Tim Tate (American, b. 1960), I Dream of Flying

circa 2008, blown and cast glass, electronic components, original looped video, signed to the underside, displayed on a painted steel wall bracket.

Sculpture 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; wall bracket 9 x 7 1/2 x 9 in.

Private Collection, Alexandria, Virginia

Acquired directly from the artist.

Tim Tate is co-founder of the Washington Glass Studio in Washington, D.C. Tim’s work is in the permanent collections of a number of museums, including the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. He was also the 2010 recipient of the Virginia Groot Foundation award for sculpture and is a 2018 James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Artist, among many other awards.

He received his Fulbright Award from Sunderland, University in England in 2012. In 2018 he was asked to speak at Yale University on Craft and Conflict by Glenn Adamson to represent the Queer community and its history of art activism. He founded the Triangle Artist Group in the early 90s, and was also chair of the first Art Against Aids charity event in Washington, D.C. He is the also the designer of the New Orleans Aids Monument.

He participated in the Glasstress show with Ai Wei Wei and Vic Muniz during the 2019 Venice Biennale and the Boca Raton Museum Glasstress show in January 2021.

Tim's recent exhibitions include: Joyce Scott/Tim Tate Collaborations, Goya Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland (2024); Visions Of Our Natural World , Momentum Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina (2024); Glass: Art. Beauty. Design, Hillwood Museum, Washington, DC (2023); Habatat Gallery 50th Anniversary Show in Detroit (2022); GLASSTRESS. WINDOW TO THE FUTURE, The Hermitage State Museum / St. Petersburg, Russia (2021).

Good condition; some visible glue residue to the underside wing finial as made.