What types of art do you specialize in?

We specialize in contemporary ceramics from the 1950s onward, including clay and porcelain sculptures.

Do you offer collection services?

Yes, we work with private collectors and artist archives to organize, document, and appraise ceramic art collections for deacquisition or placement.

Can you help with exhibition development?

Absolutely, we collaborate with museums and cultural institutions to develop and present ceramic art exhibitions.

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Yes, we curate and organize touring exhibitions for contemporary ceramic artists.

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HEY! LE DESSIN | Ferrin Contemporary

Musee de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France | January 22 — December 31, 2022

more than 500 artworks
from 20 countries
by 113 artists

FEATURING WORKS BY

Sergei Isupov & Jason Walker

HEY! CERAMIQUE.S Exhibition Installation featuring Mara Superior, Chris Antemann, and Crystal Morey, Musee de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France, September 20, 2023 to August 14, 2024

HEY! Le Dessin marks ten years of rich and intense collaboration with La Halle Saint Pierre museum. The four previous HEY! exhibitions – which took place in 2011/12, 2013, 2015 and 2019 -, probed the contemporary notion of alternative and singularity, highlighting the various ways in which certain artists actively work on the margins of visible or recognized fields. Each exhibition featured over sixty international artists, many of whom had not previously exhibited in France or Europe. The ideas of “mixing through gathering” and “resistance through imagination” have been, since the creation of HEY! modern art & pop culture in 2010, guiding lines that irrigate its actions. Originally only a system of research, transfer or study, drawing has demonstrated since the 15th century its capacity to become an autonomous work of art. Nowadays, contemporary graphic activity is livelier than ever, and is reflected in a considerable quantity of drawings, produced with a great diversity of tools. Dedicated to drawing, this 2022 edition involves hundred and thirteen artists from about twenty different origins, amounting to nearly four hundred works on show. Drawing practices are observed here in a flow of expressions with composite, collusive or characteristic energy; it is not looked at in its sole quality of drawing, but approached according to its poetics, and through points of passage such as drawing as matrix, intermediary means or rehabilitating gesture. The heterogeneous and intuitive nature of the main theme opens on other mediums, and invites to question the source of the inspiration animating the artist, his graphic impulse, and the course produced by the work to finally exist

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HEY! LE DESSIN

Musee de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France | January 22 — December 31, 2022

HEY! Le Dessin, installation view with Sergei Isupov, 2022

SERGEI ISUPOV

Sergei Isupov, “Guardian”, 2009, sonteware, slip, glaze, 25.5 x 20 x 17.5″

Sergei Isupov, “Guardian”, 2009, stoneware, slip, glaze, 25.5 x 20 x 17.5″

Sergei Isupov, “Sight Unseen” 2015, porcelain, slip, glaze, 11 x 19 x 6.5″.

Sergei Isupov, “Growth Rings” 2016, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 23 x 10 x 6.5″.

Sergei Isupov, “Burden II”, 2021, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 15.5 x 15 x 6.5″.

JASON WALKER

HEY! Le Dessin, installation view with Jason Walker, 2022

Jason Walker, “Bloom”, 2019, porcelain, underglaze, china paint, 26 x 26 x 9″.

Jason Walker, “Living in Between”, 2020, porcelain underglaze and concrete, 13.5 x 10.5 x 6″

Artists Include 113 international artists:

