Janie Geiser is a multidisciplinary American artist whose practice includes performance, film, installation, and visual art. Her work in collage animation has been central to her artistic output for more than twenty-five years. Using painted cutouts, vintage materials, found objects, live action, still photography, and manipulations of light and shadow, she creates imaginary worlds that explore memory, language, and identity. Her approach to sound is equally evocative. From The Red Book, which was nominated to the National Film Registry, to her more recent works, Geiser’s films are influenced by surrealism, psychology, art history, design, and Americana, and they reveal a unique and accomplished vision.

— Susan Oxtoby