SEPTEMBER 9 – 12, 2021

SOCO Gallery will present a solo booth of large and intimately scaled paintings and works on paper by artist Clare Rojas at Booth 418 at the Armory Show from September 9-12, 2021. 

Rojas is a multiracial (half Peruvian), multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted deeply in ecofeminism. The artist explores the sacred feminine through intuitive connections between animals, nature, the spiritual, and political forces that connect and disconnect. Her work strives to articulate the nuance of emotions within narratives and the universality of forms found within our environments. Detailed intricacies such as subtle hue changes, gracefully drawn boundaries and heavy, saturated blocks of color can either be read from a distance or up close. Rojas' immediately recognizable female figures, animals, flora and fauna, reveal her promise to observe and record the details that surround her. 

Metaphorically, her creative practice is the center of a carousel. The characters that revolve around her are her multimedia arms; painting, drawing, narrative, abstraction, figuration, music, film, installation, and writing. She balances all of the mediums within a self-defined construct that embraces the inherent nature of art and the art making process. 

Rojas was named one of the “5 Artists on Our Radar This January” (2021) by Artsy. 

Created specifically for the Armory Show 2021, the booth presentation will include a balance of figuration, landscape, abstract and narrative. 

Clare Rojas (B. 1976, OH)

Clare Rojas (b. 1976, OH) has received numerous accolades for her work, including grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Eureka Fellowship Award, and the Artadia Award. Her work is in the following public collections: Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA; UCSF Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA; Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. 

Rojas’ work has been reviewed in such publications as the Huffington Post, Artforum International Magazine, Art in America, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, and Art Review. She was named one of the “5 Artists on Our Radar This January” (2021) by Artsy. Recent projects include a site-specific commission for Facebook headquarters in San Francisco, CA (2020) and the Art in Embassies Program in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico (2018), and solo exhibitions at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA (2021), SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2019), Kavi Gupta (2018), and the Alice Gallery in Brussels, Belgium (2016). The artist received her MFA in Painting from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2002 and her BFA in Printmaking, from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1998. Rojas lives and works in San Francisco, CA.