Collage commission for a Pennsylvania home featuring an eagle landing on a branch, rendered in hand-cut paper. Modern art merges hand-cut paper collage with painting. Finished with wood frame and Musuem plexi. *Medium: vintage papers on wood
*Size: 62" H x 34" W (framed)
*Frame: modern grey wood frame
*Residential commissionnocontentnocontentBeing in the outdoors is my preferred state. Bringing the outdoors inside via carefully constructed artwork is a pretty good second option. While many of my fauna-inspired works bring the viewer into the scene with the creature in their terrestrial (or sometimes aquatic) environment, I decided to bring the viewer into the sky, meeting eagle at branch, hundreds of feet in the air. We attend his landing and await his news from flight.nocontentnocontentEach Dolan Geiman collage is crafted from hand-cut vintage papers sourced over decades of exploration and careful categorizing, held dearly until the perfect piece arrives to claim their colors and texture. Learn more about the making of paper collages here.
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.
