Clare Rojas*
LOT 15
The Red Triangle, 2023
Oil on linen
8 x 10 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman
Suggested retail value: $18,000
Starting bid: $12,000
About the Artwork
Clare Rojas (Headlands Artist in Residence ‘03) is a painter, sculptor, installation artist, and musician whose studio practice is intricately connected to storytelling. Rojas employs a deeply personal visual language in her work, alternating between 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 and playing on our instinctive desire to decode and comprehend images. In her vibrant contemplative work The Red Triangle, a female figure sits on a red triangle jutting out into the sea; the painting explores the curious and precarious beauty of the vast California coast at an intimate scale. Rojas’s works are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NY; SFMOMA; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Smart Museum, University of Chicago; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland; Dakis Joannou Collection, Greece; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, among others. She has been awarded grants and residencies from Artadia, Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and Joan Mitchell Foundation. Rojas has had solo exhibitions at MCA Chicago; IKON Gallery, England; Museum Het Domein, Netherlands; Savannah College of Art and Design, GA; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; Belkin Satellite, Vancouver; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco,
and more. Rojas will be the subject of an upcoming solo exhibition at the
Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC.
HOW TO BID:
Bidding is available from May 19-June 6.
1) Text 'READY TO BID' or call 628-279-6010.
OR
2) Visit the Headlands Auction Exhibition to see the artwork and bid via pencil & paper.