Sergey Lavrentyev

Sergey Lavrentyev was born in 1960 in Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast. Since 1983, upon graduation from the Ivanovo Art College, he has been living in Vologda.

Lavrentyev has been upholding the European 20th-century avant-garde traditions started by the proponents of Primitivism, Expressionism, Abstractionism, and Pop Art. The artist works across the media of tempera, oil, acrylic, and batik painting in such genres as portrait, still life, and landscape, creating experimental compositions and collages out of wood, sand, bitumen, and iron and effectively conjuring the atmosphere of a new relevance and freedom of self-expression. Impromptu creativity is part of his trademark method: Lavrentyev improvises on the go, drawing portraits of friends and composing ingenious and amusing poems.