Clare Rojas
LOT 13
White Mountain Blue Sea at Night, 2016
Oil on linen
20 x 16 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman
Suggested retail value: $25,000
Starting bid: $10,000
About the Artwork
Clare Rojas (Headlands Artist in Residence ‘03) moves freely in her work between dense figurative scenes and minimal, abstract compositions where metaphor, symbology, and fantastical imagery link the past and present, the mystical and mundane. Rojas distills fleeting memories and experiences into concrete shapes; the resulting works are akin to a musical arrangement, mixing symbolic elements, formal decisions, and autobiographical allusions to evoke life’s cycles—from sickness to health, entrapment to freedom, and birth and re-birth. White Mountain Blue Sea at Night presents for careful contemplation the energetic essence of a moment: a scene, a space, a feeling; one’s eye traces land, sea, light, and night around the canvas, echoing the simple and infinite cycle of clock-time and the play between the day and the darkness. Rojas’s works are widely held in the permanent collections of institutions such as SFMOMA; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and more. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from Artadia and from the Fleishhacker, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Joan Mitchell Foundations. Rojas has presented solo exhibitions at MCA Chicago; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA; and Savannah College of Art and Design, GA, among others; in 2024, her work was the subject of Clare Rojas: Past the Present at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC.
HOW TO BID:
Bidding is available from May 18-June 5.
1) Text 'READY TO BID' or call 628-237-8195.
OR
2) Visit Headlands' Auction Exhibition to see the artwork and bid via pen & paper.
