls across the pond regarding my Dad’s work and in February 2005 Susan told me she was coming to London and could we meet in person if possible at my house to see his 1930s work for herself. I reside in Brighton & Hove City, it is a seaside resort and Susan told me, “I am from a seaside resort, Atlantic City, and I have always longed to go to Brighton.” Brighton is well in reach by car or train for a day return visit, so we arranged to meet on Thursday 31st March 2005. We had a lovely day and once back home in Berkeley Susan wrote, “It was wonderful to meet you and your wife, sister-in-law and son. I totally enjoyed my day with you. Thanks again and again for the lunch as well. I loved seeing your father's hand work and I look forward to having him participate in the Hello Again! exhibition.” I treasure these memories of “just an old-fashion gal” whose charming company we all thoroughly enjoyed on that special day. We stayed in touch over the following years and the most recent communication I received from Susan was a phone call 15, March this year about the progress of her Hello Again! Again exhibition. She was almost finished with the preparation of Hello Again! Again, and the proposal would be art directed prior to approaching museums in Berkeley, L.A., and Texas. I will never forget all the fond memories we shared over the years and will miss her zest for life and bright bubbly personality, this is how I will always remember her. Rest in Peace, Susan My heartfelt condolences go out to her family and friends. Submitted by: Tony Hall, 08-25-2020

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July 13, 1980: Susan in the middle Chloe Footstar Memorial Potluck Picnic, Portview Park, Oakland

July 13, 1980: Susan, Willy and Charlie, Chloe Footstar Memorial Potluck Picnic, Portview Park, Oakland

July 13,1980: Susan with Charlie Denson, Chloe Footstar Memorial Potluck Picnic, Portview Park, Oakland

1979 Susan with Spain, San Francisco

1979 me, Susan and Betty Bailey, San Francisco

1978 Jules Backus and Susan

Manitoba Museum of Finds Art We Accept Plastic exhibition announcement drawing by Ken Dollar

It could have been 1974 that Bonnie Hughes introduced me to Susan. We instantly became friends and she added me into the mix of her life with abandon. It was always a little hapless, and incredible. Susan was there for the Fat City School of Finds Art graduation ceremony performed by Lowell Darling in the Library of the SFMOMA on April 17, 1974 and many other countless events. Her plastic collection was a show at the Manitoba Museum of Finds Art in 1977, with a wonderful drawing by Ken Dollar for the announcement. This exhibition was much loved by the chairman of the board of trustees of the SFMOMA who had to pass through the exhibition to visit director Henry T. Hopkins (much to Henry's chagrin). Susan asked my mother to paint a picture of bamboo for her Subtle & Company stationery. And she made the first membership cards for the Manitoba Museum of Finds Art. Susan and her circle were an important part of my life in the Bay Area. Without that support, my life would be much less interesting.

I only had a glimpse of the Susan Subtle that you all knew and loved. She was a patient at our Berkeley dental office for around 20 years, where I am currently employed for the past 13. It was always a joy to see her name on the schedule. She always had a smile, brought our office good cheer and laughter. Every office needs that! I always looked forward to see what she would be wearing. It always inspired me and my otherwise conservative office attire. One day she came in wearing peach polkadot pajamas and I said to her, “ Susan, those are so cute. I didn’t know I can wear pajamas to an appointment.” To which she replied, “ Sure, why not!” The next time she came in, she gifted me the exact pair. I will forever cherish it and the $2 bill she gave me a while back. She truly is an inspiration, to live life to its fullest, laugh and be happy. Rest in Peace, Susan.

"Hello Will - I came across this negative from the Hello Again! exhibition at the Oakland Museum. Most of the dresses were made by Charlotte Wilson who was Swedish and I saw her work in a Parisian dress shop. White tube, rusted bottle cap ball down, wine crate short dress, white safety pin dress, newspaper dress, Black ???? by artist x - stevens and Rubber tire w/spark plug buttons."

