Dave Archer (painter)
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Dave Archer is a reverse glass painter and sculptor.
Recently he has begun sculpting using found-object armatures which he then covers with an activated resin substance, using various tools to make impressions which he refers to as “markings”, then adding pigments of various colors to highlight the impressions.
, decorating the Enterprise set on Star Trek: The Next Generation
television show, received screen credit in the movie, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
, was included in Star Trek: Generations
.
He has demonstrated the reverse-glass painting technique on over two hundred television shows, including, "Eye To Eye With Connie Chung
," "Beyond 2000," and Discovery Channel's, "The Next Step" and "World's of Wonder".
Archer’s paintings have been on numerous book jackets including: ‘’Fantasy’’ and ‘’Earth’’ by Isaac Asimov
; ‘’N-Space’’ and ‘’Playgrounds of the Mind‘’by Larry Niven
; ‘’Music Physician’’ by Don Campbell; ‘’The Oxygen Barons’’ by Gregory Feeley; ‘’The Starry Rift’’ and the ‘’Crown of Stars’’ by James Tiptree, Jr.; ‘’Alastor’’ and ‘’Planet of Adventure’’ by Jack Vance
as well as the Vance Anthology of ‘’City of the Chasch / Servants of the Wankh / The Dirdir / The Pnume’’
In the print media, Archer’s work was featured in Omni (magazine)
, and National Geographic Magazine
. He has also appeared in Ripley’s Believe It or Not! comic in the Sunday newspaper .
on Madison Avenue in New York City, and the Hayden Planetarium
in Central Park
in New York.
entitled ‘’The Trickster’s Bible’’.
Work
Archer’s primary medium is reverse glass painting which he pioneered with artist Ron Russell. The technique consists of applying paint or pigment to the underside of a glass plate then applying a million volts of electricity generated from a Tesla Coil to disperse the paint into randomly generated patterns.Recently he has begun sculpting using found-object armatures which he then covers with an activated resin substance, using various tools to make impressions which he refers to as “markings”, then adding pigments of various colors to highlight the impressions.
Fame
Dave Archer’s paintings have been featured on Star TrekStar Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
, decorating the Enterprise set on Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...
television show, received screen credit in the movie, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is the sixth feature film in the Star Trek science fiction franchise and is the last of the Star Trek films to include the entire main cast of the 1960s Star Trek television series. Released in 1991 by Paramount Pictures, it was directed by Nicholas Meyer and...
, was included in Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek Generations is a 1994 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. Generations is the seventh feature film based on the Star Trek television series and the first film in the series to star the cast of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.Parts of the film...
.
He has demonstrated the reverse-glass painting technique on over two hundred television shows, including, "Eye To Eye With Connie Chung
Connie Chung
Connie Chung, full name: Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich is an American journalist who has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S...
," "Beyond 2000," and Discovery Channel's, "The Next Step" and "World's of Wonder".
Archer’s paintings have been on numerous book jackets including: ‘’Fantasy’’ and ‘’Earth’’ by Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...
; ‘’N-Space’’ and ‘’Playgrounds of the Mind‘’by Larry Niven
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...
; ‘’Music Physician’’ by Don Campbell; ‘’The Oxygen Barons’’ by Gregory Feeley; ‘’The Starry Rift’’ and the ‘’Crown of Stars’’ by James Tiptree, Jr.; ‘’Alastor’’ and ‘’Planet of Adventure’’ by Jack Vance
Jack Vance
John Holbrook Vance is an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen...
as well as the Vance Anthology of ‘’City of the Chasch / Servants of the Wankh / The Dirdir / The Pnume’’
In the print media, Archer’s work was featured in Omni (magazine)
Omni (magazine)
OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction...
, and National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded...
. He has also appeared in Ripley’s Believe It or Not! comic in the Sunday newspaper .
Shows
Archer’s work has been shown in the world headquarters of AT&TAT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
on Madison Avenue in New York City, and the Hayden Planetarium
Hayden Planetarium
The Hayden Planetarium is a public planetarium, part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, currently directed by astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson....
in Central Park
Central Park
Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...
in New York.
Books
Archer’s first book, Survival Art, Painting and Sculpting for Food, Clothing and Shelter’’, was published by Coyotel Press in 2009. In 2009 Coyotel Press also published his collaboration with Steve Hapy, Will Taylor, and Steven Johnson LeybaSteven Johnson Leyba
Steven Johnson Leyba is an artist, painter, fine art book maker, author, spoken word performance artist, and musician, who claims Mescalero Apache ancestry...
entitled ‘’The Trickster’s Bible’’.
Chronology
- 1941: ARCHER, DAVE, painter and sculptor, born David Archer Nelson, in San Luis Obispo, January , 1941
- 1961: Elysian Art Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1965: Unicorn Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1965: Joker's Flux Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1967: City Lights BookstoreCity Lights BookstoreCity Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco culture. It was founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence...
