LIVE FROM MEMPHIS

Christina Katrakis is an artist living and working in the Memphis area.  This winter, Christina will be teaching two hands-on workshop series at the Memphis Botanic Gardens.  Art through the Ages (Jan. 10 - Feb. 15) and Art in Diverse Media & Subject (Feb 21 - Mar 29).  Please see below for detailed information on these two classes.

Christina studied at the renowned National Academy of Art of Ukraine, as well as various art schools in Europe and U.S. (She holds a terminal MFA degree from Memphis University, where she taught drawing, figure structure, watercolor and oil painting).

Trained in the rigorous classical tradition, Christina’s artistic gaze blends the old with the new, the immediate and recognizable with the unusual and the ironic. Her art reflects her extraordinary personal and intellectual background and experience.  Hence one may encounter a touch of Proustian memory of her formative years (the gritty post-Soviet reality, the ideological divides, and the family moments), the mythic transcendental Mediterranean luminosity of Greece, Italy and the Caucasus, and post-modern if not outright surreal discourse of contemporary American culture.