Larry Fuente (b. 1947)
Mad Cad -1980-1984

Hello Again Mixes Fun With Serious Ideas About Recycling
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-22-ca-45242-story.html
By WILLIAM WILSON
OCT. 22, 1997
TIMES ART CRITIC
If the Municipal Art Gallerys going to have a popular hit this season it should be Hello Again: A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design. The exhibition presents about 1,000 objects ranging from monsters made of trashed auto tires to a couture evening gown fashioned from rusty bottle caps. There's a throne cobbled from wooden thread spools and furniture carpentered from a new kind of confetti-colored lumber that used to be plastic detergent bottles.
In short, this is the fun side of ecological disaster. Organized by the Oakland Museum, it’s the brainstorm of its guest curator, Berkeley journalist and product developer Susan Subtle Dintenfass. Somehow the provenance is just right. The Bay Area betrays a particular affection for revitalizing precious discards. Good thing there’s no catalog. That would wreck a pleasantly pixilated carnival ambience.
A grand entrance to the Barnsdall Park emporium is formed by bales of plastic wrap, newspaper and other salvageable stuff. It leads indoors to a ceremonial tower made of those magisterial green trash cans and yellow bins we all have in the backyard.
The show is parsed into thematic sections. The first reminds us there’s nothing new about recycling. A kind of historical hobo jungle, it contains folk art by tramps, prisoners and just about anybody with no money and a lot of discretionary time. Camel cigarette packs turn into origami containers. Thousands of wooden matchsticks make toys shaped like house, boat and grand piano. Wonder Bread wrappers are woven into rugs. Some clever soul mordantly made handsome lamps from artillery shells. Wooden cigar boxes are transformed into miniature furniture that looks like inlay from some exotic Arabian oasis.
At a glance it all recalls folk work made in Africa, Haiti or some other poor place. The resonance is especially strong in musical instruments of bamboo and gourd. Actually most pieces are anonymous, American and of recent date, confirming that this great nation has its own third world. The work is mesmerizing. It expresses a different conception of time, an obsessive determination to make something valuable out of other people’s trash. Admirable and sad, it makes much of the mainstream material look a little effete.
Artists called attention to America’s rising wastefulness in the Assemblage movement of the ‘50s. Local heroes like George Herms and Tony Berlant also are on board. They look a little too sophisticated here. More in the spirit of the thing are artists like Clayton Bailey. His aluminum utensil “Marilyn Monroebot” is estimably tasteless. Paul Di Pasqua’s “Salute to Mrs. --" depicts a mutant Mickey Mouse bricolaged of everything from Jell-O molds to pretty tin cans. Bob Kai Cheng’s “Berlin” captures the city’s tawdry soul in the jazz era. In fact much of the Assemblage has a retro-cartoon flavor nostalgic for the ‘30s.
Expensive designer fashions made from trash may appear a bit yuppified. Among many other things there’s chic S&M; wear from worn-out rubber tires, a spiffy jacket of old neckties, a shawl of shredded greenbacks and a slinky Jean Harlow cocktail frock made entirely of safety pins. Maybe the irony is intentional.
The lighting area is staged in a Moderne set-piece environment by designer Clare Graham. It’s so stylish it redeems some fairly gooney lamps. Out on the balcony one sees garden stuff. A fountain of cement and broken bottles in Watts Towers style is surrounded by robot insects the size of hogs. I didn’t notice any compost bins.
The design section is real clever. Wine goblets with bedspring stems and a footstool of coiled elevator cable are conversation pieces that leave one speechless. A chaise armored with a mosaic of soft drink cans is cute but how does it feel on a hot day? At the same time this is the place where recycled material is put to potentially practical use. High on recycling’s Most Wasted list, apparently, are those wooden pallets used to forklift building materials on construction sites. Made of perfectly good, study oak, they often wind up on landfills. Here the wood has been rescued to good purpose in tables and chairs.
Some consumer products on view betray no sign of using recycled material. A handsome kayak and couple of bikes look utterly new. Oh, goody. Let’s recycle so we can go right on consuming.
Entirely good-hearted, “Hello Again” is a perfect show for those of celebratory nature with a weakness for nostalgia, camp and funk. Recycling votaries too earnest to enjoy it are invited to a library provided for serious study.
* Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., through Saturday, closed Mondays and Tuesdays, (213) 485-4581.

