Scherzo in Purple – Seagull and Pink School, linocut with ink, acrylic, colored pencil, on marbled paper, 30 x 20,” 2026
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
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North American Print Biennial
hosted by The Boston Printmakers Gallery 808, Boston, MA Sept. 8 - Nov. 21 |
SAGA: 90th Annual Members Exhibition
at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ Sept. 11- Sept. 27 |
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Statement
My work offers an alternative perspective to viewpoints that see animals and the environment primarily in terms of their usefulness to human-kind. I try to capture the consciousness of animals as they exist independently from, but intermingled with humanity. I marble paper to create variable and unique surfaces that I transform in to land and sea scapes and populate with linocut prints of animals. I include evidence of human habitation such as vehicles, trash, or architecture to show how land and animals are inextricably linked to human consumption and also exist independently from human’s ability to extract use from them. Through my work, I try to balance the beauty I see with ominous forces I encounter in the world around me. Bio Tate Klacsmann is a member of Zea Mays Printmaking and has served as a council member for the Society of American Graphic Artists. His work has been shown nationally and internationally and is included in the permanent collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art, The Smith College Museum of Art, and Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, and is part of the flat files of Zea Mays Printmaking. He completed an MFA at Vermont State University, a Masters of Art History at University of Glasgow, and BA at Yale University. He has been teaching art and art history for more than ten years at schools including: Northern Vermont University, Augusta University, SUNY Columbia Greene, and Bard Early College – Hudson Valley and has been a visiting artist or lecturer at the Hotchkiss School, Springfield College, and New River Community College. |
Squid and Oil Tanker, linocut, acrylic, ink on marbled evolon, 2025
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