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Like An Eternity

Sergei Isupov
2022
porcelain, slip, glaze
13.5 x 10 x 9

Sergei Isupov, “Momentary Darkness”, 2022, porcelain, slip, glaze, 14 x 10 x 8″
Sergei Isupov, “Momentary Darkness”, 2022, porcelain, slip, glaze, 14 x 10 x 8″

Momentary Darkness

Sergei Isupov
2022
porcelain, slip, glaze
13.5 x 10 x 9

Sergei Isupov, “Like an Eternity”, 2022, porcelain, slip, glaze, 13.5 x 10 x 9″
Sergei Isupov, “Like an Eternity”, 2022, porcelain, slip, glaze, 13.5 x 10 x 9″

Marriage for the Ages

Sergei Isupov
2022
porcelain, slip, glaze
14 x 10 x 8

Sergei Isupov, “Marriage for the Ages”, 2022, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 12 x 11.5 x 11″.
Sergei Isupov, “Marriage for the Ages”, 2022, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 12 x 11.5 x 11″

Nature is Within Us

Sergei Isupov
2022
porcelain, slip, glaze
12 x 11.5 x 11

Sergei Isupov, “Nature is Within Us”, 2022, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 13.5 x 12 x 10″.
Sergei Isupov, “Nature is Within Us”, 2022, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 13.5 x 12 x 10″.

Full Moon Addiction

Sergei Isupov
2022
porcelain, slip, glaze
13.5 x 12 x 10

Sergei Isupov, “Full Moon Addiction”, 2022, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 13 x 11 x 13″.
Sergei Isupov, “Full Moon Addiction”, 2022, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 13 x 11 x 13″.

Past & Present Installation

Sergei Isupov
2022
mixed media, wood, metal, paper, paint, ceramic
130 x 80 (133 x 88 framed)

Sergei Isupov: Past & Present, 2022, Installation View

ADDITIONAL WORKS

Coffee & Milk

Sergei Isupov
porcelain, slip, glaze
59.5 x 26 x 16

Sergei Isupov, “Coffee and Milk”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, 59.5 x 26 x 16″.
ICAF 2022, Gardiner Museum, Installation View featuring Sergei Isupov
Sergei Isupov, “Coffee and Milk”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, 59.5 x 26 x 16″.
Sergei Isupov, “Coffee and Milk”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, 59.5 x 26 x 16″.
Sergei Isupov, “Coffee and Milk”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, 59.5 x 26 x 16″.

On the Way

Sergei Isupov
2022
porcelain, slip, glaze
58.5 x 38 x 18

On the Way is one of a pair of related, multi-figured, life-sized sculptures produced over several months in 2019-2020. These works strangely, foreshadow the present situation in Ukraine.

“Most of my work depicts human relationships through contrasts and comparisons which makes it easy for anyone to find messages or meanings that may or may not be my original intention. Upon reflection, it is easy to connect the expressions, gestures and movements to current events but in reality, all my work comes out of my life experience – growing up during USSR, experiencing its breakup and the establishment of fifteen independent countries – followed by coming to America as a young artist in the 90’s.”

Sergei Isupov: Past & Present, 2022, Installation View
Sergei Isupov, “On the Way”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, 58.5 x 38 x 18″.
Sergei Isupov, “On the Way”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, 58.5 x 38 x 18″.
Sergei Isupov, “On the Way”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, 58.5 x 38 x 18″.
Sergei Isupov, “On the Way”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, 58.5 x 38 x 18″.

FIGURES

Sergei Isupov, “Hidden Messages”, Erie Art Museum, Installation View
Sergei Isupov, “Slow Dance” 2018, stoneware, 12.5 x 11 x 6″.
Sergei Isupov, “Silver Anniversary”, 2019, porcleain, slip, glaze, 15.5 x 9.5 x 7″.
Sergei Isupov, “Burden” 2018, stoneware, 14 x 13 x 6.5″.
Sergei Isupov, “Collection of Experiences”, 2012, porcelain, 16 x 12 x 6.6″
Sergei Isupov, Flying in a Dream, 2014, porcelain, slip, glaze, 12 x 16.5 x 11″.

