John Tronsor: July 2024
John Tronsor is an interdisciplinary artist, and educator living and working in Pittsburgh. His practice has spanned a variety of modes and media within the realms of sculpture, installation, and video; however his more recent work has taken a turn towards photography and optics. He is currently experimenting with capturing fluid flow through Schlieren imaging.
John's art has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including at spaces such as the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Museum of Art in Davis, California, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, Korea, and Pittsburgh's Tomayko Foundation, and Space Gallery.
He received his MFA from the University of California, Davis (2013), a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in Studio Arts from Brandeis University (2009) and a BA in Studio Arts from the University of Pittsburgh (2008).
My art practice is a way of thinking through some thing. It is a mode of making sense of an
experience, a concept, an intuition, an affect. It is a form of processing these encounters. The particular mode of expression is not given in advance, it develops alongside this process. My work then finds its solution and realization through a singular medium or an aggregate of media.
While my practice is fundamentally concerned with the limits of knowledge and understanding it has recently taken a bent toward the ways in which seeing and knowing are co-determined and co-produced. It is following a line concerning recognition and the formal qualities that give rise to it as such: Can that recognition be held in abeyance? For how long? What is it that really occurs in that space just prior to identification or actualization?
Upcoming Exhibitions and Events
You can find John’s work currently on view at the Independent and Image Art Space in Chongqing China. He will be participating in two upcoming auctions in Pittsburgh: the Tomayko Foundation in July, and the Silver Eye Center for Photography in August. His future plans include creating new photographic work from a fissure off the coast of Iceland in preparation for a 2025 solo show at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH.
John’s piece, koloa bay (24), is currently available in the Summer Variety: Online Store.
