Clare E. Rojas

Clare E. Rojas embraces a multidisciplinary practice that centers on storytelling and formal simplicity. She is best known for her paintings, which often take inspiration from folk art and geometric abstraction; they explore gender roles, humans’ relationship with nature, and the universal quest for harmony and balance. Rojas often fills her canvases with bright, angular shapes and provocative patches of negative space. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and has featured in shows at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the New Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among other institutions. Her work belongs in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Rojas also sculpts, writes poetry, and makes music under the pseudonym Peggy Honeywell.