Burden II

2021
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
15.5 x 15 x 6.5

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

Growth Rings

2016
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
23 x 10 x 6.5

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

Hidden Messages

2016
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
22.5 x 8.5 x 8

Sergei Isupov, “Hidden Messages” 2016, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 22.5 x 8.5 x 8″.
Sergei Isupov, “Hidden Messages”, 2016, porcelain, slip, glaze, 22.5 x 8.5 x 8″

The Challenge

2012
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
24.5 x 10 x 8.5

Sergei Isupov, “The Challenge” 2012, reverse, porcelain, slip, glaze, 24.5 x 10 x 8.5″.
Sergei Isupov, “The Challenge” 2012, reverse, porcelain, slip, glaze, 24.5 x 10 x 8.5″.

HEADS

Sergei Isupov, “Sight Unseen” 2015, porcelain, slip, glaze, 11 x 19 x 6.5″.
Sergei Isupov, “Output” 2018, porcelain, slip, 7 x 8 x 4″.
Sergei Isupov, “Sound in the Head” 2018, stoneware, 12.5 x 9.5 x 8″.
Sergei Isupov, “Bolero”, 2016, porcelain, slip, glaze, 15.5 x 9 x 8″
Sergei Isupov, “Watchman in the Wind” 2018, porcelain, slip, 7.5 x 9.5 x 3″.
Sergei Isupov, “Sight Unseen” 2015, porcelain, slip, glaze, 11 x 19 x 6.5″.

Sound in the Head

2018
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
12.5 x 9.5 x 8

Sergei Isupov, “Sound in the Head” 2018, stoneware, 12.5 x 9.5 x 8″.
Sergei Isupov, “Sound in the Head” 2018, stoneware, 12.5 x 9.5 x 8″.

Sight Unseen

2015
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
11 x 19 x 6.5

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

Bolero

2018
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
15.5 x 9 x 8

Sergei Isupov, “Bolero”, 2016, porcelain, slip, glaze, 15.5 x 9 x 8″
Sergei Isupov, “Bolero”, 2016, porcelain, slip, glaze, 15.5 x 9 x 8″

Output

2018
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
7 x 8 x 4

Sergei Isupov, “Output” 2018, porcelain, slip, 7 x 8 x 4″.
Sergei Isupov, “Output” 2018, porcelain, slip, 7 x 8 x 4″.

ANDROGYNY

Sergei Isupov, “Seeds” 2009, stoneware, 29 x 19 x 18″.
Sergei Isupov, “Horsepower” 2009, stoneware, 32 x 19 x 17″.
Sergei isupov, “Busker”, 2009, stoneware, stain, glaze, 28 x 22.5 x 12″
Sergei Isupov, Boxer, 2009, stoneware, stain and glaze, 26.5 x 24 x 17″
Sergei Isupov, “Guardian”, 2009, sonteware, slip, glaze, 25.5 x 20 x 17.5″

Busker

2009
stoneware, stain, glaze
28 x 22.5 x 12

Sergei isupov, “Busker”, 2009, stoneware, stain, glaze, 28 x 22.5 x 12″
Sergei isupov, “Busker” detail, 2009, stoneware, stain, glaze, 28 x 22.5 x 12″

Bullseye

2009
sonteware, slip, glaze
28.5 x 17 x 17

Sergei Isupov, “Bullseye” 2009, stoneware, 28.5 x 17 x 17″.
Sergei Isupov, “Bullseye” 2009, stoneware, 28.5 x 17 x 17″.

Boxer

2009
stoneware, stain, glaze
26.5 x 24 x 17

Sergei Isupov, “Boxer” 2009, stoneware, stain, glaze, 26.5 x 24 x 17″.
Sergei Isupov, “Boxer” back view, 2009, stoneware, stain, glaze, 26.5 x 24 x 17″.

