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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 opted to show their work in new venues. They painted populist themes in an accessible style: peasants, religious celebrations, and Russian landscapes.

Nina Mikhailenko upholds this tradition of creating art that is both serious and accessible. Not surprisingly, her most successful works are commissions, which allow her to match a theme with its environment. Her murals of life on Pampas, bullfights, chefs, cigar smokers, jazz musicians, and well-fed people having fun adorn the walls of upscale steakhouses, for example, and carry no hidden moral agenda.

Her human figures, particularly, embody a depth of character and memory, in close and crowded settings energized by vigorous color, texture and motion. Nina herself is a small, delicate woman, yet some of her canvasses are enormous. They seem to reflect a heroic impulse: energetic, bright, always stretched to the limit of a realistic style.

Nina masters great quantities of energy, creating art that is densely composed, painstakingly wrought, bold and detailed.

In sum, she is an exceptional artist whose work is vibrant yet comforting, monumental yet in perfect scale with its surroundings.

St. Petersburg at night

2006
oil on canvas
40 1/2x30 1/2

Fairytale Bruge

2005
oil on canvas
35 1/2x30 1/2

Arirang

2006
oil on canvas
91 1/2x152 1/2

Elegance

1997
oil on canvas
91 1/2x152 1/2

Jaz Bum

2000
oil on canvas
61x61

Home Stretch

2004
oil oon canvas
76x61

Bolshoy Drama Theatre, St. Pet

2006
oil on canvas
51x61

John

2007
oil on canvas
183x92