Altered Book Art

Frank Turek's book assemblage art

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Yearly Archives: 2018

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Fait Accompli

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Observatory

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

The Case for Interplanetary Plasma

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

Entombment

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

142,000 Tons of Crude Rubber

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 reflects 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 armor black and white photo blue boat cat children's book colored glass color photo comic book dictionary illustration disembodied head drawer etching illustration fabric sample floral Florida flowers game card game piece glass glass shelf green interior decorating landscape list of words lithograph illustration magazine photo medical illustration mirror painting paisley plastic figures playing card portrait postcard primer purple red red felt rusted metal toy vials wallpaper pattern

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