"Over the past two decades, Clare Rojas has developed a deeply personal visual language that is equally rooted in mythology, ecofeminism, as well as the legacy of abstraction. Moving freely from dense, fantastical landscapes to minimal compositions, Rojas' own experiences are often the starting points of her paintings, connecting these to nearly fantastical depictions of the environments in which she works."
"Developed in parallel to the artist's own relocation from Northern California to her home state of Ohio, the paintings in Pilgrimage work to record and explore the process of finding, and returning home. Here, Rojas' delicately layered geometric forms are newly animated as characters, playing on our innate desire to assign narrative to even abstract images. Presented isolated within fields of negative space, they are joined by animals adopting human behaviors, and figures that appear to meld into the horizon,"
Clare Rojas employs a personal visual language rooted in mythology, ecofeminism, and abstraction to render life's cycles and women's experiences from joy to sickness, entrapment, and freedom. Her paintings alternate between dense fantastical landscapes and minimal compositions, often beginning from autobiographical moments and translating environments into near-fantastical depictions. Lyrical sensitivity and arrangements akin to musical compositions guide formal decisions, symbolic elements, and prismatic color to build emotional resonance. Relocation from Northern California to Ohio frames a narrative of finding and returning home through delicately layered geometric forms animated as characters. Recurring witnesses, animals with human behaviors, and a red-sailboat self-portrait chart shifting emotional states.
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