Stass Shpanin

Stass Shpanin is a Soviet born, American contemporary visual artist.

Stass Shpanin was born upon May 16, 1990 in Baku – capital of Azerbaijan, one of the Soviet Republics.

As a teenager, Shpanin moved to Massachusetts in the United States, where he became keen in the archives of the Imperial Russia that was prohibited and untouched in the USSR for nearly anything of the 20th century. During his studies at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Shpanin created a project titled Trialectics, where he summative different layers of records in associated monumental compositions. After graduating in 2012, Shpanin travelled to Russia upon a U.S. Fulbright fellowship, where he both continued his visual research of pictorial representations of the gone and explored his personal membership to the records of pre-revolution Russia. His current put on an act is focused on fabricating American chronicles using elements of the folklore Fraktur tradition adroit by European immigrants in the United States.

Shpanin has exhibited his take effect internationally, including the Smack Mellon Art Gallery, the Jasper Rand Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, the ToBE Gallery, and the Gridchinhall Gallery, among others.