BIO

Beau Tate is a multimedia artist working with installation, printmaking, and fiber arts emphasizing text, texture, and familiar found objects to replicate and preserve the intimacies of human relationships. He centers his perspective through the memorializing of memory within a queer lens. Tate is currently working as a tattoo artist in Minneapolis, MN under the name "tug tats" following the completion of his BFA at MCAD in the spring of 2020. 

PRACTICE

Tate's work focuses itself within the  intimacies of human interaction & relationships; the moments shared by friends, family, and strangers alike. Tate uses the performative residue of organized placement, text (poetry) and visual narrative to maximize the sensory experience within his work.

Always experimenting with new techniques, Tate creates physical spaces out of interactive and sensory forward pieces and experiments with cast or carved objects and hand printed matter in attempt to demonstrate reproduction and preservation of body and visceral presence in queer, romantic, and interpersonal settings.