A few questions with Mike Germon
Source, featuring collage work by Mike Germon and Truett Dietz opens at Beep Beep Gallery this weekend.
Mike Germon is often behind the scenes, whether as gallery manager for MINT or blogging on Thoughtmarker or at his day job doing freelance video production. This weekend, though, he’ll be on the other side of things, showing his work as a collage artist alongside Truett Dietz for Source at Beep Beep Gallery.
What can you tell me about the source for your collages? Magazines?
Most of my source material for this show come from books that I get from thrift stores. I like to use art history books, science text books, and books of photography. I also used a lot of space images from a calendar of NASA photography but no magazines. Truett Dietz (the other artist in Source) is more of a magazine guy. He uses a lot of National Geographic and more news oriented stuff.
What’s your process like?
Sometimes I’ll scan images and do things to them in photoshop before reprinting them, but for the most part they are straight out of books. What usually happens is after a trip to some thrift stores I go through and cut out a lot of my favorite images and just hold on to them for a while. At some point I make quick collages on my scanner and use these photocopies as sketches for the final pieces that I end up putting together from original clippings.