Tim Tate Explained

Tim Tate (born 1960)[1] is an American artist and the co-founder[2] of the Washington Glass School in the Greater Washington, DC capital area. The school was founded in 2001 and is now the second largest warm glass school in the United States.[3] Tate was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1989[4] and was told that he had a year left to live. As a result, Tate decided to begin working with glass in order to leave a legacy behind.[5] Over a decade ago, Tate began incorporating video and embedded electronics into his glass sculptures, thus becoming one of the first artists to migrate and integrate the relatively new form of video art into sculptural works.[6] [7] In 2019 he was selected to represent the United States at the sixth edition of the GLASSTRESS exhibition at the Venice Biennale.[8] [9]

Tate was born and currently lives in Washington, D.C.[1]

Press

In her 2003 review of Tate's first solo gallery exhibition at the Fraser Gallery in Washington, DC,[10] The Washington Times art critic Joanna Shaw-Eagle noted that visitors to the show "may not know exactly what draws them to Mr. Tate's art, but they'll find it mesmerizing. The more they examine it, the more they'll get back."[11] In reviewing that same show, The Washington Posts art critic Michael O'Sullivan observed that Tate's symbolic vocabulary, at least to O'Sullivan, suggested the iconography of martyrdom.[12] In the 2007 Artomatic show, Tate’s artwork The Rapture disappeared under dramatic circumstances, and later a ransom demand (for Monopoly money) was sent to The Washington Post. The demands were met and parts of the artwork were returned by the thief, named "The Collector", along with his manifesto about society failing to value its art.[13]

Four years later, the Philadelphia Free Press was one of the first to try to categorize his work as "steampunk", and they also affirmed that Tate was a sculptor, a videographer, and a glass artist.[14] In discussing his ground-breaking incorporation of video to traditional glass art, The Washington City Paper documented in 2008 that Tate hoped that his incorporation of new media, running on computer-processing power, would yield a new approach to glass blowing. Also in 2008 The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that two of Tate's pieces sold for $41,000 at auction.[15]

In 2009, the National Public Radio program All Things Considered put similar observations about his work in the context that the work occupied a "strange place between Old World art and New World technology."

In 2011, together with curator, art critic, and author William Warmus, Tate started a Facebook page[16] devoted to "glass secessionism."[17] "In a controversial move, the secessionists posited that a new generation was moving beyond the technical and aesthetic ideals of the 20th-century postwar studio glass movement." The backlash from the glass establishment was immediate; the new Facebook conversation was called uninformed and even mean-spirited. By 2014 Tate and Warmus had established themselves as the leaders of this new movement in contemporary glass.[18]

By 2013, American University, even while describing his growing artistic presence as "Washington, DC’s best known contemporary glass artist",[19] also noted that the video component of his work was being recognized independently of the glass genre.

In 2018, The Washington Post observed that his work "refers to LGBTQ dignity."[20]

In 2019, The Fort Wayne Museum of Art, in discussing one of Tate's works, postulated that "As a result of Tate's modern interpretation, Degas representation of an "Opera Rat" is incorporated into the modern feminist narrative."[21]

In 2021, Tate was part of the U.S. premiere of 'Glasstress', an international exhibition assembled by the Boca Raton Museum of Art. The exhibition presented 34 new works that "explore some of today’s pressing subjects, including human rights, climate change, racial justice, gender issues and politics", and included artists such as Ai Weiwei, Ugo Rondinone, Vik Muniz, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Thomas Schütte, and others.[22] Also in 2021, Tate's work in The Phillips Collection exhibition Inside Outside, Upside Down was described by The Washington City Paper as an "homage to the plague during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian, embodied through a gray 'mirror' filled with pained faces, suggesting Auguste Rodin’s 'The Gates of Hell' sculpture.[23] Writing about the same work, The Washington Post art critic noted that:

"One of the most striking artworks in the Phillips Collection’s “Inside Outside, Upside Down” — a juried group exhibition of works by area artists — is a sort of mirror into history. Tim Tate’s “Justinian’s Oculus,” made of glasslike plastic, sets an ornate frame around a tightly packed cluster of 3-D faces and skulls, evoking the victims of a plague that wracked the Byzantine Empire. That was in the 6th century, but this sculpture — and the show that contains it — wouldn’t exist without the events of 2020."[24]

Awards

Collections

Tate's artwork is in the permanent collections of a number of museums, including the Smithsonian's American Art Museum in Washington, DC, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC,[37] the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC,[38] [39] the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA,[40] The American University Katzen Art Museum in Washington, DC,[41] the Milwaukee Art Museum,[42] Vanderbilt University,[43] University of Richmond Art Museum,[44] and the University of Virginia Art Museum. His work is also in the permanent collection of Washington, DC.[45]

