Clare Rojas: The Magic of It All
Clare Rojas: The Magic of It All
July 9-August 6, 2022
For her first Los Angeles pop-up show, Jessica Silverman is thrilled to present Clare Rojas’s “The Magic of It All,” on view for only four weeks from July 9 to August 6. This new body of work fuses the artist’s magic realist figuration with her precise abstraction to create compositions that are at once witty and sublime. Combining the surreal whimsy of Dorothea Tanning with the geometric vigor of Kazimir Malevich, Rojas explores the curious and precarious beauty of the California coast and its sentient wildlife.
Opening Weekend: July 9–10 from 10AM–6PM
Public Viewing Hours: Thursday–Saturday, 11AM–5PM or by appointment, please email.
Location: Case Gallery
Between W 3rd St & Alden Dr
Across the street from Georgetown Cupcake on Robertson Blvd
INSTALLATION VIEW
SELECTED WORKS
She Believed in the Magic of it All, 2022
Oil on linen
56 x 70 inches / 142.2 x 177.8 cm
In the Reflection was Itself, 2022
Acrylic on panel
56 x 64 inches / 142.2 x 162.6 cm
Hanging On, 2022
Acrylic on panel
64 x 56 inches / 162.6 x 142.2 cm
Bodiless Mind, 2022
Acrylic on panel
64 x 56 inches / 162.6 x 142.2 cm
In the Reflection was Itself, 2022
Acrylic on panel
56 x 64 inches / 142.2 x 162.6 cm
Hanging On, 2022
Acrylic on panel
64 x 56 inches / 162.6 x 142.2 cm
Bodiless Mind, 2022
Acrylic on panel
64 x 56 inches / 162.6 x 142.2 cm
I'll Always Have this Little Movie in My Head, 2022
Acrylic on panel
Framed, 49 x 49 x 2 1/2 inches / 124.5 x 124.5 x 6.3 cm
Lost Yellow Shoe, 2022
Oil on linen
Framed, 15 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches / 39.4 x 34.3 x 3.8 cm
Fractured Rainbow Through Her Forest, 2022
Oil on linen
Framed, 15 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches / 39.4 x 34.3 x 3.8 cm
I'll Always Have this Little Movie in My Head, 2022
Acrylic on panel
Framed, 49 x 49 x 2 1/2 inches / 124.5 x 124.5 x 6.3 cm
Lost Yellow Shoe, 2022
Oil on linen
Framed, 15 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches / 39.4 x 34.3 x 3.8 cm
Fractured Rainbow Through Her Forest, 2022
Oil on linen
Framed, 15 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches / 39.4 x 34.3 x 3.8 cm
In this work and nine other paintings, the viewer is invited to bear witness to the tragicomedy of human survival, the absurdity of patriarchy, and the woe of environmental disaster. Fearlessly existential but ultimately hopeful, Rojas’s pictorial philosophy looks to nature as an enlightening force that heals, guides, invigorates, and inspires wonder.
The End of the Road at the Edge of the World, 2022
Oil on linen
Framed, 30 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches / 77.5 x 62.2 cm
Still Life with Red Poppy, 2022
Oil on linen
Framed, 17 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches / 44.5 x 39.4 x 3.8 cm
The Swell, 2017
Oil on panel
42 1/4 x 34 3/8 inches / 107.3 x 87.2 cm
Untitled, 2018
Oil on linen
9 x 12 inches / 22.9 x 30.3 cm
Dark Star, 2017
Oil on panel
50 x 40 inches / 127 x 101.6 cm
The Swell, 2017
Oil on panel
42 1/4 x 34 3/8 inches / 107.3 x 87.2 cm
Untitled, 2018
Oil on linen
9 x 12 inches / 22.9 x 30.3 cm
Dark Star, 2017
Oil on panel
50 x 40 inches / 127 x 101.6 cm
Emerging from Darkness to Find Herself, 2022
Gouache on paper
Framed, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches / 26 x 19.7 cm
To and Fro, 2022
Gouache on paper
Framed, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches / 26 x 19.7 cm
Manifest, 2022
Gouache on paper
Framed, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches / 26 x 19.7 cm
Emerging from Darkness to Find Herself, 2022
Gouache on paper
Framed, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches / 26 x 19.7 cm
To and Fro, 2022
Gouache on paper
Framed, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches / 26 x 19.7 cm
Manifest, 2022
Gouache on paper
Framed, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches / 26 x 19.7 cm
ARTIST BIO
Clare Rojas (b. 1976, Columbus, OH) is in the permanent collections of MoMA New York; SFMOMA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Dakis Joannou Collection, Greece; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; and the Smart Museum, University of Chicago. She has been awarded grants and residencies from Artadia, Eureka Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at MCA Chicago; IKON Gallery, England; Museum Het Domein, Netherlands; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA; Savannah College of Art and Design, GA; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; Knoxville Museum of Art, TN; Belkin Satellite, Vancouver; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco. She has a BFA in printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in painting from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rojas lives and works in the SF Bay Area, CA and is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.