About

STATEMENT

 

Social and political upheavals impact our relationship with the environment, turning it from leisure and resource to one of shelter and survival. Through elements of cityscapes, vegetation, and light, my work highlights the emergence, endurance, and demise of beings, reflecting on the delicate balance of ecosystems, the consequences of power structures, and the natural cycles of life and death. I mobilize the formal tension of painting as outwardly static but inwardly charged, pushing beyond the limitations of coherent logic and conveying the deep complexity of life's impalpable connections and hidden phenomena.

The constant state of tension manifests vividly in bursting-with-color, large-scale paintings. Painting is a continuous process of becoming, where each brush stroke, as a fleeting moment in time, reaches over into another, forming interconnected, ever-changing layers of existence. Through layers of paint, built architecture and architecture of time meet on the surface of the canvas, creating opportunities for new forms of life to come into existence. 

 

 

BIO

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Volha (Lola) Panco (b. 1989, Minsk, Belarus) is a visual artist and educator based in Boone, North Carolina. Informed by post-humanist theory, her work subverts conventional norms of figuration by imbuing nonhuman forms with agency and presence. Panco earned an MFA in Studio Art from Arizona State University, a BFA from Salisbury University, and a BA from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. She was a 2024-2025 Dedalus Foundation Fellow. Her work has been widely exhibited nationally, including at Marc Straus Gallery (NY), De Sarthe Gallery (AZ), and the Asheville Art Museum (NC), and is held in the permanent collections of Salisbury University and the Galbut Foundation. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Appalachian State University (UNC system).

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