Alexander Prokopenko dreamed of being a sculptor since the early 1960’s as a boy in the Ural Mountains region of Russia. While his single mother worked as a trolley car driver, he occupied his time with clay and sculpted the characters he saw on television so he could rewrite their stories, and render them in a three dimensional tableau.

His first success at sculpture was learning that the truest depiction is not in the detail, but in the essence. Thus was born the “Saxophone Player,” a 15” jazz musician of demonstrable grace and energy. Building on that, Alexander has captured the essence of 18 varied ensemble players—drummer, trumpet, sax, harmonica, clarinet, keyboard, guitar, singer, bass, and others like marimba, tuba, dancers, flute, banjo, bongo drums, fiddle, trombone and conductor. Their realistic high energy and expressive poses are fed by the music that inspired them; they look so alive as to be in swaying movement. Christopher Bell Gallery celebrates the first time the entire ensemble has been visible to the public

You will quickly find your favorite musician in this group, and then others will inspire you as you notice the rhythm and flow of these remarkable sculptures. Alexander quips, “Life is like jazz. When you play from your heart, you sometimes play as background and sometimes in the spotlight…but it’s the music that counts.”

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