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.
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