Mersky, Deborah

Deborah Mersky grew up in Austin, Texas, lived in Seattle for many years, and has recently relocated to Johnson City. She earned an MFA at the University of Washington and has been exhibiting her work since 1980. As a public artist, she creates elaborate, large-scale installations executed in such materials as glass and metal and integrated into buildings. In Austin she designed the metal fencing along the sidewalk on the north end of the 1st Street Bridge over Lady Bird Lake. Both her public and studio works are informed by the natural world, with natural elements removed from their original contexts and rearranged to create patterns. She frequently combines printmaking and collage, and has recently been creating prints on vinyl LPs.