CLARE E. ROJAS (b. 1976, Columbus, OH) lives and works in San Francisco.
Clare E. Rojas produces gouaches and large installations that reference Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs, Russian nesting dolls, and American comic books. Her installations are like a hand-made quilt, drawing on universal themes in folk art such as utility, community, individuality and symbolism. In this very personal world, Rojas is constantly poking fun at gender roles and representation, in way that is ironic, but also critical. The large-scale installations often act as a stage for Rojas's musical performances. At most of her exhibition openings, Rojas performs as one of the characters that often appear in her paintings, “Peggy Honeywell.”
Rojas has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Institute, CA, and at the Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver. She has participated in the traveling exhibition Beautiful Losers at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She has recently exhibited at the Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC) Leon, Spain.
Rojas is represented by Deitch Projects in New York.