SERGEI ISUPOV: Ancestor

Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State University November 1 – February 18, 2025

Anderson Gallery

Bridgewater State University

40 School Street
Bridgewater, MA

November 1 through February 18, 2025

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION


Descending from Alliances, Ancestor unites a collection of old and new figurative works depicting a narrative of connection, evolution, and the parts of us that make up our human whole. Regardless of our backgrounds or where in the world we came to be, our shared experiences as humans are distributed, redefined, and woven from generation to generation. This conversation is ignited and energized between artworks and against a striking orange gallery wall– the inverse to the cool blue backdrop that set the tone in Alliances. 

A selection of works in the show will be exhibited directly from Sergei’s studio in Cummington, MA. These studio “sketches” – often created as maquettes for Sergei’s much larger public artworks – have rarely exhibited in a gallery space until now. 

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.

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Additional works may be available to acquire, but not listed here.

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