Looking At You From a Distance Not Too Far: Work by Marvin Tate features more than a dozen works by the Chicago-based visual artist, performance poet, lyricist, author and educator. Tate is known for his biographical art in the form of assemblage, portraits and landscapes, which are composed of found objects and fragments from everyday life. The exhibition opens Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. A North Lawndale native, Tate grew up in a home without a TV or radio, in which the family entertained one another with songbooks and reading aloud. `I remember hours spent exploring abandoned buildings, walking the streets of changing neighborhoods and playing in my mother`s closet,` said Tate. These existential journeys were filled with fear, excitement
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