Plainsboro artist Lidia Nesterova has several paintings featured at the fourth annual art and craft fair of the French-Speaking Association of Princeton on Sunday, May 6, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at Princeton’s Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street. The one-day event offers a wide variety of art objects for sale, including paintings, pastels, photographs, ceramics, jewelry, felting, knits, embroidery, giclee prints, and note cards. A reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Admission is free.##M:[more]##
Nesterova was born in Moscow, Russia. Her father was a physicist and her mother taught biology in high school. Her brother lives with his wife and five-year old son in St. Petersburg.
She began studying art as a child and attended Moscow Art School for gifted children in Russia, and Surikov Art Institute in Moscow for undergraduate studies. She received her master’s in fine arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1995.
She and her husband, Dmitry Nesterov, came to the United States in 1991 as graduate students at Rutgers University, where she studied art and he studied physics. Also with them was their son, Nikita Nesterov, then three-years-old. The family lived in Piscataway and then in Highland Park.
They moved to Walker Gordon Farms in Plainsboro in 2000. Their daughter, Anastasia Nesterova, was born that year. She is now a first grade student at Princeton French School. Nikita, now 18, graduated from High School South in June and is a mathematics student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Dmitry commutes to New York City where he works at an investment bank. Prior to 2000 Nesterova was a painting artist in Jeff Koons’ studio in New York.
She was introduced to the French group by other parents who are artists at her daughter’s school and this is her second time exhibiting with the group. The exhibitors also include Catherine Arnoux, Daniela Bittman, Virginie Chapel, Regine Corngold, Horton Davies, Noelle Eiferman, Anna Finzi, Sona Khatcherian, Agnes Seugnet, and Jannick Wildberg. “I enjoy connecting with other artists in our area,” says Nesterova. — Lynn Miller
Art and Craft Fair, Association Francophone de Princeton, Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street, Princeton, 609-356-9369. Reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, May 6, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m
