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An American Artist

Frank Turek

Triweekly articles where I share the thoughts surrounding my visual art, about the medium of boxed assemblage art, the poetry of images, visual non-narrative storytelling, and philosophical ideas that will give you access to this wonder-filled world.

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Boxed Assemblage: The Ballad of Badlands Williams (2005)

Description

This small square box, 5 inches by 5 inches by 2 ½ inches, has two front windows. The main window is nearly all taken up with a black-and-white photo of two hands holding an armadillo coiled up in a ball. This photo is mount...

8 months ago
4

My Old Material

One Question

One of the questions about my art that used to irritate me the most was, “Where do you get your material?” Reflecting on this, I think that at the heart of my irritation was just disappointment that a viewer thought to ask...

9 months ago
4
1

Boxed Assemblage: Lost Summer (2020)

Description

Lost Summer is a small boxed assemblage, seven inches tall and five inches wide. The front frame and top are covered with a color photo of autumnal foliage, and the sides are covered with color illustrations of an imagined p...

10 months ago
2

Book Assemblage: The Source Book Encyclopedic Set

Opportunities

Sometime in 2007, at a Portland Public Library book sale, I acquired an incomplete set—ten volumes—of the Source Book Encyclopedic, a 1930s encyclopedia. With its embossed covers and stock articles about mostly science an...

10 months ago
1

This Substack Is Called An American Artist. Part One: Artist

Introduction

One of my motivations with this Substack account is to offer up my ruminations on what it means to be an artist in this country, the United States of America; hence the title of this post. And over the course of two or thr...

a year ago
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    Boxed assemblage art. Narratives, visual poems, and philosophical ideas all done with collage and found objects meticulously arranged in a box.

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