Altered Book Art

Frank Turek's book assemblage art

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altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

fin de siècle

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

An 1,800 Years Old Egg

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

142,000 Tons of Crude Rubber

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Light

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

Escapade

altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

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altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

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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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