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TROIKA


Troika is a group of three women: Margaret Chodos - Irvine, Deborah Mersky and Julie Paschkis.
We are three artists with strong individual careers. We are also friends who have collaborated on art projects and art products since 1992. Our experiences, our individual senses of humor and design overlap and complement each other. We find working together invigorating and surprising.
For this show we came up with the theme Head, Body, Legs. Head, Body, Legs is a drawing game that we enjoy playing together. Our collaborative work for this show is related to that game. We made six articulated puppets where we each made a piece and then sent it to the others. We also designed a card game of Head, Body, Legs which we had printed.
We played with the theme in a different way for the main works of the show, which were created individually. We split it up so that Julie would do HEADS, Margaret would do BODIES and Deborah would do LEGS. We each interpreted our assignments freely - exploring our own interests and using different materials and techniques.
 

Julie Paschkis

 

Jugheads is a series of women/jugs. I am lucky to come from a line of creative women. My
mother is a potter and I grew up with a love of dishes and decoration This series is a
tribute to my mother, grandmother, aunts and other women in my life.

Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Seattle artist Margaret Chodos-Irvine worked for many years as a printmaker and professional illustrator. Designing and making clothing was her creative refuge.
Now Margaret uses the skills she learned while working with sewing and knitting patterns to construct conceptual art based on familiar apparel forms. Garments are essential parts of our physical, and psychological, wardrobe. Margaret’s work explores what happens when you alter those forms, not to change the style or fit, but to change what they say to us about ourselves.

Deborah Mersky

"The work I’m contributing as part of our TROIKA Show at I.E. is from an ongoing series, Notes On Walking. The pieces are in various materials, and represent  aspects of my experience of wandering.  The examples are about the layers of losing myself in the rhythm of footsteps and the unfurling of imagination that follows. The walks are rich in metaphor.   Several pieces focus on a loose sort of memory mapping where images of ink, watercolor, and thread combine to remind me of paths and choices.  Some objects in this grouping are combinations of the found and made; shoe soles, rocks, and objects become toys and relics.."

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