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Tag: Back-Story UnderPainting

Limited Palette Paintings: A Group Show at Cerulean Gallery

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| abstracts, Cerulean Gallery, Exhibits, Paintings, White Space

Are you looking for something original, simple, beautiful, and affordable? Roloff’s color-field paintings offer more than just a simplified color palette and unique texture for your space he also adds his personal history and charm to every piece.  Limited Palette Paintings for the Month of May, artist reception May 4th 4-9pm “First Thursday” 2017. The majority […]

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The Great Collapse aka the Economy

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| Available for Sale, Back-Story Underpainting

Title: The Great Collapse (lady liberty falls to her knees) aka the Economy Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 40 x 30 inches Series: Back-Story Under Painting (The first in the series) ID#: SGR3023 Year: 2009-10 Price for Original: $2,000 Description/Notes: This painting was inspired by the recent economic crisis.  It’s hard to tell from the image […]

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Open House with special guest Secretary of State Kate Brown, and a show and sale of work by artists with disabilities

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| Exhibits

I have been selected to exhibit a few of my most recent paintings for a group show benefiting Disability Rights Oregon. I will also debut a sample of my latest series of paintings from the “Back-Story Under-Painting” series.  I will also be donating this painting for the silent auction so make sure to place your bid early […]

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Spring Release: Spring in Portland with Ant DNA

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| Acquired Works

Title: Spring Release: Spring in Portland with Ant DNA Size: 48 x 36 inches Date: 2009 Medium: Oil on Canvas Sold: Private Collection of Dr. Ryan and Maria Anderson Sam Roloff’s “Springtime in Portland with Ant DNA” is a brilliant expression within a new genre of art called “Back-story Underpainting”. The idea originated in Sam […]

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geometry environment relationship

Sam Roloff’s abstract works range from an almost hypnotic reference to the landscape, to geometric shapes that suggest architecture, construction, and the substrates of interiors and the urban environment

With rich colors, as well as stark blacks and whites, each painting carries through the theme of ‘back-story’.

There is a reference to time passing and the daily undercurrents of thought, phrases, connections, missed opportunities, and triumphs that make up the human experience.

women of portland

This series of portraits is built on the premise that each person has a unique story that informs the present.

Inspired by the dynamic and beautiful women of Sam Roloff’s adopted home, each portrait expresses the spirit of the subject and is a tribute to women all over the world who lead, support, create, and enlighten.

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