Size & Details
Size & Details
A veritable trove of Dolan Geiman’s signature collage motifs and techniques, Grand Lake Sketchbook offers a glimpse into the artist’s creative exploration through natural themes, pattern making and classic found paper materials. Primarily a landscape scene, this small work features a stately moose rendered in vintage papers, including antlers bedecked in handwritten letters salvaged from a relative’s long-forgotten steamer trunk.
Notice the quilt pattern in the upper right quadrant – a nod to Mama Made II original paper collage – alongside toadstools that call back to Hummingbird (Cactus) original paper collage. Through this amalgam of characters and elements peeks antique piano sheet music, highlighted with silk screen shapes pulled from Dolan’s woodshop. Mountain and clouds are layered in in carefully applied acrylic paint.
Bring home this mixed media buffet: a whimsical conversation starter for the mountain modern home, or truly any place that is could stand a little infusion of fun.
- Medium: vintage papers and acrylic on wood
- Size: 43" H x 33" W (framed)
- Frame: weathered-grey wood frame with Museum Plexi
- Hardware: ready to hang with wire on back
Process
Process
Limited Series
Limited Series
Each work in Dolan Geiman’s portfolio is unique and hand-crafted. Works indicated with “limited series” are reiterations of a recurring theme or concept.
A Certificate of Authenticity is available upon request.
- Each piece in a limited series is created with an inimitable collection of found materials: no two are exactly alike, although they may look similar at a glance.
- Details, colors, specific materials, typography and frame will differ from work to work.
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Dolan Geiman Paper Collages
Dolan's signature paper collage artwork celebrates America's West and Southwest. Color, composition, and detail come to life in hand-cut vintage materials, many salvaged in Dolan's cross-country travels.
Creating the original collage starts with a wood panel. Dolan pulls vintage sheet music from his vast collection and applies these to the wood, first with glue, then with a top layer of whitewash paint. In many prints, this background layer of sheet music peeks through.
Next, Dolan draws the outline for the original collage in graphite atop the sheet music.
Dolan returns to his extensive trove of collected papers – think magazines, antique textbooks, handwritten letters salvaged from abandoned farmsteads - and begins pulling the ideal colors for the piece. He cuts each piece of material by hand and carefully layers into the artwork. These collages are carefully crafted from thousands of small papers: no two are exactly alike.
Dolan's paper collages are finished in a handmade frame constructed from salvaged metal or a modern, minimal wood or metal frame.
