Yanka Dzombak is an American-based Canadian multidisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, and new media art. Her work explores themes of identity, memory, displacement, and cultural mutation. Dzombak’s artistic practice is characterized by a blend of 3D art aesthetics with gestural mark-making.
Born in Crimea, Dzombak received her BA from the National Academy of Art and Architecture, followed by a MDes from the Institute of Advertisement in Kiev, Ukraine. She draws inspiration from art history, childhood fantasies, elements of folk art, and 3D art culture. In her works, she blurs the relationship between the real and the subconscious, utilizing self-invented embroidery patterns over her artworks as a means of claiming territories and spaces, as well as an expression of gestural mark-making.
With recuring themes of memories and fantasies from her childhood, she explores her complex identity and history as a non-linear concept, which is flued, shifting over time and constantly influenced by the present.
Resides and works in Houston, Texas.
