Yanka Dzombak is a Canadian artist working in painting, installation, and new media art. Born in Crimea, Dzombak received her BA degree from the National Academy of Art and Architecture, followed by a MDes from the Institute of Advertisement in Kyiv, Ukraine. Dzombak’s artistic practice is characterized by blending elements from folk traditions, mythologies and symbolism with contemporary visual culture.
Dzombak’s artistic explorations revolve around the impact of 3D technology on the creation of art. Her practice sits at the intersection of machine learning and subconscious surfing, employing psychic automatism to access hidden desires, fears, and truths. By surrendering to the subconscious and utilizing software intelligence to interpret output data, she captures the dialogue between the subconscious and the machine. This approach allows her to create intricate paintings that merge abstraction and figuration, often depicting human figures, floral motifs, and monstrous beings set against haunting landscapes. In her installations she repurposes discarded materials and natural found objects, giving them new meaning through transformative processes.
She explores human behavior and the driving forces behind it, along with indistinct connection between individual’s conscious and unconscious elements. Yanka perceives a cyclical process of creation, growth, culmination, and eventual decay and death as an ongoing phenomenon within her artistic exploration. This thematic focus reflects her interest in the complexities of existence and the human experience.
Resides and works in Houston, Texas.
