Phone: 206 242-9228

E-mail: aaron@aarontate.com

AARON THANE TATE

Sculptor in the medium of off hand solid, off hand blown, and cast glass

 

 

After a youthful epiphany in the Sonoran desert revealed a life of glassmaking, Aaron Thane Tate eschewed formal training and rapidly displayed an unusual facility with techniques and with his personal compositions. However, he did not ignore the ascending influences of prominent American glassblowers of the 1970’s.

 

During his early and professional years, Tate produced volumes of prevailing fashionable and popular decorative art pieces, interior design fixtures, and functional ware with notable versatility, all of which contributed to his success as a sculptor in solid worked and blown and cast glass.

 

Aaron Tate forms his sculptures in recognizable images of humans and animals, including natural subjects, made objects, and landscapes. He has developed a style in which the juxtaposition of images is often jarring, beautiful or classic and yet enigmatic. By the use of a repetitive light and dark technique superimposed on the surface color, he is able to effect an atmospheric quality to sculptures already suffused with symbolic purport and historic connections. The return of the overall structure and intricate detail is the viewer’s interpretation of the work and to link the art, the artist, and the viewer’s self.

 

Aaron said in part, ”Some of my pieces are happy and uplifting and others make one pensive and thoughtful. That is what the artist strives for, a personal response to a sculpture, an object, that evokes something from one’s personal experiences in this space-time. It’s so…personal – the viewing.”

To contact us:  aaron@aarontate.com