Jake Tate is a fine arts major who works at the Dayton Art of Institute as a preparator and has an ignited interest in photography and building materials in his spare time.
Tate sees his surrounding environment as inspiration for his numerous art projects.
“I think a lot of it has to do with environment, setting. How people interact with an environment and industrial complexes, things of that nature. I direct a lot of inspiration from that because it has a lot to do with material, and the juxtaposition of labor and materials,” Tate said.
Tate has been in both solo and group shows; some student nominated which took place at the Dayton Society of Artists in downtown Dayton. His second solo show is currently going on in the experimental gallery located in the Creative Arts Center.
“It’s kind of a product of a few week long process of just doing the same type of thing over and over again, and then really getting to know what you’re doing with it, so I think it yielded at the end of that something fairly successful,” Tate said, regarding one his tentatively titled art pieces called “Reanimator.”
Using a combination of sculpting, painting and drawing, Tate discovered different templates to use in his art. Tate says he likes to start “with a simple geometric form and then try to apply different materials to it, or vice versa if I see a material I want to use,” and enjoys using the “juxtaposition of material and simple forms.”
Tate also believes all his classes and some of his professors have been crucial to the development of himself and his work as an artist. He sees both grad school or working with Dayton Society of Printmakers as possible options for his future.
“Just keep investigating, keep pushing. Continue school. Continue developing,” Tate said about himself as an artist.
