Sergei Isupov emigrated from Estonia in 1994 and now lives in Cummington, Massachusetts. Relatively unknown in the United States, he arrived with a long international resume with work in collections and exhibitions throughout Northern Europe and the Baltics. Sergei's current work is figurative in both form and content. His dreamlike, surreal narratives are self-portraits and auto-biographical.
Isupov's visual vocabulary includes many personal symbols - anatomically accurate hands, feet and hearts, animals representing the beast, torn sections of the body to reveal an inner thought or hidden element and tattoo style decorative painting. Isupov's work explores male and female relationships, which is often explored through graphic sexual images. He technically constructs his work in porcelain using traditional handbuilding and sculpting techniques; using stains and glazes to contrast areas of intense drawings in black and white areas with colorfully glazed and painted sections.
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