Clare Rojas (b. 1976, USA) is a painter, sculptor, installation artist and musician whose studio practice is intricately connected to storytelling. She employs a deeply personal visual language in her work, alternating between dense figurative scenes, and minimal, abstract compositions. Rojas approaches both with a consistent, lyrical sensitivity as she interjects totemic references to her own life, seeking new ways to communicate narrative, playing on our instinctive desire to decode, and comprehend images. Drawing on her interest in languages shared throughout the natural world, Rojas looks to distill fleeting memories and experiences into concrete shapes. The resulting works are akin to a musical arrangement, mixing symbolic elements, formal decisions, as well as autobiographical allusions, to evoke life’s cycles, from sickness to health, entrapment to freedom, and birth and re-birth.
Clare Rojas has exhibited extensively in Europe and North America, with notable solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago), Museum of Craft and Folk Art (San Francisco), Museum Het Domein (Sittard), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon (Leon), the Rose Art Museum/Brandeis University (Waltham), Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville), Savannah College of Art And Design (Savannah), among many others. Her work has also been shown at San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose), University of Chicago (Chicago), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (San Francisco), Headlands Centre for the Arts (Sausalito), CCA Centre for Contemporary Art (Knoxville), Deste Foundation/Center for Contemporary Art (Athens), Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts (San Francisco), White Columns (New York), as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia).
