Clare Rojas is an internationally shown artist who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is "known for creating powerful folk-art-inspired tableaus that tackle traditional gender roles." She works in a variety of media, including painting, installations, video, and children's books. In her more recent work, Rojas has moved from figurative paintings into pure geometric abstraction. She creates spaces that trigger perceptions of both flatness and depth, playing with the optic energies of blocked areas of colors touching, overlapping or receding in the picture plane. Some shapes seem to bend or fold. Perfectly straight edges partner with hand-drawn lines to form her solid shapes, indications that the paintings are not about pure geometry. Making visible brushstrokes, Rojas? process reveals a hand-made textural quality that, together with unexpected combinations of colors, distinguishes her work from reductive forebears. 

January 1st, 1976 in Ohio (Age 48)