About
Tatyana Apraksina
Tatyana Apraksina is known as
an artist and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper (journal) Apraksin Blues, which since 2001 has
been published in the U.S. (California).
In recent years she has also strikingly emerged in literature: prose (Lessons
for 'Orly etc.) and poetry (California
Psalms etc.).
T. Apraksina's creative trajectory began in the unofficial
culture of Leningrad, U.S.S.R., in the 1970s.
In the 1980s she received recognition as the author of cycles of
paintings and graphic works dedicated to the theme of her native city, St.
Petersburg. Later, her creative attention
came to focus for many years on the area of classical music and its performance.
Since the '80s through the
'00s numerous personal exhibits of T. Apraksina's artistic work have taken
place in Leningrad-Petersburg, Moscow, Vitebsk, in Austria, Germany and the
U.S.
In the '00s, Apraksina has
created new cycles of visual art related to the theme of the sources of
culture.
Apraksina has been
editor-in-chief of Apraksin Blues
since 1995.