Major public art commissions

References

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  2. Web site: Glass Half Full. Barbagallo. Paul. 2010-11-17. Washingtonian Magazine. en-US. 2019-01-15.
  3. Web site: Policies in Practice - Tim Tate - Office of Disability Employment Policy - United States Department of Labor. www.dol.gov. 2019-01-15.
  4. News: The Spaces Between. Warmus. William. January 2018. American Craft Magazine.
  5. News: Glass Half Full - He was told he he(sic) didn't have long to live. So he started living his dream.. Barbagallo. Paul. November 17, 2010. Washingtonian Magazine.
  6. Web site: All Things Considered: A Tiny Digital Arts Revolution, Encased In Glass. August 3, 2009. NPR. en.
  7. News: Kiss My Glass. Hobson. Chris. March 8, 2008. The Washington City Paper. 2009-01-15.
  8. Web site: Artist Tim Tate to Represent USA in Venice Exhibition. 2019-04-19. East City Art. 2019-05-30.
  9. Web site: Tim Tate invited to Glasstress. Momentum Gallery. en. 2019-05-30.
  10. Web site: Fraser Gallery - Our 2003 Washington, DC shows. www.thefrasergallery.com. 2019-01-15.
  11. News: 'Memories' in a jar. Shaw-Eagle. Joanna. June 24, 2003. The Washington Times.
  12. News: Tate Gets To the Heart Of the Matter. O'Sullivan. Michael. July 11, 2003. The Washington Post.
  13. News: Artsy High Jinks. Argetsinger. Amy. May 17, 2007. The Washington Post.
  14. News: he first First Friday of the new season is in the know. Strauss. R.B.. 2008. The Philadelphia Free Press.
  15. Web site: Social Circuit. Stewart. Caroline. 2008-05-21. Philadelphia Inquirer. en-US. 2019-05-03.
  16. Web site: Glass Secessionism Archive. www.facebook.com. en. 2019-01-15.
  17. News: The World Beyond Glass. Moses. Monica. March 16, 2014. American Craft Magazine.
  18. Web site: Is St. Petersburg the future of glass? The Glass Art Society thinks so.. 2019-03-25. Tampa Bay Times. en-US. 2019-04-11.
  19. Web site: Tim Tate: Sleepwalker American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC. American University. en. 2019-01-15.
  20. News: In the galleries: 'Hard and Soft' juxtaposes the delicate and the durable. Jenkins. Mark. 2018-11-16. The Washington Post. 2019-05-29.
  21. Web site: Artist on Artist: Tate on Degas. Kilmer. Elizabeth. 2019-07-19. Fort Wayne Museum of Art. en-US. 2019-07-21.
  22. Web site: U.S. Premiere of 'Glasstress' Showcases The Work of Leading International Artists in Collaboration With Venetian Glass Masters. 2021-01-27. ArtfixDaily. en.
  23. Web site: Jacobson. Louis. 2021-08-09. City Lights: Inside Outside, Upside Down: 64 Artists Opine on 2020 - WCP. 2022-01-11. Washington City Paper. en-US.
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  25. News: Mayor Williams Honors Artists. Padgett. Jonathan. December 25, 2003. The Washington Post.
  26. Web site: NICHE Award Winners Announced. JCK. 19 February 2008 . en-US. 2019-01-15.
  27. Web site: AIDSmemorial.info. www.aidsmemorial.info. 2019-01-15.
  28. Web site: Virginia A. Groot Foundation - Artists - Tim Tate. www.virginiaagrootfoundation.org. 2019-01-15.
  29. Web site: JRA Distinguished Artist Lecture with Tim Tate. October 7, 2018. American University Katzen Art Museum. en. 2019-01-15.
  30. Web site: University of Sunderland-United Kingdom-Sunderland Fulbright Scholar Program. www.cies.org. 2019-01-15.
  31. Web site: The London Contemporary Art Prize 2017 Results. 2017. London Contemporary Art Prize. en-US. 2019-01-15.
  32. Web site: FY14 Grant Awardees - Artist Fellowship Program dcarts. dcarts.dc.gov. 2019-01-15.
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  34. Web site: FY16 Grant Awardees - Artist Fellowship Program dcarts. dcarts.dc.gov. 2019-01-15.
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  36. Web site: FY19 Grantees - Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP) dcarts. dcarts.dc.gov. 2019-01-15.
  37. Web site: Tim Tate and Marc Petrovic AACG. Contemporary Glass. 2019-01-30.
  38. Web site: Sacred Heart of Healing. Smithsonian American Art Museum. en-US. 2019-01-30.
  39. Web site: Tim Tate. Smithsonian American Art Museum. en-US. 2019-01-30.
  40. Web site: Dispatches: Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts. arttextstyle. 2010-08-15. en-US. 2019-01-30.
  41. Web site: Tim Tate: Sleepwalker American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC. American University. en. 2019-01-30.
  42. Web site: Milwaukee Art Museum. June 12, 2011. Milwaukee Art Museum. 2019-01-30.
  43. Web site: The 21st Century Reliquary - Pittsburgh Glass Center. www.pittsburghglasscenter.org. 2019-01-30.
  44. Web site: Tim Tate — SPiN GalleriesSPiN Galleries. SPiN Galleries. en-US. 2019-01-30.
  45. Web site: Results Search Objects eMuseum dcarts. dcarts.emuseum.com. 2019-01-19.
  46. Web site: John Adams Building Monumental Door Replacement. Architect of the Capitol. en. 2019-01-15.
  47. News: A Glass Master Displays the Art of Conservation. Hartman. Eviana. December 16, 2007. The Washington Post.

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