Volha (Lola) Panco (b. Minsk, Belarus) studied Academic Drawing and Painting at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts before moving to the United States in 2012. She received her MFA from Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona in 2024. Panco currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Panco treats painting as a continuous process of becoming, using each brush stroke as a fleeting moment in time that reaches over into another, forming interconnected, ever-changing layers of existence. She mobilizes the formal tension of painting as outwardly static but inwardly charged, pushing beyond the limit of coherent logic and conveying the deep complexity of life’s impalpable connections and hidden phenomena.
Panco’s work won numerous awards, including the Dedalus MFA Fellowship, Martin Wong Foundation Scholarship, and Gayle J Novak and Robert D. Cocke Award in Painting. It has been featured in the Washington Post, Fine Art Connoisseur, and Metropolitan Magazine. Her drawings and paintings have been privately collected throughout the US and are held in the permanent collection of Salisbury University and the Galbut Foundation.
Oil on Canvas
60 x 96 x 1.5 in.
Oil on Canvas
48 x 48 x 1.5 in.
Oil on Canvas
60 x 96 x 1.5 in.