Altered Book Art

Frank Turek's book assemblage art

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altered book boxed assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

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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.