ARTinvestment.RU tells of an interesting exhibition of the artist from San Francisco

at the Museum of Applied Arts and Folk Art in San Francisco is an interesting exhibition of local artist Clare Rojas (Clare Rojas). Critics include her to join "School Mission», referred to as both the name of one of the bohemian district of the city. Works by these artists made themselves felt in the 1990's, initially seen as opposing the "official" museum and the gallery art: "beautiful losers" (the title of their film, released in 2008) were inspired by the works of giants is not modernism and conceptualism, and folk-art, comics and graffiti. The most famous members of this association - Barry McGee (Barry McGee) and Margaret Kilgallen (Margaret Kilgallen) - famous as the street artists. Today representatives of school Mission, as well as the legends of street art (Banksy, Shepard Fairy, etc.), outsiders do not consider - they are already firmly entrenched in the mainstream, their work shown at major museum exhibitions and international biennials. Much of this success contributed an enterprising gallery owner Jeffrey Dyche (Jeffrey Deitch), who made his name on the show shots, spectacular art, to which one wants to apply the old man's epithet of "youth". To ensure that street art and "losers" came into the world of "serious" art, a positive attitude is not everything: creativity McGhee and his comrades as too decorative and commercial (some of these authors actually fulfill orders for big corporations).

paintings Clare Rojas, with their bright geometric patterns and pretty naive manner of performance is very decorative, but in the camp of fine art helps them remain subjects. It is impossible not to admire this artist's imagination: in her work - intricate hybrids of flowers and heavenly bodies, people and animals, humans and plants ... No stranger to her creativity and playful cruelty: in one work, bearded little man fastened to a sharp point of one of the abstract elements in the other three characters are sent into the mouth of a huge grandmother. It should be noted that the victims of a scatty Rojas mainly serve men and women stand as symbols of wisdom and spiritual strength. No wonder all of her heroine - a mature age. Feminist criticism is also reflected in the fact that men in her paintings are often bare. This reverses the traditional notions about who is in the genre of "nu" is the subject, and who - the object.

«Imaginarium" Clare Rojas could be fully assessed at the recent San Francisco Fair Fine Art Fair. The museum is a little surreal phantasmagoria - the artist chose to exhibit a more quiet songs, often "home" theme (she calls herself his or her work "home abstractions"). However, the calm they only mean ... The main work in the center of which are female figures create an impression of calm before the storm - the heroine seemed ready for something. Rojas often emphasizes their closeness to nature: for example, in her children's book "Blue deer and red fox the other main characters is a gray-haired woman. Animals as companions or lovers of women often appear in paintings artists - the classics of surrealism; found this motif in the work of some of our contemporaries - Vangechi Mutu (Wangechi Mutu), Audrey Kawasaki (Audrey Kawasaki), Rita Ackermann (Rita Ackermann), etc. Each artist Of course, treats it in his own way.

In addition to paintings, Clare Rojas, creates video, and writes songs under the name Peggy Honeywell. The exhibition can also see her witty video work on "autsayderstvu. In one of them the artist in an old red dress, singing a song on the background of merry men. In another, she paint the pictures in the women's magazine, turning the "ideal" models in the grotesque characters.

Clare Rojas exhibition will last until August 22.

material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Source: mocfa.org , artforum.com , artinvestment.ru