Erika Komonyi


Erika Komonyi is a Ukrainian-American painter, ceramist, and designer of Hungarian descent; member of the Ukrainian Artists' Society "Dolia" and the American Art Coalition.
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Biography

Born on 10 November 1965 in the, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast. In 1985, she graduated from the Uzhhorod Art School; the ceramics department of the Uzhhorod College of Applied Arts; and in 1991, the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, where she studied under Oleksandr Voloshenko, Bohdan Korzh, and. She honed her skills in creating black-glazed smoked ceramics under István Fozekos and Ukrainian masters from the village of Havarechchyna in the Lviv Oblast.
In 1991, she and her husband Yuri Skorupsky emigrated to the United States, settling in Chicago. From 1992, she worked as an artist and designer for Yolanda Lorente's company in Chicago for 25 years.

Creativity

She works in the fields of painting, graphic art, and artistic ceramics. She designs fabrics and clothing. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions.
Among his works:
  • ceramic vases ;
  • graphics: "City", "Lovers", "Spirit of the Evening City", "City", "Guardian Angel", "Love".
Some of the artist's works are exhibited at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago, the in Uzhhorod, and in private collections.

Individual publications

Г. Стельмащук. Еріка Комоні. Творчий портрет мисткині. — Львів : Колір Про, 2023. — 250 pp.
  • Erika Komonyi // Art Exhibition: Orizzonti: Ukraine Contemporary Art / Khrystyna Berehovska. — Lviv : Apriori, 2023. — С. 100—101.