Welcome

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 Myrna Pronchuk is an international artist and musician who creates in painting, sculpture and sonic based media. 

Myrna has worked and awarded residencies in Greece, Ireland, Germany, Spain as well as throughout the United States; Further, Myrna is the recipient of the 2023 John Kurtich Scholarship Recipient at the Skolopeos Foundation for the Arts Residency, Skolopeos, Greece.

Pronchuk exhibitions have included 3-D found-object paintings, performance  and sonic sculptures in Munich Germany; a sonic sculpture performance at the University of North Carolina - Black Mountain College; paintings and performative sculptures at the Wilma Daniels Gallery in Wilmington, North Carolina, paintings in a solo show at the Gallery in the Grove, Ontario Canada; and Projection art with ArtBox Projects in Zurich, Switzerland.

Pronchuk received her Masters Degree in Drawing and Painting at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA and Bachelor of Fine Arts at Watkins College of Art, Design and Film in Nashville, TN.

Pronchuk approaches  life and art (making) foremost as being an engagement of both , an optical and aural experience.  Recording  with mediums of 2d, 3d, and 4d she utilizes both sonic and visual markers to create work. 

The movement between varied mediums of painting and sculpture create a gesamtkunstwerk. Shifting from drawings to paintings and to mix media all lend to continued ideas of the abstraction of the human experience.  In obscuring confines of form and expression, the sonic and visual and the experience and imitation, she hopes the viewer will question varied positions of dominance in how we handle our world and how we treat each other  through a line quadrant with hue or tone made from a string from a machine.

Myrna has always been interested in investigating hegemony - with art making and mediums of drawing, painting, and further influenced by sonic and found object sculpture. Throughout the past years since the pandemic, the confrontation of struggles of health and well-being has caused an imbalance with uncertainty and questioning of power on many fronts: from political, social and environmental. 

Environment plays an important role of informing. A place can influence what is taken or left behind: It can bind or instigate entropy - to the point of developing a sustaining impression.  

In utilizing materials- in some of the work, more particularly in found objects (from the ordinary, and sometimes mundane parts of human activity), excavated from a specific area or place lead the narration of the work that is produced.  These parts are ones that have sometimes been forgotten, mistreated or cast away to be gathered and re-created within sculpture construction to become then a (new) way of translating, deciphering, and understanding human responses - with reflection of responsibility to life and to that particular area environment.

When artifacts in contemporary society are combined in a new way to illustrate purpose or importance, they can produce an  interactive landscape for the artist and further, the viewer to consider. This exploration of hegemony of humans (over each other and of our environment) hopefully can influence the power of individual responsibility.