Artist

Todd Hoyer

born Beaver Dam, WI 1952
Media - portrait_image_113345.jpg - 90228
Courtesy Todd Hoyer.
Born
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States
Active in
  • Bisbee, Arizona, United States
Biography

Todd Hoyer was introduced to wood in his junior high school shop class. He studied manufacturing engineering at Arizona State University and became skilled in casting, welding, and milling. He also joined his mother in learning how to weave and enjoyed the vast differences between working with fabric and metal. Hoyer uses salvaged wood and often burns the surface of his sculptures to distort their natural texture and emphasize the turned form.

Works by this artist (4 items)

Todd Hoyer, Sphere, 1988, Arizona ash, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur and Charles Bresler, 1998.11.1
Sphere
Date1988
Arizona ash
Not on view
Todd Hoyer, Suspended Sphere, 1994, sycamore, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur and Charles Bresler in honor of Kenneth R. Trapp, curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery (1995--2003), 2003.60.22
Suspended Sphere
Date1994
sycamore
Not on view
Todd Hoyer, "Ringed Series", 1993, sycamore, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur and Charles Bresler in honor of Kenneth R. Trapp, curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery (1995--2003), 2003.60.23
Ringed Series”
Date1993
sycamore
Not on view
Todd Hoyer, "Ringed Series", 1993, mulberry, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur and Charles Bresler, 1998.11.2
Ringed Series”
Date1993
mulberry
Not on view