c. 1973

Susie's 1997 Hello Again! art exhibition was a groundbreaking triumph that the New York Times called "an exuberantly populist look at recycling." The show opened at the Oakland Museum and swept across the country to major museums in Los Angeles, Texas, Vancouver, and North Carolina. In her curator's statement, Susie declared that "the purpose of this exhibit is to highlight the surprising and growing number of innovative and artistic uses of recycled materials." And then she added: "The only message we want to get across: remember to reduce, reuse, and recycle — and have a good time!" Susie's projects always included a way to "have a good time." During the pandemic Susie stayed home working hard on her new version of the Hello Again show, scheduled to open in Texas in 2021. I visited with Susie for several hours on May 11 after she called to say she hadn't been feeling well that morning. She spoke with her doctor but did not want to go to the hospital. After a while she'd improved and then said that she was very excited about something she wanted to share with me. "This is the dress I want to wear at the opening," she said, and held out a photo of a model in a colorful outfit made of a rough fabric that turned out to be deflated balloons. I laughed and asked if the dress was recycled. She showed me another photo. "Of course it's recycled, look what it does!" The entire dress puffed up and inflated! A perfectly recycled garment that returned to its original form. It's sad that she never got to wear it, but somehow I can picture Susie in that radiant inflated balloon dress, floating across the gallery and up into the sky, smiling and laughing, and having a good time.

Susie, the wild child. .

Susie with her aunt Helene and her brother John.

Susan with Jen and Sara Levin

In 1985 Susie had a regular spot on the KGO morning talk show, A.M. San Francisco, co-hosted by Jack Hanson and former Miss America, Nancy Fleming. On holidays, Susie would dress up in bizarre costumes, bring unusual product props, and give a surrealistic performance that's impossible to describe. The hardest part was getting Susie to the studio on time as she was not a morning person. I had to wake her up, drive her to the set, run through her script, and ease her stage fright. But once she was on camera, Susie was hilarious and totally unpredictable, a natural comedienne. Jack loved working with Susie but Nancy Fleming was usually horrified and uncomfortable. It was live TV, and one time Susie accidently stuck her hand into spinning blades while demonstrating a product and Nancy nearly fainted. Susie had an amazing tolerance for pain and went on with the show with her bloody hand as if nothing had happened. Most viewers thought it was a stunt but it was real! Another time composer Marvin Hamlisch was a guest, and when the show broke for a commercial Jack announced that Susan would be on next and Hamlisch instantly composed a little song on piano about "Crazy Susan Subtle." Susie tried to get the rights to it to no avail. I usually photographed the show and recently found some of these photos. On the Halloween show, Susie dressed as a giant pumpkin and played with a bony marionette. Nancy, at center, doesn't know why she has to hold Susie's inflatable skeleton on her lap.

A rubber chicken, plastic food, and trick light bulbs were props for Susie's April Fool's Day show.

KGO host Jack Hanson and Susie were a great team and really liked each other. The former TV weatherman was also a cartoonist and enjoyed the craziness of her performances.

A difference of style: Susie and Nancy Fleming in the KGO makeup room. Fleming was Miss America in 1961.

Susie in costume in the KGO dressing room. Her funny saddlebag purse is on the counter at right.

Susie had a script but once she was on camera, it was total improvisation!

It's hard to remember the theme, but Jack and Susie were having fun. It was like I Love Lucy meets Monty Python.

During Susie's April Fool's Day show, Nancy Fleming (in the background) looked confused about Susie's props, which included a wine cooler in the shape of a toilet bowl.

