Eugene Sarmiento is an artist and educator from Oak Cliff, Dallas, TX currently living in Daito City, Osaka, Japan. He received his BFA in Printmaking from the University of Texas at Arlington and his MFA in Printmaking and Drawing from the University of Kansas. Eugene enjoys spending time in gardens smelling the roses, currently listening to Turnstile and Sudan Archives in the studio, admiring the works of William Blake, and filling in his sketchbook with images of time's perpetual existential dread
“My works on paper are based on moments of love in grief, longing, transcendental goodbyes and concepts of internalized mortality. I visualize memories and tribulations woven within the wells of joy and content. Within my iconography, I personify many objects relating to markers of life such as heavy tombstones, dying suns, memories of has-been flowers, and the forever hauling heavy duty work truck. I interpret joy and despondency as two sides to the same coin asking “how are we going to know what the good times are if we never have the bad times?”