Guardian

2009
sonteware, slip, glaze
25.5 x 20 x 17.5

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″

LARGE WORKS & INSTALLATIONS

Sergei Isupov: Past & Present, 2022, Installation View
Sergei Isupov: Proximal Duality, 2022 Installation at Turnpark Art Space, West Stockbridge, MA
Sergei Isupov, “Hidden Messages”, Erie Art Museum, Installation View
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Sergei Isupov
Sergei Isupov, “Risen” 2016, stoneware, slip, glaze, 8′.

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AVAILABLE FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Sergei Isupov, “Complementary” 11/30, 2000, vitreograph, siligraphy print from glass plate, intaglio, 8 x 10″, image 14 x 16″.
Sergei Isupov, “Complementary”, 2000, porcelain, 20 x 21 x 9″.

Complementary | Print & Sculpture | 2000

SERGEI ISUPOV

EXHIBITIONS

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PAST & PRESENT

2022 Solo Exhibition | Ferrin Contemporary | North Adams, MA

Sergei Isupov: Past & Present, 2022, Installation View
Sergei Isupov: Past & Present, 2022, Installation View
Sergei Isupov: Past & Present, 2022, Installation View
Sergei Isupov: Past & Present, 2022, Installation View
Sergei Isupov: Past & Present, 2022, Installation View

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ABOUT

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

Estonian-American, b. 1963 Stavropole, USSR,
lives and works between Cummington, MA, USA and Tallinn, Estonia

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 e, another survey solo in 2019 at the Russian Museum of Art in Minnesota.

“Coffee and Milk”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, 59.5 x 26 x 16″.

ON HIS WORK

Often called an erotic Surrealist for his daring representations of sexuality, relationships, and human encounter, Isupov takes narrative subject matter and merges it with ceramic sculptural form. Drawing on personal experience, and human observation, he creates works that integrate autobiography with universal narrative.

He states, “Everything that surrounds and excites me is automatically processed and transformed into…an artwork. […] The essence of my work is not in the medium or the creative process, but in the human beings and their incredible diversity. When I think of myself and my works, I’m not sure I create them, perhaps they create me.”

While the robust, and racially distinct facial traits make each sculpture unique, they also make the body of work capable of representing universal experiences. The bold color palette, heavily tattooed faces, and textured surfaces relate these works to the aesthetics of traditional Russian art, as well as to contemporary styles of illustration.

“My work portrays characters placed in situations that are drawn from my imagination but based on my life experiences.  My art works capture a composite of fleeting moments, hand gestures, eye movements that follow and reveal the sentiments expressed.  These details are all derived from actual observations but are gathered or collected over my lifetime.  Through the drawn images and sculpted forms, I capture faces, body types and use symbolic elements to compose, in the same way as you might create a collage.  These ideas drift and migrate throughout my work without direct regard to specific individuals, chronology or geography.  Universalism is implied and personal interpretation expected.   Through my work I get to report about and explore human encounters, comment on the relationships between man and woman, and eventually their sexual union that leads to the final outcome – the passing on of DNA which is the ultimate collection – a combined set of genes and a new life, represented in the child.”

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Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT Exhibition Catalog

Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present new works from internationally renowned sculptor Sergei Isupov. Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT features new ceramic sculptures presented with both a multi-dimensional, mixed-media wall installation and independent pedestal-based works. Isupov and Ferrin Contemporary have been working together and presenting exhibitions internationally since 1996 and this will be the artist’s third solo show in our North Adams gallery location.