Subtle began her journalism career in 1974 with an article in Esquire Magazine titled "Their Arts Belong to Dada" featuring west coast fashion and art. The article featured artists Clayton Bailey, Lowell Darling, Anna Banana, Ant Farm (group), Futzie Nutzle, Dr. Brute & Lady Brute, Mr. Peanut, Irene Dogmatic, AA Bronson, Captain Video, Flakey Rrose Hip, Henry Humble, The Gluers, and Dickens Bascom, Don and Rae Davis, and T.R. Uthco.

thanks so much for putting both this site and running the zoom meeting, If you are in brooklyn give me a call 6463215713

I was responsible for Susie's hairdo for the last 40 yrs. She always thought she looked like a society matron and would giggle about it because, of course, on the inside she was anything but! It was like she was the naughty girl on the inside but on the outside she was all proper! Susan and I had connections through other friends who have passed over the years, like our friend Bobby Bluechler and Norman. Susan was a wonderful godmother to Sidonie and immediately connected us to Sidonie's parents, Babs and Bernard because we both adopted our daughters around the same time. I had the wonderful opportunity to spend time with Sidonie and her parents, in Paris, being wined and dined in their very chic apartment. Susan had a very sweet spot for Sidonie and my daughter, as well. It seems very unreal that Susan is no longer with us, but the memories of her will live on forever! xoxo Elaine

Tonight I made this collage from some of the memories of the historically significant and at the same time prescient “Hello Again” show emanating from the Oakland Museum in California and reaching out to major museums across the country. I’m so honored to have been selected to have my Film Jewelry piece (the blue necklace in the collage) thanks to Susan. The opening of this show (see the contact sheet in the collage) was one of the most spectacular ever in the SF Bay Area and well-known and lauded artists joined the 600 that were in the Oakland show when it travelled to around the country. (The excerpts and background are an article from the NY Times) Also as a result of this show, the LA Times featured my work (the yellow tinted picture) ~~~~~~ It was Susan’s open-minded adventurous spirit and “eye” that gave me a recognition I might not have otherwise been given and I thank you and join you to celebrate a one-of-a-kind curator and woman..

So kind, so funny, so original, so quirky. I always described Susan as a "connoisseur of the eccentric". She was always positive and supportive. A great pal. She will be sorely missed because she was truly irreplaceable. Nobody gave you the human feedback that Susan Subtle did.

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Susan Subtle and Mylez Brown - Golden State Warriors game - 2018

Susie was my beacon of how to live life with joy, playfulness & a little dose of fuck you. She was a mentor from the moment I had consciousness. I will miss you Susie Subtle.

Susie chatting with a mermaid at Coney Island, 2004

Jules Backus and Susie.

Susie and Mildred being silly.

Susan and my mom, Judith, at my 2005 wedding in Berkeley. (Only barely different than the one farther down this page captioned as including Naomi, but not mentioning the year or context)

Another already uploaded, just to expand on the caption. 1980, Susan and my mom, Judith Baker, as she files her dissertation in fulfillment of the requirements for her PhD...about 18 years after she entered grad school. In the sense that my mom had been collaborating as an equal with professors for years, the degree was a formality, and since filing was a completely bureaucratic event to which one wouldn't invite one's family, I think these photos never would exist but for Susan. As my mom's best friend, Susan knew how big a deal it was for my mom to have lifted this weight off her. I'm not sure, but I remember believing if not being told that the professional photographer was Susan's gift

The Normandy Village apartments, which Susan loved and lived in for 20 years, was designated a Berkeley landmark. Like the house she eventually bought and decorated on Panoramic Way, it testifies to her passion for surrounding herself in beauty and for her quirky arty taste--and shows that this thing about her went back a ways. (How far back others would know better than me. ) Here's some more about the building, a.k.a. Thornburg Village, after the architect http://berkeleyheritage.com/berkeley_landmarks/thornburg.html

I think this will be the last I'll try to share from the contact sheet of Susan in her Normandy Village apartment in Berkeley c. 1980. It occurs to me now that before these were taken she lived on the ground floor. That could have been as early as the late sixties, because I remember crawling in the courtyard as an infant...and that Susan paid (appropriately) peanuts in rent, thanks to rent control and how long she'd lived there

Susan in her Normandy Village apartment in Berkeley (enlarged contact sheet image) c. 1980

Susan in her Normandy Village apartment in Berkeley (enlarged contact sheet image) c. 1980

Susan in her Normandy Village apartment in Berkeley (enlarged contact sheet image) c. 1980

Susan looking out from her Normandy Village apartment in Berkeley (enlarged contact sheet image)

Just wanted to add some context to this already uploaded snapshot of Susan at my post-bar mitzvah luncheon in the very early eighties in Berkeley. Susan is hamming it up or else ostentatiously embracing her role as wing-woman to the host, my mom, by presenting here evidence of the quality of the spread and the catering. My mom had never hosted anything like this kind of thing, she was recently separated, and Susan was my mom's best friend.

