ARTIST STATEMENT
Blending a traditional craft with new media technology gives me the framework in which I fit my artistic narrative. Revelation —, and in some cases self-revelation,   — is the underlying theme of my electronic reliquaries.
My interactive pieces can be seen as disturbing because the face that stares back from the video screen — your own — prompts a variety of responses: amusement, discomfort, embarrassment, something akin to the feeling you have when someone catches you looking at your own reflection in a store window as you walk by.
But the important revelations here are in the viewer’s response to my hybrid art form and its conceptual nature.  I try to bare everything — the guts of my materials and my inner thoughts — in deceptively simple narrative videos set into specimen jars.  
These works are phylacteries of sorts, the transparent reliquaries in which bits of saints’ bones or hair — relics — are displayed. In many cultures and religions, relics are believed to have magical or spiritual powers, especially for healing. My relics are temporal, sounds and moving images formally enshrined, encapsulating experiences like cultural specimens. And perhaps, to the contemporary soul, they are no less reliquaries than those containing the bones of a saint.
 I see my sculptures as self contained video installations.

SOLO & FEATURE SHOWS
2009 Steps Gallery, London, England
2008 Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, Ca.
Habatat Gallery, Berkshires, Ma.
SOFA Chicago, with Maurine Littleton Gallery
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. (solo)
Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, Ca. (group show)
Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Ill. (group show)
Jane Sauer Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico (solo)
Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany
2007 FLOW Miami with Duane Reed Gallery/St. Louis,Mo.
S.O.F.A Chicago, with Maureen Littleton Gallery
Glass Weekend, Wheaton Village, New Jersey with Maureen Littleton Gallery
S.O.F.A. New York, with Jane Sauer Gallery
Smithsonian Craft Show, National Building Museum
Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, Md (solo)
2006 Smithsonian American Art Museum , Luce Foundation Center for American Art , Washington, DC (permanent collection)
Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts (VisArts), Rockville, MD “Seeing is Believing” (feature)
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA (solo)
Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD “Compelled By Content II” (feature)
Blackrock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD (feature)
2005 Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD “Caged By History” (solo)
S.O.F.A. NY / WeissPollack Gallery, New York, NY (feature)
Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD “Compelled By Content” (feature and catalogue)
2004 Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD (solo)
2003 Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD (solo)
2002 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC (feature)
2001 Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery Washington, DC (permanent collection)
1994 S.O.F.A. Chicago / Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Morgan Contemporay Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
2007 MonkDogz Urban Art, Chelsea, New York, NY. “The Day After Tomorrow”
2006 Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA “Text at Grace”
2005 Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD “Best of Artomatic”
Warehouse Gallery / WPA/C, Washington, DC “Seven”
2004 Artomatic, Washington, DC
Target Gallery, Arlington, VA “Transformed by Fire: Glass Today”
2003 The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD “30 Year Retrospective”
2002 Studio Gallery, Washington, DC “Post It Invitational”
2001 Millenium Arts Center, Washington, DC
1999 WPA/ Corcoran, Washington, DC “Invitational”
1998 WPA/ Corcoran, Washington, DC “Invitational”
1995 Lighthouse Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Gallery 2000, Washington, DC

AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2008 First Place , Niche Award for Blown Glass, 2008
Speaker – Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, Luce Center for Education, quarterly lectures entitled “The Tim Tate Talks”
2007 Special Honoree ,Best of Fine Arts DC by the Urban Artists Alliance
First Place, International Artist Competition Art-Interview Magazine/Gallery 24, Berlin
Instructor , Glass Furnace , Istanbul, Turkey
2006 Published in “50 Most Distinguished Glass Artists” IL Publishers / London
Board Member, Renwick Alliance
Mint Museum, Permanent Collection
Katzen Art Center / American University, Permanent Collection
University of Richmond Art Museum, Permanent Collection
University of Virginia Art Museum, Permanent Collection
Vanderbilt University, Permanent Collection
2004 Out Magazine People of the Year 2004, Out 100
ArtBaltimore, Best in Sculpture , Baltimore Convention Center
“Art and Healing” Society for the Arts in Healthcare Conference (SAH)
Washington, DC, Keynote Panelist
2003 Mayor’s Art Award – Outstanding Emerging Artist 2003, Washington, DC
2002 Artist Fellowship Award, District of Columbia Arts and Humanities Council
2001 Washington Glass School and Studio, Founder and Co-Director
National Capital Art Glass Guild Board Member
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Permanent Collection
2000 Triangle Artist Group, Founder
1998 Art Against AIDS, Co-Director

