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Portlandia featured my paintings

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| Inside My Studio, Notes from the Studio
Last Supper as seen in Portlandia TV Show IFC

In September 2013, I was asked to paint for Portlandia’s TV show on IFC. They hired me to paint whatever came into their mind.  So I was behind the camera’s painting images for Carrie Brownstein’s character, who was acting as an art student. Two paintings were created for the show and used in the clip […]

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Portlandia

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| Notes from the Studio, Urban Grind

Check out this new TV series on IFC called Portlandia, in this clip you can see my painting in the background titled “140 Days in North Korea”. It was filmed at the Urban Grind North East location in 2010 .Fred Armisen (SNL) and Carrie Brownstein Here is the clip on Hulu Read more about “140 […]

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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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