Sergei Isupov
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 2003
Sergei Isupov explores painterly figure-ground relationships, creating surreal sculptures with a complex artistic vocabulary that combines two- and three-dimensional narratives and animal/human hybrids. He works in ceramic, using traditional hand building and sculpting techniques to combine surface and form with narrative painting using stains and clear glaze.
He has been exhibited at Museum of Russian Art (MN), Ferrin Contemporary (MA), Racine Art Museum (WI), Erie Art Museum (PA), Perimeter Gallery (IL), HOP Gallery (Estonia), Barry Friedman Gallery Ltd. (NY), Art Museum of South Texas, Figge Art Museum (IA), Helen Day Art Center (VT), and the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CA), among others. Isupov has been in residence at Blue Line Arts (CA), University of Tallinn (Estonia), JamFactory (Australia), Archie Bray Foundation (MT), Littleton Studios (NC), and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry at Kohler Co. (WI), among others. His work is in the collections of Arkansas Center for the Decorative Arts, Arizona State University, Carnegie Museum of Art (PA), de Young Museum (CA), Oslo Museum of Applied Art (Norway), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Museum fur Angewandte, Kunst (Germany), and National Gallery of Australia, among others. He is represented by Ferrin Contemporary. Isupov received a BA and MFA in ceramics from Art Institute of Tallinn, Estonia and attended the Ukrainian State Art School in Kiev, Ukraine.