David B. /France
Murielle Belin / France
Sébastian Birchler / France
Conrad Botes / South Africa
Marcos Carrasquer / Spain, France
Thomas Chauzy / France
Farid Chitrakar / India
Ryan Travis Christian / USA
Léonard Combier / France
Dave Cooper / Canada
Alphonse Eugène Courson / France
Darco / Germany
Stéphanie Denaes Lucas / France
Jessy Deshais / France
Daniel Martin Diaz / USA
Marie Noël Döby / France
Janko Domsić / Croatia, France
John Robert Ellis / USA
Erdeven Djess / France
Anaïs Eychenne / France
Émile Simonet dit Fanfan / France
Feuilles dessinées de la Grande Guerre / France
Samuel Gomez / Dominican Republic
Pierre Guitton / France
Matti Hagelberg / Finland
Ali Hazri Wennstrom / Singapore, France
Jason Herr / USA
Daisuke Ichiba / Japan
Toshihiko Ikeda / Japan
Sergei Isupov / Russia, USA
Anton Kannemeyer / South Africa
Kraken/ France
Hongmin Lee / South Korea
Laurie Lipton / USA
Loïc Lucas / France
François Monchâtre / France
Mina Mond / France
Shaun Morin dit Slomotion / Canada
Serge Paillard / France
José Parlá / États-Unis
Joseph Vignes dit Pépé Vignes / France
Mark Powell / England
Prophet Royal Robertson / USA
Roger Rice / USA
Huston Ripley / USA
Ron Roboxo / Netherlands
Aurel Rubbish / France
Steeven Salvat / France
Victor Simon / France
Amanda Smith / USA
Victor Soren / France
Diamantis Sotiropoulos / Greece
Jacques Spacagna / France
Marcel Storr / France
Masakatsu Tagami / Japan
Ionel Talpazan / Roumania, USA
Rebecka Tollens / Sweden
Morris Vogel / Switzerland
Davor Vrankić / Croatia / France
Jason Walker / USA
Frédéric Rodolphe dit Wollan / USA, France

Sergei Isupov Artist Portrait, 2021, Photo Credit: John Polak

SERGEI ISUPOV

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Sergei Isupov is an Estonian-American sculptor internationally known for his highly detailed, narrative works. 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 ceramics using traditional hand-building and sculpting techniques to combine surface and form with narrative painting using colored stains highlighted with clear glaze.

Isupov has a long international resume with work included in numerous collections and exhibitions, including the National Gallery of Australia, Museum Angewandte in Kunst, Germany, and in the US at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Everson Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Fine Arts–Boston, Museum of Fine Arts–Houston, Mint Museum of Art, and Racine Art Museum. In 2017, his solo exhibition at The Erie Art Museum presented selected works in a 20-year career survey titled Hidden Messages, followed by Surreal Promenade, another survey solo in 2019 at the Russian Museum of Art in Minnesota.

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Jason Walker Artist Portrait, 2019

JASON WALKER

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Jason Walker’s ceramic sculpture question how we perceive and decipher technology and nature within our changing world. He has exhibited and taught widely including at the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., Haystack Mountain School for the Crafts, Penland School for the Crafts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China and the International Ceramics Workshop, Kecskemet, Hungary, South Korea, Ireland and France.

“The culture I live in does not emphasize our physical connection and dependence on nature. The current ideology is reliant upon technology, and it promotes disembodied activity such as television [and] computers . . . The gap between man-made and natural is ever-increasing.”

Walker has been awarded a 2009 NCECA International Residency Fellowship and a 2014 Artist Trust Fellowship from Washington State, as well as the Taunt Fellowship award at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. His work is included in collections at the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco: De Young, the Carnegie Mellon Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramic Research Center, Tempe, Arizona and the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon.

Walker received a BFA from Utah State University and a MFA from Penn State University and is represented by Ferrin Contemporary, and currently resides in Cedar City, Utah and is Lecturer of Ceramics at Southern Utah University.

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EXHIBITION CATALOG PREVIEW

288 pages
Published by HEY! PUBLISHING

HEY! LE DESSIN, Musée de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France, January 22nd, 2022 – December 31st, 2022

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Musee de la Halle Saint Pierre

Paris, France

MUSEUM OF ART BRUT – OUTSIDER ART & POP CULTURE

Within a beautiful Baltard-style architecture, facing the gardens of the Butte Montmartre, the Halle Saint Pierre houses a museum and a gallery, a bookstore, an auditorium, a café. It is in this harmonious and luminous setting that the major temporary exhibitions and the multiple artistic and cultural activities dedicated to the most unexpected forms of creation are presented.