Michelle Massey

Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn

Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn On view in the Mezzanine Gallery September 14, 2019 – March 22, 2020 Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series, Ben-Zion’s full 1980 […] Read more

Soviet Posters from TMORA Collection

Soviet Posters from TMORA Collection On view in the Main Gallery September 14, 2019 – February 23, 2020 The exhibition Soviet Posters from TMORA Collection brings together approximately sixty works by Soviet artists from the 1940s-1980s. This first exhibition of Soviet posters housed by TMORA draws on several private donations, now in the museum’s permanent collection. […] Read more

Treasures of Memory and Hope

Treasures of Memory and Hope On view in the main gallery July 20-30, 2019 The Museum of Russian Art, in partnership with St. Sahag Armenian Church, presents a special pop-up exhibition in the main gallery – Treasures of Memory and Hope. After the Armenian Genocide, many survivors and their descendants settled in Minnesota and made this welcoming […] Read more

Village Wardrobes: Traditional Dress from Western and Central Ukraine

Village Wardrobes: Traditional Dress from Western and Central Ukraine On view in the Lower Gallery – June 22nd, 2019 through November 3rd, 2019 The exhibition Village Wardrobes: Traditional Dress from Western and Central Ukraine provides a fascinating overview of traditional clothing from ten different ethnographic regions in Ukraine. Dating from the late 19th to the mid-20th […] Read more

Surreal Promenade – Sergei Isupov

Surreal Promenade – Sergei Isupov A dog with a human hand for a body, a chameleon with a human profile, and a pensive bear drinking a friendly cup with a soldier:  these are some examples of the creatures that inhabit the universe of Sergei Isupov, the Russian born, Massachusetts based sculptor and painter. Exploring painterly figure-ground relationships […] Read more