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Susan in the late eighties or early nineties on one of my mom's visits back to the Bay Area, at the home of my uncle and aunt, where she often joined in family gatherings

ROY DEFOREST AND JACK LEVINE DISCUSS DOGS, POLITICS AND ART -1998 - by Betty Bailey - Watercolor on paper. 11" x 14" Jack Levine, a famous New York painter, visits Susan often. She brought him out to see our house and studio and then we all went next door to visit Roy DeForest. Jack and Roy talked Art, Politics and Dogs. Jack does not like the country and probably won't visit again. Jack Levine, Roy DeForest, Josephine Rigg, Susan Subtle and Betty Bailey

SUSAN SUBTLE AT THE WHITE ELEPHANT SALE - 1998 - by Betty Bailey. March 3, l998 - Watercolor Pencil on Paper l7" x l4"

Susie riding a giant tortoise at Joshua Tree . . . (we weren't in a hurry. . .)

Road Trip: In 79 or 80, we went to Zion National Park and had some lovely hikes. Susie loved the outdoors!

Susie and Charlie on the road: We went to the Eastern Sierras on this trip and found so many unusual places and people. Susie loved traveling.

Road Trip: Back in the 80s, I took Susie to Lake Powell and we rented a boat and had a lot of fun on the water.

Road trip: Susie and I visited the old ghost town of Bodie.

On the road: Susie looking very cute in her leather jacket . . .

Susan Subtle attends the funeral of an old friend. Watercolor on Paper by Betty Bailey - 14" x 20" TO COMMEMORATE A FRIEND'S LIFE: Susan told me this story. A friend who wore animal print clothes her whole life passed away. To commemorate her passing at the funeral, Susan and five other friends dressed appropriately. The other guests were quite amused.

Susie and her Aunt Frankie and Cousin David

Oh no…life without our Susie, my Soozee is a nasty thing to contemplate. Soozee, you’ve got to always be here. You’re the only person who’s ever constantly surprised me; you pushed my brain farts furthest and loudest. The crazy worlds we created together, and our delight in them…alas. Ouch. Life’s Green Screen? All of us, your crazy friends, extended family; we’re lightening illuminations you ignited. Your awesome irreverence, Constantly creating contacts and wackadoodle in sacred scary electric beautiful and most frighteningly enticing environments. Lavender Leopard Ladies Who Lunch (with Helen and Olive). Hello Again, Again. And Again. Bed-top picnic Warrior-watching. Adoration of sumo rikishi physiques. Dream plans for 80th birthday camelback treks. We were the last fan-girls of Miss America. I miss you and honor you with every polka dot of my heart.

Susie and her nephew Matt - early 2010s

Susan, Franklin Mieuli, and Blake Green. Susie and Blake wear Koos Van Den Akker dresses.

Lowell Darling, Susan Subtle, Clayton Bailey 2013

Susie and her father, Arthur

Susan's front door

Susie and Andy - October 2015

Susie's living room - September 22, 2019

Sunset from Susie's living room.

Susie arrived by chariot when she came to visit me in Coney Island . . .

Susie and painter Jack Levine, San Francisco, 2003

Susie and Charlie, "On The Road," Arizona Meteor Crater, 1979

Susie and "Big Red"

Will try to pick one or two stories to share. Kathy Bridges, The Gone Girl

Susie and I went to visit Clayton and Betty. We ate chocolate cake with strawberries and Clayton and I played our harmonicas (until we were told to stop!). It was a lively afternoon.

