Nina Mikhailenko - Artist

My oil and watercolor paintings, pastel, ink, charcoal, pencil drawings. As a Russian-born painter, I grew up among the intelligentsia and cultural elite of St.

Petersburg, where I studied piano, ballet and fine art. I graduated from the renowned Mukhina Art Institute and came to the United States in 1974. Stylistically, her work has roots in a late-19th century Russian art movement called “Peredvishniki.” Literally, the Peredvishniki were itinerants or wanderers, who rebelled against the formal restrictions of the tsarist Imperial Academy of Arts and opt  ...