Artists

Tor Archer

My initial exposure to sculpture was through my mother who was a wood carver and welder. I studied sculpture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and then at the School for the Arts at Boston University.

I work predominately with metals, preferably salvaged ones that show the marks of time and weathering. I most always have a figurative element in the work and am influenced by an eclectic mix of mythologies, religious iconography, archaic written languages, illuminated manuscripts, and the work of "primitive" cultures. Currently, I derive a lot of my inspiration from my children's drawings and work in sculpey.

This summer I had a solo show at the Julie Nesta Gallery in Park City, Utah and currently have work at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Yucatan in Merida, Mexico. Locally, my work can be seen at the Charles Campbell Gallery.

Tor Archer was involved in Hearts in San Francisco in 2004, designing Entangled Heart.