Acquisitions by several museums (including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick in the DC area) have also all contributed to the development, and growth of this talented and groundbreaking artist.
The art fairs have also played an important part. SOFA New York was the start a couple of years ago, followed more recently by SOFA Chicago and AAF New York and artDC. Tate is now heading to Art Basel Miami Beach where his work will be at FLOW.
At the last fair in Chicago, Tate sold 14 sculptures (including a museum acquisition), and I am told his newest video pieces were the buzz of the fair. In "Call for Redemption," a motion detector triggers a video while a small speaker wails the Moslem call to prayers recorded by Tate at Istanbul earlier this year (where he was with Michael Janis, teaching glass techniques at a workshop in Turkey).
The results from all these aggregate points and events yield an artist with a trail of many years of hard work now beginning to reap what he has sown, and because art is a commodity, prices are an indicator as well, and Tate's now start around $2,500 and up. Look for the "up" part to continue to rise.
In the rarified upper artmosphere of the art world, $2,500 is nothing. Tate's prices will continue to rise.
Disclaimer: Zip Objectivity. Buy Tim Tate now.
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