Doug Beube, an Artist Talk at BookWorks
On April 28th, Thursday beginning at 6 PM, Asheville Bookworks is pleased to announce an Artist Talk by, Doug Beube. Free and Open to the Public.
Doug Beube is a mixed-media artist working in bookworks, collage, sculpture and photography. Since 1993, he has been curator of a private collection in New York City entitled, The Allan Chasanoff Bookworks Collection: The Book Under Pressure. Doug teaches classes at Parsons The New School in mixed-media, artists’ books and photography and workshops at Penland, Haystack and Peter’s Valley. He regularly lectures on his work throughout the US and Canada. Prior to receiving an MFA in Photography from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, graduating in 1983, he was darkroom assistant to Minor White in Arlington, MA. He exhibits extensively both nationally and internationally and his bookworks and photographs are in numerous private and public collections. In the spring of 
2011 a monograph about his artwork over the past thirty years entitled, Breaking the Codex: Bookworks, Collage and Mixed-Media, will be available. Several writers, critics and curators contributed essays about his art. From March to May, he will be at the Cassilhaus Art Residency in Chapel Hill, NC working on a commissioned mixed-media bookwork.
