Anglim Gilbert Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Clare Rojas.

Rojas’ new paintings feature abstract forms at play in space.  Her new forms and distilled color palette of strong slightly-off-primary hues with black are at rest against a soft pale ground, contained but energized.  Rojas has moved further toward precision and reduction, and her refined shapes appear linked, practically animated with their own properties-- of character or personality? 

The artist’s interest in history and story-telling invites the viewer to read the compositions as a narrative stripped down to its symbols, in an abstracted pictorial shorthand.  Taking a different path toward the destination of formal abstraction, Rojas’ practice engages the optic energies of blocked color that almost meet, frame other shapes, group together or pull away into the painted illusory space.

Clare Rojas studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Chicago Art Institute before moving to the Bay Area where she lives and maintains her studio.  She has exhibited internationally, including solo shows at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the Museo De Arte Contemporaneo de Castillo y Leon in Spain and the Museum Het Doemien in the Netherlands. She received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Artadia and the Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship.  Also an accomplished musician and performer, she has several books and music CD’s published.