Sergey Pritchin — Summer Featured works of 2026
Artist Name
Sergey Pritchin
Artist Statement
Sergey Pritchin (PRITCHIN) — contemporary Artist.
Birth in 2004 years. Based in Moscow.
In 2020, I began studying graphic design at MPEK of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.
From June 2023 to July 2024, I worked as an illustrator at the "VIMBO" audio publishing house.
In October 2023, I completed the "Poster" course at the Typomania School of Graphic Design.
Since 2025, I have been a student at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, majoring in graphic design.
The focus of my research in art is defined by the question of the dominance of the emotional over the rational in the perception of the present and past environment. Combining current omnichannel media practices with expressive semi-abstract painting and drawing, I address the ongoing crisis in our ability to sense the impending, the present, and the past. The foundation of this research draws upon Austrian analytical philosophy and psychoanalysis. By contrasting the rational worldview with sensory perception, I define the latter as the dominant force in my art.
Mediums:
Painting, sculpture, installation, sound art.
Exhibition Statement
My works are semi-abstractions aimed at sensory perception — emotions, conveyed through powerful and vibrant painting that depicts fleeting scenes from my life. In them, I draw attention to seemingly routine objects and narratives that most people overlook, failing to appreciate the presence of being here and now — reality, much as it was a hundred years ago.
These scenes capture the boiling point of ordinary human perspectives. Through dialogue, linear, structural "Obyvalkins" reveal something new, causing the framework of their shadow to melt and liberating them from stereotypes and environment-imposed conditioning.
Who are the "Obyvalkins? "
They are typical people — citizens who behave automatically, remain deeply immersed in routine, fail to derive pleasure from simple things, and exist in an unreflective, broken state, acting as if they are held hostage by a script written by someone else. I mostly paint everything related to "Obyvalkins" and, of course, the figures themselves (rarely there are isolated objects without people, and more often than not, there is more than one person in a single scene).
I paint people in yellow, casting a shadow from them in the form of a triangle—representing their souls, the sincere component of a person.
The background is always black, because it reflects our memory, which outputs bursts of past recollections connected to us. The background is always black, because it reflects our memory, which outputs bursts of past recollections.