Susie and I met in the late 1960's. Susan introduced me to Raymond Saunders and Jacob Lawerence. I became friends with both and so many other wonderful and of quirky people. I made clothes for her during that time and curtains for her two different apartments on Spruce St. She and I along with Melinda Barbera would hang out at night. On a Susan's door was a sign that said day sleeper. The three of us would make dinner that would begin at 10:00 PM. When my twins were born Susan brought me a present-- an Album by the Chambers Brothers, Time. We talked several times a week about everything. She was certain that Trump would not be re-elected this year. We would go on and on about the sad state of the world. She loved my family and they loved her.

photo by Artist Raymond Holbert

Susie standing in front of Betty Bailey's drawings - U.S. Blues art gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Susie with Lewis Watts - 2014

Susie with Lewis Watts - 2014

An old clipping pinned above Susie's desk . . .

Susie, Mildred Howard, and Mildred's grandson, Mylez Brown - Berkeley, 2018

Susan on her last Christmas (2019) at our house. She was adorned in various leopard skin prints, a very unusual shirt with a ruffled tail, and of course, out of frame, there were lots of polka dots on her socks and bag. As one of her gifts, she brought over one of her favorite catalogs, an entire catalog of brushes.

Susie in a hammock

Susan dancing with a stranger at the Ashkenaz, 2005. She twirled with such delight!

Michael, Will, Susie, and Matt watching the sunset . . .

Susie visits Coney Island!

Mylez Brown, Susan Subtle, Xavier Brown, and Ed Gilbert of Anglim Gilbert Gallery - at Mildred Howard's opening - 2010

Andy, Susie, and Matt

Susan and Clayton Bailey

Susie and an aeonium - a favorite succulent of hers for a period

Susan's front door

flowers by Susan - July, 2018

Susie and I in 1979 . . .

Susie and her succulents

Susie in her garden - 2010s

Susan was my friend for more than half a century. While I tore through many identities, she perfected a single unique and magical one. She made it look easy - to be in the moment while also attentive to the world she was shaping and sharing - her "projects," her home (a work of art in itself), her succulent garden, and her wonderful friends and family. Susan was the party, or perhaps the ringmaster who saw our gifts and pulled us into her Big Top. As she wished to be amused, one very much wanted to be charming and clever. Even those of us who were not in the habit of being joyful could rise to the occasion – making silly jokes, dancing, singing, and strutting our stuff. She loved us very much, and taught us by example that "being yourself" takes imagination, discipline, and a little help from your friends.

Up on the Roof ~ Susan Subtle, David Schwartz, Minerva & Louis Schwartz ~ Mid-90's

David and I met Susie in the mid-70’s through Jules. In recent years we shared a Cal Performance season subscription. About now we would be picking out what we would see for next season, either together, in dyads, or Susie would have something in mind for herself and a guest. No season for us next year due to the virus and now we have lost our dear, fun, Susan. Susan was a fiercely, loyal friend. Always looking for ways to connect people with someone she would know who could be helpful to a project or whatever she thought would be of benefit. She always remembered birthdays – in recent years with those crisp $2 bills. We have many tchotchkes gleaned by Susie – a plastic wind up Jimmy Carter peanut toy, a plastic cowboy boot cup to name a few, still hold places of “honor” on Arch street along with a ½ dozen packages of “Hello Again” postcards, a couple of “How to Have Fun With Your Body” books and more….Susie wasn’t only all about fun. About 15 years ago she helped me put together an event to raise funds for a nonprofit I worked for. Located in central Richmond it provided a range of services for homeless people, folks with mental illness, mostly minority and all down and out folks. Our Rubicon bakery provided jobs and training. To promote the mission, we put together a recipe contest, with the highlight, an event to announce the winner. Susie, contacted and brought in her chums, several high, profile food luminaries and artists, to help make the event a success. And we ate a lot of cake. I once heard that when someone dies, the part of who you were with that person also goes. I feel that with Susan, the loss of a certain irreplaceable playfulness. I miss her. I wish we had more time, but grateful for the time we had.

