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          Tate Overton started painting, mixed medium collage, and relief work while studying architecture using mix medium to further represent his architectural conceptual ideas. In addition to working in visual arts, Tate is a practicing architect and active musician, composer, and producer working with song writers, filmmakers, and multiple ensembles as a bassist, percussionist, guitarist and vocalist. He has continued developing painting techniques and figurative abstract work as a method to support and influence his musical and architectural interests. The barrier between music, physical space and visual art is in constant question within his working approach.

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“I like to think of my paintings as musical compositions - working with various mediums, I’m translating an intangible concept into an emotionally charged visualization. 

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Song writing is an essential influence for developing my work, whether by controlled orchestration, chance operations, or impulsive reaction methods. 

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I often use photography as part of my process. The photograph captures an environmental structure, melody, and spirit which inspires an initial composition idea. 

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In terms of interaction with an audience, I am most interested when the viewer first engages in the work, then absorbs and completes the piece by reflecting their own emotional subjectivity. I want to celebrate and maintain those moments.” – Tate Overton