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My Paintings are my interpretation of the ever
relevant
paradoxes of faith, war and nature. Much of what I do is predicated
upon a
personal fundamental acceptance of the “divine
absurdities” of existence, and
the duality’s in our existence of love/hate, violence/peace,
silent/sound,
night/day.
I
focus on our cultures’ abuse of the
environment, our love affair with greed, our throw away consumerism and
our
sanitizing of violence. These abuses are glossed over
with
religious
platitudes.
I’ve been called
political, but I don’t know how to separate politics from
art. Both ask
something of us, something that challenges us to a responsibility.
Painter or
politician, we come as candidates. We want our message to resonate with
the
body politic, with the voters. We make promises.
I
was born in Yakima, WA
in 1940 and raised on a farm near Camp
Adair
in the Willamette Valley, OR.
After completing my B.A. and M.F.A. from the University
of Arkansas,
Fayetteville,
I returned to Oregon
and Newport
in 1985. The subjects from my paintings are influenced by my growing up
experiences on a farm where I was raised by a family consisting of avid
environmentalists and gun lovers. My father’s gun cabinet was
part of my parents’
bedroom furniture
Sandy Roumagoux
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Homeland
Security
Oil On Linen Canvas
7'
x 8'
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