Sergei Isupov Current

18
Jun
2025
Sergei Isupov in “Sculpture at The Mount”, The Mount, 2025

Sergei Isupov in “Sculpture at The Mount”, The Mount, 2025

Sergei Isupov in “Sculpture at The Mount”, The Mount, 2025

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Sculpture at The Mount features works of contemporary outdoor sculpture in a range of media against the backdrop of the vibrant woods, gardens, and grounds of The Mount, the historic home of American novelist Edith Wharton.  The 2025 show, comprised of 25 large-scale, juried works, will be free and open to the public from dawn to dusk. A digital guide will be available in both English and Spanish, featuring artist statements recorded in their own words.

More on the Exhibition HERE

SCULPTURE AT THE MOUNT

The Mount – Edith Wharton’s Home | Lenox, MA | May 24 – October 19, 2025

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Posted by Isabel Twanmo in Artist News, Events
02
Apr
2024
Sergei Isupov and Kadri Pärnamets in Small Favors 2024 at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Sergei Isupov and Kadri Pärnamets in Small Favors 2024 at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Sergei Isupov and
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The 50th anniversary edition of Small Favors presents almost 500 small artworks displayed in 4-inch cubes. In the exhibition you will find big ideas, individuality, and material awareness. Some artists were invited, while others were selected from an applicant pool of over 1,000. To celebrate that this truly is an exhibition for everyone, the call was extended to artists using other media to create their art, including wood, metal, glass, fiber, paper, and paint. The majority of the works are examples of small ceramic artworks that range from tiny mugs to intricate sculptures. 

Artists represented in Small Favors range from the most established ceramic artists in the field, to young artists and students new to the material. Small Favors engages artists’ creativity in new and exciting ways with the challenge of making art on a very small scale. Some create works in their usual style, but at a reduced scale. Others use it as an opportunity to experiment and break away from what they create in their daily studio practice. 

This range of artists allows us to present works in a broad price range, from $35 to $4,500. We hope that this empowers people to become collectors, as well as helping established collectors continue to support artists.

More on the Exhibition HERE

More on Sergei Isupov HERE

More on Kadri Pärnamets HERE

Small Favors 2024

At The Clay Studio | Philadelphia, PA | April 11 – June 2, 2024

Posted by Isabel Twanmo in Artist News, Events, Exhibition, News
05
Apr
2023
Sergei Isupov and Kadri Parnamets in Small Favors 2023 at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Sergei Isupov and Kadri Parnamets in Small Favors 2023 at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Sergei Isupov and
Kadri Pärnamets in

Artists represented in this 17th edition of Small Favors range from the most established ceramic artists in the field, to young artists new to the field. Small Favors engages artists’ creativity in new and exciting ways with the challenge of making pieces on a very small scale. For some artists, the work they create is similar to what they normally make, but at a reduced scale. Others use it as an opportunity to break away from what they create in their daily studio practice. There is an open call each year for juried work, as well as a group of invited artists who participate. This year includes artworks coming from Japan, China, and Budapest in addition to those from around the United States.

More on the Exhibition HERE

More on Sergei Isupov HERE

More on Kadri Pärnamets HERE

Small Favors 2023

At THE CLAY STUDIO | Philadelphia, PA | April 29 – Jul 2, 2022

Sergei Isupov, “Principle 1,2, 3″, 2023, porcelain, slip, glaze, 3.5 x 3.5 x 3.5”.
Kadri Parnamets, “Frame of Mind”, 2023, porcelain, slip, glaze, 3.75 x 3.75 x 3.75″
Kadri Parnamets, “Frame of Mind”, 2023, porcelain, slip, glaze, 3.75 x 3.75 x 3.75″

PUBLIC EVENTS

PREVIEW RECEPTION

Friday, April 28th, 2023,  5pm – 8pm
Location: The Clay Studio
1425 N American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Cost / Admission : Free

Preview the almost 400 small artworks ranging from ceramics to wood, metal, glass, fiber, paper, and paint.

Learn more about the Preview HERE.

Posted by AxelJ in Artist News, Events, Exhibition, News
08
Jul
2022
Making History: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection

Making History: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection

Summer 2022 – Spring 2023

Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak Street
Brockton, MA

Featuring work by Sergei Isupov & Kadri Pärnamets

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Making History: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection features objects that have been acquired by Fuller Craft Museum since December 2020. Twenty artworks are included in the exhibition, representing a range of materials, techniques, subjects, and artistic innovations. Ceramic sculptures, basketry forms, hand-stitched textiles, blown glass objects and more illustrate the technical and expressive accomplishments of today’s craft artists.

Several of the works explore themes of identity and belonging, while others investigate social justice themes of racism, inequity, and political strife. Additional critical global issues being addressed include COVID-19 and the fragile balance between humans and the natural world. Many of the featured artists honor the traditions of craft, illustrating creative excellence that results from accumulated knowledge of their chosen medium, exceptional material intelligence, and highly developed handskills.

Sergei Isupov/Kadri Parnamets

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

SERGEI ISUPOV

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.

KADRI PÄRNAMETS

Kadri Pärnamets works in porcelain using traditional hand building and sculpting techniques to combine surface and form with narrative painting. Her biomorphic, organic forms provide a means to convey personal interests ranging from the fragile, natural environment to female identity. Focusing on gesture and expression, she selects known classics of female beauty by painters from the European Renaissance and Impressionist eras, like Lucas Cranach the Elder and Edouard Manet. Pärnamets has taught in the Estonian Art Academy and is a member of the Asuurkeraamika Studio, Estonian Artists Association, and Estonian Ceramist Association.

Pärnamets’ work has been shown internationally at Ferrin Contemporary, (North Adams, MA), the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, (Tallinn, Estonia), and at the International Tea Trade Expo, (Shanghai, China). Since 1996, she has participated in symposiums in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Switzerland, USA, Norway, and Hungary. In Pärnamets graduated from the Art Institute of Tallinn, Estonia in 1994 with a BA/MFA in Ceramics. Dividing her time between Estonia and USA, her primary studio is the USA at Project Art in Cummington, MA. She is represented by Ferrin Contemporary.

Posted by AxelJ in Blog, News