'I was supposed to talk about the oppression that I felt, the sexism. Which is all really important, but I'm a dimensional person. It’s dehumanizing to just focus on the one aspect that’s the hardest part of a person’s life,' says artist Clare Rojas.
When Jessica Silverman was planning the May opening of her splashy new gallery space in San Francisco’s Chinatown, she knew exactly which artist she wanted to showcase. While the career-making gallerist has successfully brought big names to the Bay Area—and Isaac Julien among them—those who live and work nearby have long been Silverman’s top priority. And when it came to seminal figures in the local scene, Clare Rojas was first and foremost in her mind.
Rojas’s current studio is situated just outside of San Francisco, in picturesque Marin County. It’s off-limits to visitors—even to McGee. Now in her mid-forties, Rojas prefers to keep her work and home lives separate. And in large part, this newfound independence is what has led to the most satisfactory stage in her career. Her inaugural show with Silverman, “” is comprised of recent works that elide abstraction and figuration, and feels like a breakthrough moment.
To be clear, during that time Rojas was in eight group exhibitions, including a two-person show at the Riverside Art Museum with McGee. But to Rojas, the sense of rejection was never merely quantitative; it was existential. “I had an epiphany that for a lot of institutions, I was a checkmark—a woman, a lower-class woman, a Latina woman.” In exchange, she continues, “I was supposed to talk about the oppression that I felt, the sexism.
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