, San Francisco, California - 1967: Running Elk Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1973: De Poliolo Gallery, Palm Springs, California
- 1974: William Stone Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1974: Robinson's Red Door Gallery, Morro Bay, California
- 1974: Erickson's Gallery, Tiburon, California
- 1975: M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
- 1977: Glass Art Gallery, San Rafael, California
- 1978: Amber Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1979: Westheimer Art Festival, Houston, Texas
- 1979: Sausalito Art Festival, California
- 1980: Laguna Beach Art Festival, California
- 1980: The Boulevard - Las Vegas, Nevada
- 1980: Tapestry in Talent - San Jose, California
- 1981: Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, California
- 1981: Omni Magazine Art Show, Marshall Fields' Dept. Store, Chicago
- 1982: MGM Grand Hotel, Reno, Nevada
- 1982: Sheraton Hotel - Steamboat Springs, Colorado
- 1982: "I Got Reemed In Reem" Art Show - Reem, California
- 1983: Kersting Gallery, Sausalito, California
- 1983-1988,1991-1995: Swanson Art Galleries, San Francisco, California
- 1987: Celebration of Innovation, San Francisco, California
- 1988: Planetarium, Brussels, Belgium
- 1989: Jacqueline Westbrook Gallery, La Jolla, California
- 1989: Dyansen Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1989: Gallery San Francisco - San Francisco, California
- 1989: The Royal Art Gallery, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii
- 1989: The Pendragon Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland
- 1989: Roy's Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas
- 1989: The Omniversum, The Hague, Netherlands - One Man Show - Permanent Collection
- 1989: Imagine Tokyo `89, Tokyo, Japan
- 1989: Gallery Alternative, San Jose, California
- 1989: Addi Gallery of Coronado, California
- 1990: Phoenix Gallery, Topeka, Kansas
- 1990: San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, California - One Man Homecoming Show
- 1990: Just Looking Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California
- 1990: The AT&T World Headquarters, New York, New York - One Man Show - Permanent - Collection & Exhibit
- 1990: Dyansen Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1990-1991: Dorog Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
- 1990-1991: Hayden Planetarium, Central Park, New York -One Man Show- Permanent Collection
- 1990: BENEFIT Show - Stop The Buck - With entertainment by Grace SlickGrace SlickGrace Slick is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s...
and Friends – Novato, California - 1991: Von Der Ahe Galleries, Ltd., Monterey, California
- 1991: Dyansen Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1991: The Vault Gallery, Cambria, California
- 1991: Ship Store Gallery, Kauai, Hawaii
- 1991: Tower Gallery, Sacramento, California
- 1991: Angel City Gallery, Los Angeles, California
- 1991: Brandywine Fantasy Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
- 1991: BENEFIT Show - Fairfax - San Anselmo Children's Center – Novato, California
- 1991: Chi-Con - World Science Fiction Convention, Chicago, Illinois
- 1991: Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois - Permanent Collection
- 1991: Whole Life Expo, San Jose, California
- 1992: Off The Wall Gallery - Huntington Beach, California
- 1992: Off The Wall Gallery - Newport Beach, California
- 1992: The Vault Gallery – Cambria, California
- 1992: Seldom Scene Gallery – Fairfax, California - With Stanley MouseStanley MouseStanley George Miller , better known as Mouse and Stanley Mouse, is an American artist, notable for his 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster designs and Grateful Dead album cover art.-Early life:...
, Ralph McQuarrieRalph McQuarrieRalph McQuarrie is a conceptual designer and illustrator who designed Star Wars , the original Battlestar Galactica , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award....
and Mati KlarweinMati KlarweinAbdul Mati Klarwein was a painter best known for his works used on the covers of music albums.-Biography:... - 1992: Metropolitan Art Gallery – Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii
- 1992: Hudson River MuseumHudson River MuseumThe Hudson River Museum, located in Trevor Park in Yonkers, New York, is the largest museum in Westchester County. The Yonkers Museum, founded in 1919 at City Hall, became the Hudson River Museum in 1948...
– Yonkers, New York - 1993: The Infinite Line Of Piero ManzoniPiero ManzoniPiero Manzoni was an Italian artist best known for his ironic conceptual art. Influenced by the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera...
- Milan, Italy - Invitational - 1993: BENEFIT Show – Fairfax, San Anselmo Children's Center – Novato, California
- 1993: 4th Annual Mythical Realism Exhibit - Brandywine Fantasy Gallery – Chicago, Illinois
- 1993: Weinstein Gallery - San Francisco, California
- 1993: Artisan's Gallery Group Invitational - Mill Valley, California
- 1993: Vault Gallery - Cambria, California
- 1995: The Seekers Collection & Gallery - Cambria, California
- 1995: The Glass Eye Gallery - Seattle, Washington - 1995
- 1995: Southern Wind - Kinetic / Op Art Gallery - New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1996: Shibuya Pantheon - Tokyo - Japan - Premier /Star Trek: GenerationsStar Trek: GenerationsStar Trek Generations is a 1994 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. Generations is the seventh feature film based on the Star Trek television series and the first film in the series to star the cast of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.Parts of the film...
- 1996: Panasonic World Headquarters – Shinagawa, Japan
- 1996: Yountchi - Rieger Fine Art - San Francisco, California
- 1997: The Glass Eye Gallery - Seattle, Washington
- 1997: Danskin Galleries - Palm Desert, California
- 1997: Yountchi-Rieger Fine Art - San Francisco, California
- 1998: Gallery Harvest – Nagoya, Japan
- 1998: The Marceline Bonorden Gallery of Fine Art - New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1998-2001: Rieger Fine Art / Artist's Studio Show and Sale – Novato, California
- 1998-2003: Gallery Harvest - Nogoya - Japan - November - 1998
- 2002: Art Encounter - Las Vegas - Nevada - 2002
- 2003: Danville Fine Arts Gallery - "Technology Creates" – Danville, California