Tesserae is a San Francisco-based studio specializing in large-scale public and private murals.
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Rita Soyfertis is the principal artist and founder.
Rita immigrated to California after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 90’s. Before immigrating, she worked predominantly in the theater world as a set designer. She attended a preeminent art and design university in Kiev, Ukraine and has a background in traditional visual media.
In the early 2000s, she fell in love with the medium of mosaics and has been working with tiles ever since. She has participated in many public art competitions and has successfully installed large projects throughout the Bay Area.