Mel Jacobson
Sergei Isupov?s work is figurative in both form and content. He creates sculptures combining human and animal elements, typically less than 3 feet high. He has created a small group of figures ...
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About
- Biography
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Sergei Isupov?s work is figurative in both form and content. He creates sculptures combining human and animal elements, typically less than 3 feet high. He has created a small group of figures that are 8 feet tall. Isupov depicts dreamlike surreal narratives most often illustrating self-portraits and autobiographical motifs. His work explores male and female relationships often including graphic sexual imagery.
Isupov constructs his porcelain or stoneware sculptures using traditional hand building and sculpture techniques. The tattoo-like drawings that cover the surfaces of his work sometimes turn into three-dimensional elements as a head, hand or leg grows out of the piece. He uses stains and glazes to create colorful sections that work in contrast to the areas of black and white drawings. For a period in the early 2000s, he worked on a series of larger than life heads that were used as canvases for his narratives.
In 1993 Isupov left the Soviet Union for the United States. He settled in Louisville, Kentucky with his first wife, Dana Major.An interview with Sergei Isupov conducted December 21 and 22, 2010 by Mark Shapiro, for the Archives of American Art?s Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America is available at:
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-sergei-isupov-15919.
" - Apprenticeships & Residencies
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1970s
Apprentice to Kunio Uchida, Kyoto, Japan
- Primary Work Experience
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1958-1992
Ceramic/Art Teacher, Hopkins Schools, Hopkins, Minnesota
Adjunct Professor of Art, University of Wisconsin System, Madison, Wisconsin
Director and Founder, Hay Creek Studios, Wisconsin
2000-2003Board of Directors, The Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Wayzata, Minnesota
Studio Potter, Minnetonka, Minnesota
Other
- Public Collections
- Bibliography
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Jacobson, Mel. 21st Century Kilns. Greatapes Corporation,2010.
Jacobson, Mel. “Beyond Basics: Using Your Legs.” Pottery Making Illustrated (November/ December 2004).
Jacobson, Mel. “Black Shino.” Ceramics Monthly (December 2000).
Jacobson, Mel. “Calligraphic Glazing: A Collaboration.” Clay Times (November/December 2000).
Jacobson, Mel. “Caufield Pottery.” Ceramics Monthly (April 2002).
Jacobson, Mel. “Look into Others and into Yourself.” Ceramics Monthly (December 1997).
Jacobson, Mel. “Oxygen Probes.” Pottery Making Illustrated (Spring 1999).
Jacobson, Mel. Pottery: A Life, a Lifetime. Westerville, OH: American Ceramic Society, 2004.
Jacobson, Mel. “Salt and Refractory Coatings.” Ceramics Monthly (December 1998).
Jacboson, Mel. “Shells of Porcelain: Work of Andy Kazukewicz”. Clay Times (May/ June 1999).
Jacobson, Mel. “Small Reduction Kilns for Home Potters.” Clay Times (September/October 1997).
Jacobson, Mel, “Spare Parts: Sanders.” Pottery Making Illustrated (January/ February 2005).
Jacobson, Mel. “Susan Karrasch.” Ceramics Monthly (December 1999).
Jacobson, Mel. “The Japanese Technique of Hump Throwing.” Pottery Making Illustrated (Fall 2000).
Jacobson, Mel. “Throwing a Basic Bowl.” Pottery Making Illustrated (November/ December 2004).
Jacobson, Mel. “Volcanic Ash Glazes.” Clay Times (November/ December 1996).
Jacobson, Mel and Kurt Wild. “Beyond the Basics: Building a Small Flat-Top Kiln.” Pottery Making Illustrated (March/ April 2005).
Turner, Anderson, ed. Electric Firing. Westerville, OH: American Ceramic Society, 2008.
Turner, Anderson, ed. Glazes and Glazing. Westerville, OH: American Ceramic Society, 2008.
Instructional videos with Mel Jacobson filmed in 2014, and assembled by Paragon Industries are available at:
- CV or Resume
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Herrera, Carolyn E.
- Website(s)
Citation: Herrera, Carolyn E. Mel Jacobson, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/mel-jacobson
Objects
Collections
American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
Pomona, California
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American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
Pomona, California
