| Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Clare Rojas.In “Piecemeal”, her third exhibition at the gallery, Rojas will present a group of paintings on stretched linen. Rojas has painted precise and colorful compositions using the traditional format of a free-hanging painting. Stepping back in her perspective from the tight, detailed narrations of previous bodies of work, the artist has taken a hard-edged view of interior spaces and the abstract shapes produced by architecture and shadow.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.. An accomplished musician and performer, she has several books and music CD’s published.
There’s a bunch of stuff I am trying to remember to do, like David Jacobs-Strain at Hotel Utah, Essence at California Academy of Science, Beth Custer at Throckmorton and our own event at Caffe Centro, for Rob Syrett’s soft art opening, maybe with a special guest spinning on the little self-powered Crosley Terry got me for Festivus.
Meanwhile here is Clare Rojas pka Peggy Honeywell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KlEIH8-_Rc&feature=related
edit to add, January 17, 2012: on my way to the opening I passed by the flower kiosk near Union Square and asked the clerk if she knew Emily Palen, who busked there. I asked her to recommend a friendship rose, and walked away with a lavender rose, if not the purple rose of cairo. When I got to the Gallery, I was getting to know Paule’s new clerk Jessica from Manchester and Paule herself walked by. She inquired about the rose and I said it was for the artist (Rojas, there was additional work by Annabeth Rosen, I had not realized). Anglim encouraged me to proceed with my plan but when I got to the artist, I panicked and asked “Which one of you is Clare?”. She accepted the gesture not too awkwardly. Later I also visited with her partner Barry McGee.
Today I think it was Vanessa Blakely from Romer Young who said, apropos of Clare, that there is also a big piece of hers at the airport. Vanessa, who was home with her mother in law and son (Bhodi), gave me a brochure from a recent show in Singapore which I ended up getting signed by two of her neighbors, the fellow visual artists Zhanna and Sarima. I later visited Vanessa’s former employer, met her replacement Kate Meacham, and also had a brief encounter with their artist Carol Selter. I told Carol I shared a birthday with her fellow San Jose State luminary Tony May. Somewhere in all this, I also left a voice mail with a gossip columnist identifying the toddlers at the soiree as the brood of my Gunn High classmate Peter Kirkeby. I also ran into artist manager extraordinaire Jordan Kurland who said he owned a Rojas (and someone later pointed out that Noise Pop, Jordan’s baby, commissioned CR for a poster recent past year — I’ve been churning the experience of the opening in various ways in the ensuing days. |
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
this is a weird segue but at 12:17 tonight or this a.m. was it just me or did Michele Bachman appear on SNL and sings little bits of Montell Jordan “This is How We Do it” and the outtro of Michael Jackson “Starting Something” the “mama say mam saw” thing??
that for me puts here in the Segolene Royal class of would-I-vote-for-her-just- because-…. class.
fact-checking my own possible post I found that Roots on Fallon played a Fishbone song called “that lying ass bitch” or something when she entered…