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chicago Tribune by Allen G. Artner (review) April 2008
Santa Fean by Hollis Walker (review) April 2008
Washington Post by Michael O’Sullivan, (review), May 2007
Washington Post by Michael O’Sullivan, (review and reproduction), March 2007
City Paper by Chris Hobson , review and reproduction, March 2007
Washington Post by Julia Beizer (article and reproduction) , March 2007
The Gazette by Claudia Rousseau , March 2007
Washington Post Express by Kriston Capps , March 2007
Genre Magazine “Heart of Glass” by Mark Liebermann (interview + reproductions) March 2007
50 Distinguished Contemporary Artists in Glass, Edited by Lisa Hoftijzer, (reproduction and essay) selected by Judith Neiswander - curator/British Museum IL Publishers Ltd, London 1st Printing 2006
Sculpture Magazine by Sarah Tanguy (review) September 2006
American Style Magazine “Filling Glass With Meaning: Tim Tate and the Washington Glass School” by Lee Lawerence (article and reproduction) June 2006
Washington Times, by Joanna Shaw Eagle (review and reproduction), May 6, 2006
City Paper by Kriston Capps (review and reproduction) Apr. 28, 2006
Washington Post by Micheal O’Sullivan (review) Apr. 7, 2006
The Gazette by Claudia Rousseau, (review & reproduction), November 22, 2005
PBS Television “Around Town” Broadcast, “Tim Tate and The Washington Glass School” (feature story) aired November 29,2005, Washington, DC.
Washington Blade by Greg Marzullo, (review & reproductions), November 11, 2005
The Gazette by Claudia Rousseau (review), December 22,2004
Out Magazine Top 100 Most Successful People of the Year December, 2004
Washington Post by Jonathon Piaget (review) November 11, 2004
Washington Blade by Brian Moylan, (article & reproductions), November 12, 2004
National Public Radio "Kojo Nmamdi Show" Broadcast interview, aired November 17, 2004
Washington Times , by Joanna Shaw Eagle (review and reproduction), July 10, 2004
City Paper by Jeffery Cudlin (review and reproduction) June 4, 2004.
Glass Talk Radio "Dale Smeltzer Show " Broadcast interview, aired March 9, 2004
This Side Up! (Dutch Magazine) by Angela Van Der Burght (review & reproductions) January,2004
Washington Post Mayor’s Award recipients, January 8, 2004
Washington Blade by Dwaun Sellers, (article & reproductions), June 30, 2003
Washington Post by Michael O’Sullivan (review & reproductions) June 11, 2003
Washington Post by Michael O’Sullivan (review & reproductions) April 26, 2002
Washington Post by Nicky Miller (feature article & reproductions) March 28, 2002

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
District Government Project - Wilson Building Public Art
Liberty Park at Liberty Center, Outdoor Sculpture Commission, Arlington, VA (under construction)
The Adele, Outdoor Sculpture Commission Silver Spring, MD (under construction)
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ariel Rios Building Courtyard, Outdoor Sculpture Commission, Washington, DC
National Institute of Health (NIH) Sculpture Commission, Hatfield Clinic, Bethesda, MD
Upper Marlboro Courthouse, Sculpture Commission, Prince Georges County, MD
American Physical Society / Baltimore Science Center, Sculpture Commission, Baltimore, MD
The Residences of Rosedale, Outdoor Sculpture Commission, Bethesda, MD
Holy Cross Hospital, Sculpture for Oncology Ward, Silver Spring, MD
The Carmen Group, Sculpture Commission, Washington, DC
Winner, International Competition, New Orleans AIDS Monument, New Orleans, LA (under construction)