- Opening Reception: Friday, April 25 | 6-8 PM
- Free, Illustrated Artist Talk: Saturday, April 26 | 1 PM
- Workshop | FIGURE: Form + Surface with Sergei Isupov, April 26-27, 2025
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
This April, District Clay Center (DCC) is honored to invite you to a solo exhibition and weekend workshop with internationally-renowned artist Sergei Isupov. Isupovâs
Moments from Eternity features a selection of free- standing ceramic sculptures alongside a new wall installation created for the exhibition. FIGURE: Form + Surface, the corresponding workshop, will allow participants to learn the techniques Isupov uses to sculpt these porcelain masterworks.
PROGRAMMING
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday April 25, 6-8 PM
District Clay Center
Join District Clay Center for the opening reception of “Moments from Eternity” âwith Sergei Isupov! Attendees will hear Isupov discuss his work on view.
The reception will take place at 6 PM on April 25 at District Clay Center in central Washington DC. During the reception, Isupov will give an introductory artist talk and discuss his work on view. Following the lunch break on Saturday, Sergei will give an illustrated talk featuring images of his studio practice and feature select works from throughout his career. Both talks will provide context for the techniques students learn during the workshop. The reception and artist talk will be open to the public.
Illustrated Artist Talk
Saturday, April 26, 1 PM
District Clay Center
FREE | All Are Welcome
FIGURE: Form + Surface with Sergei Isupov
April 26-27, 2025, 10:00 AM â 5:00 PM
District Clay Center
In this weekend workshop with internationally renowned artist Sergei Isupov, students will learn how to build form and develop surfaces to create a portrait bust in clay. The workshop begins with a Friday night public gallery reception prior to demonstrations and hands-on instruction on Saturday and Sunday.
Intermediate, Ages 18 year+
$540.00 | $486.00(members)
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 ArtsâBoston, Museum of Fine ArtsâHouston, 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.
INQUIRE
Additional works may be available to acquire, but not listed here.
If interested in lists of all works and series: Send us a message