Market Street Gallery announces an exhibition of California-based artists
Nina Binnington, Tatiana Lyskova, and Inna Razumova. For each of these
artists mythology is a focus and a point of departure. Coming from a similar
cultural context (born and raised in Russia but in different cities - St. Petersburg, Kazan, Moscow), all three female artists now reside and work in the Bay Area.
Their art ranges in approach from traditional to contemporary, representational
to non-representational. It blends ancient, modern, cosmopolitan and personal mythologies in a variety of media: drawing, watercolor, printmaking as well
as gilding on glass, textiles and video.

Inna Razumova: "My pieces can be envisioned as commentary on the fluctuating boundary between reality and fable". Educated in Russia and the United States,
Inna graduated from UCLA in 1996 with a BFA in painting and received her MFA
in 2003 from CADRE Laboratory for Digital Media Art, SJSU. She is a full-time
faculty in the Art Department at the City College of San Francisco.

Nina Binnington: "Mythology and myths are inseparable from our self-perception" - studied internationally in Russia and United Kingdom where she served a three year apprenticeship in gilding and restoration. The technique she uses for gilding on glass
is ancient and unique - it goes back to 3d century B.C.

Tatiana Lyskova: "I seek to capture a vision that sees nature in an alternative way, one full of details that pass unnoticed by many people." Educated in Russia, Tatiana received her MFA from Moscow Printing University. A widely acclaimed illustrator and printmaker in Russia, she continues to pursue her passion of printmaking.

The exhibition will include "Affectu Quem Secreto", an 8-minute digital video commissioned by the Krasnoyarsk Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia). The video is dedicated to the early 19th century California romance between the Russian explorer, Count Nikolai Ryazanov of Fort Ross, and Concepcion Arguello, daughter of the commandant of the Spanish Presidio of San Francisco. Ryazanov went to Russia to seek permission of the tsar Alexander I to marry Concepcion but died during his journey across Siberia. He is buried in Krasnoyarsk, where a monument to him still stands. Concepcion waited for his return for thirty years at the Dominican sisterhood in Benicia until her death in 1857.

Affectu Quem Secreto is a collaboration between Inna Razumova (concept and video), Polina Barskova (poetry), Paul Belasky (original music and performance), and Mitya Makarov (sound design).

This exhibition is hosted by the Market Street Gallery and sponsored by MesArt.com, an on-line art hosting/sales business.

MARKET STREET GALLERY
1554 Market Street - Near Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
www.marketstreetgallery.com