Clare Rojas*

Lot #3
Rectangle Outline, Pebbles, 2020
Gouache on paper
11 x 8.5 x 1 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco

About the Artwork

Clare Rojas’s (Headlands Artist in Residence ‘03) work defies art-historical pigeonholes; well known for her magic realist and otherworldly abstract paintings, Rojas has developed her own form of pan-American high-folk figurative abstraction. True to her surname—“Rojas” is the feminine plural of “rojo,” the Spanish word for red—Rojas is an avid colorist; she loves mixing paint and experimenting with hues. “I’m honestly obsessed with color, but it’s not something I can talk about,” says Rojas. “I feel like I have an animal intelligence for color, like when a dog intuits that an earthquake is coming.” She has been awarded grants and residencies from Artadia, Fleishhacker Foundation, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and has had many solo shows in public institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; IKON Gallery, Birmingham, England; Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands; and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Her work is in the permanent collections of SFMOMA; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, among others.

Retail Value: $4,500