Archer Dougherty grew up in Albuquerque, and studied every single medium but
painting at the University of New Mexico. She took as much drawing as
she could but her figurative tendencies were not popular with the
generational abstract professors, and consequently she was never
encouraged in her development as a draftsperson. Drawing was a means to
an end, not a finished product of itself. She finished school with
degrees in three-dimensional media.
Having been out of school for a few years, Archer came to realize
that art is what you make of it, not what other people tell you it is.
Two years ago she began drawing again, having become bored with her
three dimensional work. Through drawing, Archer rediscovered her
passion. Her figures began materializing once again in sketchbooks and
paper, then finally onto wood panels. She then began experimenting with
painting on top of her drawings and learned, because irony has a great
sense of humor, that she was being drawn into the one media she never
professionally studied.
Courtesy of [Archer Dougherty]