I ‘m still in shock about Susie’s passing since we are cousins & most recently friends after years separated & grew up together as children..... she made me laugh a lot which I cherish the most! Stupid talk & giggles really! I’m really sad to have lost her.......🧡💚❤️💜💙🤎😁

Joey Rigg and Peter Wilkie wedding reception party - Susan's house

Susan Subtle chats with Clayton Bailey - Roy DeForest show

Susan and Ann Harithas share a laugh

Mildred Howard and Susan Subtle with family

Thanksgiving - Top: Susan (in dots), Charles Denson, Adi Gevins (also in dots), Chris Knowlton, Steve, Xavier Brown, Matthew Dintenfass - Bottom: Rio, Balazs Gardi, Shoka Javadiangilani

Suzie loved polka-dots SF - 2009

Susie and dear friend Betty Bailey

Susan and Kate Canning on a boat - 2016 Photo - Charlie Denson

One thing the obit didn’t mention was what a great mentor Susan could be, and was to me anyway. I never would have opened my little Garage Gallery without her enthusiastic encouragement. Her support included introducing me to artists like Robert Armstrong, Mark Bullwinkle, Lowell Darling, Irene Dogmatic, all of whom showed with me.

Susan, Naomi, Ian - 1997 - Oliver Baker PhD party - North Berkeley

Susan Subtle and Tony Warren - 1995

Susie on a panel for Hello Again!

I apologize for the cryptic captions for the photos with my byline, and seeming lack of feeling. Actually those were kindly posted on my behalf, after I discovered that my own attempts had failed, and my notes with them were deleted. I'll come back to with more to say about them...if this note successfully uploads

I am 39. I have known for at least a couple of decades that Susie IS one of the coolest humans on planet earth. And while she was alive, it was easy to define 'cool' as 'she knew amazing people.' Or 'oh my god, her house and all its art & objects are incredible! Oh and the view!' or 'she wears leopard print walking through a stuffy neighborhood.' And so on. ... but thinking more the past couple of weeks after reading an article on coffee she JUST sent. After JUST purchasing a lazy susan to put a TV on in our bedroom... I realized it wasnt all the cool shit she's done that made her so loved. It was how good she made her friends feel. The $2 bills; the meaningful little trinkets she found and sent; the postcards; the effort she made to make any visit perfect - beer, coffee, food, activities - always (maybe too?) well thought-out. The interest in my interests. She always made me feel special and loved. Thanks, Susie. Love you.

Susan at my Bar Mitzvah

Susan's apartment at "Normandy Village" a quirky landmark apartment structure in Berkeley that she lived in before rent control disappeared

Susan visiting Judith's Summer house on Grizzly Peaks

Naomi, Judith, Susan

Susan and I shared three icons: the moon, the giraffe and the elephant. We loved to categorize people we knew: on the earth, on the moon, and on the way to the moon. We considered ourselves both on the way to the moon, but she, the giraffe, was always stretching toward the moon, while I, the elephant, too often felt the tug of the earth.

Suzie on the phone

Susan and Judith Baker

Thanksgiving table

Susie's colorful world

Susan and her flowers

Susan with Peter Wilkie

This is such a saddening shock. We are never ready for this, and given Soozie's zest and joy for life, it seems really really wrong. I say "Soozie" because I remember when we both got printed stationary as freshmen and she was Soozie and I was Lynda with a Y. That shows how young and sort of silly we were! We both played in the marching band at ACHS. We exchanged areograms during her first trip to Europe. I stayed over at her first apartment in NYC on my first solo trip to the big city. So sophisticated! She said she wasn't subtle but she was! Her sense of humor was keen, sly and knowing -- so tuned in to what few of us could see until she showed us it existed. I loved visiting at her parents' home and knowing both her brothers. She was eternally young and her delight in the ridiculous and the unexpected injected more fun and laughter in the world... exactly what we all need more of! She will be missed. I feel very, very sad.

she lives on, her unforgettable infectious laugh, her joie de vivre, her unique style, her unbounded enthusiasm...

I met Susan in 1967 In a Serbo-Croatian class, where whimsically we addressed each other in French. She was just shedding her Oxford life, her thesis on Yugoslav economics, and her philosopher husband, morphing into the future Subtle many of us knew and loved. At the time, she invited me on a road trip to LA. On the way back, driving through night at high speed in her tiny MGB, wind rushing past, semis looming on either side, Susan asleep in the passenger seat, I felt life so richly, joy so intensely, and I knew she had brought that about. So began my fifty plus years of Adventures with Susan and her power to light up life. I was a Sancho Panza to her Don Quixote, a Dr. Watson to her Sherlock Holmes, always intrigued, amused, amazed at her humor, her creativity, her quirks, her brilliance, her projects and her fabulous network of friends, until finally death did us part.

