Frank Turek's
boxed assemblages
boxed assemblages
Small works from 2007 : Box Assemblages by Frank Turek
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Small works from 2007 : Box Assemblages by Frank Turek |
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About these small assemblages
Well over a year ago, spring 2006, I acquired three small frames and worked on some ideas for assemblages using postcards as background for the small stage of the enclosure. I got as far as finding the postcards for each piece and the surrounding elements for one of them and then the project got sidelined and shelved. Around this same time I was wanting to do a series of pieces somehow related to Swift's Gulliver's Travels. I acquired frames and designed a format with a small enclosure centered, with pages of text providing a frame mat. I chose backgrounds from interior design books and worked on finding additional elements to this series when it too was relegated to the procrastination pile. In the intervening time I closed up my gallery and moved my studio across town.
In March of 2007 I focused the Gulliver's Travels project to only be about the voyage to Brobdingnag and brought into the series seven species of dinosaurs to further hone the idea and bringing to fruition these artworks.
Jumping ahead to the late summer of 2007, I found the cardboard box that contained the three small unfinished boxed and decided to think more about these pieces. I thought that there should be no objects in these assemblages but instead I would use found images and present them as objects using thin cut glass pillars to display them.
Inspired by the strength and simplicity of these pieces I began work on seven more using the same architecture and general restrictions. Using words found from a set of vocabulary flash cards to provide titles and thematic guidance, I completed this new series in the Fall of 2007.~ F. Turek Oct. 2007