  • Catalog release: November 1, 2022.
  • 26-page, full-color catalog
  • Installation Images & Artwork Highlights
  • Exhibition Release, Show Statements, & Artist Bio-CV

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SERGEI ISUPOV ALLIANCES, 2023 Exhibition Catalog, cover. Design by Erica Pritchett. CopyrightŠ 2023 and published by Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH

SERGEI ISUPOV: ALLIANCES Exhibition Catalog

PURCHASE THE CATALOG HERE SERGEI ISUPOV: ALLIANCES Exhibition Catalog Thorne/Sagendorph Art Gallery Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present new works from internationally renowned sculptor Sergei Isupov. SERGEI ISUPOV: ALLIANCES Isupov's artworks form alliances with one another as they move between media, explore scale, and are presented in curated exhibitions. Recent opportunities to create public worksContinue reading →

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The Clay Studio: Figuring Space Exhibition Catalog

The Clay Studio: Figuring Space Exhibition Catalog

Figuring Space Exhibition Catalog The Clay Studio: Figuring Space Publication Date: January 2023. This catalog features highlights on the artists in the exhibition and includes commentary by Jennifer Zwilling, Curator & Director of Artistic Programs at TCS, and Dr. Kelli Morgan, who are working together to make Figuring Space relevant to our audiences and the art historicalContinue reading →

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Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay

Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay

Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay Explore the human form in-depth, from concept sketches and armatures to detailed instructions for constructing legs, torso, arms, hands, and head from clay. In Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay, renowned sculptor and instructor Cristina CĂłrdova teaches everything you need to know to replicate the full human figure usingContinue reading →

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Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT Exhibition Catalog

Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT Exhibition Catalog

Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT Exhibition Catalog Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present new works from internationally renowned sculptor Sergei Isupov. Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT features new ceramic sculptures presented with both a multi-dimensional, mixed-media wall installation and independent pedestal-based works. Isupov and Ferrin Contemporary have been working together and presenting exhibitions internationally sinceContinue reading →

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About Face: Contemporary Ceramic Scultpure Catalog

About Face: Contemporary Ceramic Scultpure Catalog

About Face: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture About Face: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture   This catalog features a foreword by Director Angie Dodson and two essays: one by Glenn Adamson, an expert in craft, ceramic, and contemporary art, and one by MMFA Curator of Art Jennifer Jankauskas, Ph.D. The exhibition catalog also includes color photography of select works inContinue reading →

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RAM COLLECTION FOCUS: Sergei Isupov

RAM COLLECTION FOCUS: Sergei Isupov

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION February 23 - June 8, 2014 Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI A mid-career retrospective for an innovative artist who has pushed the possibilities of clay by combining two-dimensional narrative with three-dimensional ceramic form. Isupov explores the human condition. His vocabulary includes human beings and animals, gender, identity, and relationship issues, autobiography, artContinue reading →

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EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes figural ceramic sculpture from 1970 to the present

EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes figural ceramic sculpture from 1970 to the present

EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes figural ceramic sculpture from 1970 to the present Work by 25 contemporary artists “working in clay and for whom the figure has been a rich and enduring motif.” Catalog includes work from the exhibit at Ferrin Contemporary as well as pieces available from private collections and artist studios. Introduction byContinue reading →

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Sergei Isupov: 1996-2006

Sergei Isupov: 1996-2006

Sergei Isupov, "Ring of Fire", 2004, porcelain, 20 x 10 x 8". Sergei Isupov: 1996-2006 Published in 2006 by Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA This visual survey marks the tenth anniversary of the working relationship between the artist and Ferrin Gallery. Features works from 1996–2006 with short biographical essay and curriculum vitae. Sergei Isupov Catalog 1996-2006Continue reading →

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Sergei Isupov: Androgyny

Sergei Isupov: Androgyny

Sergei Isupov, "Say Nothing", 2008, stoneware, stain, glaze, 33 x 16 x 11". Sergei Isupov: Androgyny Published in 2009 by Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa AZ • Essay by Sonya Bekkerman, Senior Vice President, Russian Art, Sotheby’s • Introduction by Patty Haberman, Curator, Mesa Contemporary Arts • Project Summary by Leslie Ferrin, Director, Ferrin GalleryContinue reading →

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