Ode to the Subtle One There once was a Polka-Dot Lady who lived on a Hill... She welcomed us ALL and it sure was a thrill... The House was truly unlike any other - Filled with Life, Love and Art and occasionally her Brother. She entertained us all and knew everyone in Town... And was first in line at playing the Clown ! Polka-Dots were her game, the Warriors her muse - And her Leg-of-Lamb you couldn’t refuse ! Her Spirit and Energy inspired us all... And her delightful irreverence made us ball ! She was One-of-a-Kind T H A T’ S for sure... And now life without her is harder to endure. WE LOVE YOU SUSIE F L Y B A B Y F L Y Love from the Gualala Boyfriends Mike Steele Matt Batanian

Big Red and company

Susie's garden

Susie's wall

Shoka, Balasz, Rio, Susie, Xavier - Thanksgiving 2016

My heart hurts, what an absolutely wonderful person. I had the pleasure of getting to know "Aunt Susie" over numerous gatherings of the Pot Pie Dinner Club back in my Berkeley days. Great food, exquisite company, wild conversation. Miss you Susie.

On a giraffe

My SOUL Aunt Susan. Full Of Love,Light And Laughter. Always And Forever. Thank You From The Bottom Of My Heart. -XAVIER

Anyone have a good photo of Susie in polka dots they can share? ❤️

Susan and Jose

Susan was absolutely unique. She will be missed by many.

I have so many memories after 50+ years of Susie. They have been flooding my thoughts these late few days. I will sort through them and make a bouquet as we create this together. Thank you for starting this.

I met the Subtle One in 1978. She immediately took me under her expansive wing and has been my mentor, confident, most loyal friend and playmate for the past 40 years. Hard to imagine a world without her.

View from Susie’s garden.

This is a birthday letter from Susie. (I sent her the moon stamps.) Contents: two new 2 dollar bills and a recipe for chocolate prune loaf. I wish there were more letters in the mail.

Picture from an early Arch st. Halloween Party with Jose Vilar

Susie & Ornette- Back in the day I drove Susie to Davies Symphony Hall for a tribute concert to Ornette, who was still alive at the time. After the concert we went back stage and Ornette (whom I had never met before) for whatever reason goes down on a knee and kisses my hand (I was about to shake his) a complete surprise to me but I kissed his in return... it was just another "Subtle" moment.

Susan, Nikki Bridges, and ____ (let me know if you know who the third person is family@susansubtle.com)

Susan and British philosopher Paul Grice

Suzie and her nephew Matt at a Pakistani restaurant

Suzie, her good friend Charles Denson, and a llama

I never knew Susan Subtle but did know Soozie Dintnefass! We were ACHS classmates and friends 60+ years ago! She had the spark and edgy wit that must have continued to grow into the very special person she became. My condolences to her family and friends. Sheila Avrin McLean

Lots of pleasant memories of Susie.Her upbeat, fun spirit left a happy mood on everyone. Sending hugs & sympathy to her close friends and family.

Just a ps. Susie was our own Annie Hall.

I will always remember Susie as a warm wonderful friend with so much to offer! We haven’t been I touch for a very long time but her memory is one I will always cherish!! May she Rest In Peace!!

Unforgettable high school classmate who was always unique and fun. RIP❤

Susan was an original. She was a creative, out of the box thinker. She was also a wonderful friend. We have been in touch since grammar school. In the late seventies we collaborated on the book “Atlantic City:125 Years of Ocean Madness.” She will be missed by many, including me. A final thought. When my mom died in 1991 in San Francisco, Susie knew she loved leopard, so she came to the funeral as a tribute, donned in fake leopard. That was Susie! Vicki Gold Levi

Lots and lots of loving phone calls.

Susan's home where she loved to host her friends