Altered Book Art

Frank Turek's book assemblage art

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altered book boxed assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Hesperides

altered book boxed assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Openings of Canals

altered book boxed assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

The midnight blackness increased tenfold as the shimmering, silver moon disappeared behind the low

altered book boxed assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

High Passage

altered book boxed assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Runaway Horse

altered book boxed assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Principal Events: What Will a Magnet Pull?

altered book boxed assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Table of the Mystic Numbers

altered book boxed assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Throwing Stones

altered book boxed assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Hope & Expectations

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

fin de siècle

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Carry The Bats!

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Translating World

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

This is the blade of my knife.

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

What are you afraid of my love?

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

By Moonlight

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Figure Study

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

The Case for Interplanetary Plasma

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

This Is That Our With Them

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

My Nemesis Was Passion

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

The Sympathetic System

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Confidence Man

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Origin of the Tetrapods (A Pataphysical Exercise)

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Dem Bones

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Fait Accompli

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Observatory

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

An 1,800 Years Old Egg

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

The Distance at Which Heavy Gun Firing Has Been Heard

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Radio Stations in the United States

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Manuscripts of Copernicus

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

142,000 Tons of Crude Rubber

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Nematodes

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Evaporation in the United States

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

…its attraction for Eros with the Earth’s influence.

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Light

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Education

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Reliquary for G. Maddin

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Entombment

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Sublime

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

The Life of the Snail

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Where the shadow falls

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Escapade

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Avalon

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

stuck

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Death, as it comes to all things, comes to a saguaro, desert monarch.

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Harvest (The Black Queen)

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Inexorable as doom

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Nobody’s Darling

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Canticle

In Extremis

In Extremis

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Primordial Swamp, part 2

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Life’s Lessons

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

On Survival

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

The Outlaw

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

How far away is the skyline?

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Divining the True and the False

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

The Perfect Mark

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

The Rational Domain: Whole Numbers and Visible Light

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

The Story So Far…

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Desultory Imaginings

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Oculus

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Not old done do Wolf

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Primordial Swamp, part 1

About the Art

My technique is in the margins of the dominant trend in altered book art. Most altered book artists will utilize the existing book as a whole as the source material. For them, the pages and their manipulation become the focal point of the piece. My approach is to gut the pages entirely and use only the book’s cover. [Read More]

About the Artist

Frank Turek is a born-and-raised New England artist. His aesthetics and philosophy reflect the regional zeitgeist of Emersonian transcendentalism mixed with Continental European thought.
Since 1984 Turek has been residing in the quiescent little burg of Portland, Maine, where he quietly works away on his boxed assemblage art.

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Common aspects of these boxed assemblages.

$500 bill anatomy arithmetic primer armor bird black and white photo blue bottle cat collaged cards colored glass color photo comic book dice dictionary clippings disembodied head etching illustration eyeball fabric sample floral Florida flowers game card game piece glass grammar primer green interior decorating list of words lithograph illustration map tacks medical illustration mirror painting paisley plastic figures playing card postcard primer purple red rusted metal toy vials wallpaper pattern
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