Scherer & Ouporov
American-born Suzanne Scherer and Russian-born Pavel Ouporov are a collaborative team who met while studying at the Moscow Surikov State Academy Art Institute. They create exquisite gold leaf and jewel encrusted paintings influenced by medieval painting and manuscript illumination, Russian and Symbolist art history and poetry and contemporary figurative realism. The works incorporate their on-going interest in archetypal iconography such as the Tree of Life and the Celestial Alphabet as well as the universal aspects of mythology and fairytales.
Their works are in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; New York Public Library, NY; The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; Evansville Museum of Arts, Evansville, IN and Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Art, Russia among others.
They have had numerous exhibitions at museums including the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, MOCA Goldman Warehouse, Miami, FL; Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Historical Museum of the City of Vienna; Passage de Retz, Paris and Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA among others. Their work has been reviewed in Art In America, ArtNews, The New York Times, The New Yorker and featured on PBS and Public Affairs Television. Their paintings are included in the 2007 monograph Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections (Prestel, NY).
Scherer & Ouporov are represented by ACA Gallery in New York and Arden Gallery in Boston. They currently reside in South Florida.
Language of the Birds, 2008
24 x 18 inches
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Crystallization, 2008
24 x 18 inches |
The Gift, 2007
24 x 18 inches |
The Dream of the White Peacock
24 x 18 inches |
Tsarina-Swan, 2009
24 x 18 inches |
Onorina and Silvershod, 2009
18 x 24 inches |