Current news and announcements http://www.marshall.edu/cofa/art/events.html Tue, 3 March 2009 19:42:49GMT HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - The Birke Art Gallery on Marshall University’s Huntington campus will host a lecture by visiting artist Doug Beube at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 5 in room 154 of Smith Hall, adjacent to the gallery. The event is free and open to the public. Beube will discuss the processes involved in creating his one-of-a-kind books called “bookworks,” an amalgam of mixed-media techniques that the artist employs to physically deconstruct books, reassembling and sculpting them into forms that mirror the original book’s implied content. Beube works in collage, digital animation, installation, photography and sculpture. He is known internationally as one of the few book artists working with aesthetic and intellectual integrity and creativity in the genre of altered books. In 1993 he began curating a private collection of artist's books titled “The Allan Chasanoff Bookworks Collection: The Book Under Pressure.” The artist graduated from York University in Toronto with a B.F.A. in filmmaking and received an M.F.A. in photography at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY. Beube teaches artist's books, mixed media, and photography and lectures at various universities and art programs around the country. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, and his bookworks and photography are in numerous private and public collections.