Dolan geiman biography of christopher

Since childhood, Dolan Geimanhas been collecting “found objects” that have inspired him to create mixed media artwork in his adult life.

Dolan geiman biography of christopher

Scraps from old textbooks and nature magazines, salvaged wood, handwritten civil war love letters, metal ornaments, wooden nickels and other discarded ephemera find their way into his work; each item stirs nostalgia for a not-too-distant, more rural time and place Geiman identifies as home.

His Chicago studio has come to resemble a life-size cabinet of Southern curiosities, not too dissimilar from the abandoned homesteads of his native Virginia where he has collected, or rescued, many treasures.

Trained as a sculptor and printmaker, almost every one of Geiman’s artworks is thick with construction.

Beginning with a salvaged background surface, oftentimes a panel of wood from shipping crates or road signs, Geiman’s ideas achieve form in layers through a mixture of collage, assemblage, drawing, painting,