ITEM #009
Doug Beube: Breaking the Codex
Doug Beube
2011, 12"x9"
hardcover, offset, monograph
A thirty year survey of the artist's work with several writers discussing his practice.
Value: $60
Minimum bid: $20
Doug Beube is a mixed-media artist working in bookworks, collage, sculpture and photography. Since 1993, he has been curator of a private collection, The Allan Chasanoff Bookworks Collection: The Book Under Pressure, in New York City. Doug teaches classes at Parsons The New School in artists' books, collage, mixed-media, and photography and workshops at Penland, Haystack and The Center for Book Arts. He regularly lectures on his work throughout the US, Canada and Europe. 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 fall of 2011 a monograph entitled, Doug Beube: Breaking the Codex: Bookworks, was published. David Revere McFadden, chief curator of the Museum of Art and Design in New York City wrote the introduction. The in depth overview of Doug’s artwork, with essay contributions from several well known writers, critics and curators, discuss his art made over the past thirty years, is available through the MOMA Bookstore, Amazon, Boekie Woekie, Central Booking Printed Matter and dougbeube.com.