Clare Rojas – Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Blue Deer

Posted by Cindy on January 6, 2014

Jan 062014

SFO
International Terminal
Gate G Level 3
Post TSA

Blue Deer 2006-2007
Oil and Pigmented Ink with Gesso Ground on Wood Panels
Clare Rojas

The plaque on this piece reads: Inspired by American folk art, quilting and storytelling, Clare Rojas creates dreamlike images executed in tightly drawn crystalline shapes. Rojas intends to bring a sense of warmth and comfort to the viewer and she often changes the exhibition space to better fit the feeling of her work. Here she transforms the gate room wall into space more reminiscent of home. “Blue Deer” is based on a children’s book Rojas wrote and illustrated. Blue Deer and Red Fox.

Brightening Mid-Market

Posted by Cindy on March 12, 2001

Mar 122001

982 Market Street
The side of the Warfield Theater
Mid-Market

This piece, finished in May of this year (2014), was done by Clare Rojas (who has been in this website before), along with the 509 Cultural Center.

The mural was sponsored, to the tune of $40,000, by the Walter and Elise Hass Fund.

Thanks to the Creative Work Fund, I was able to find this photo of the work in progress, as well as an explanation of the piece.

“The proposed mural will be a natural outgrowth of Rojas’s earlier work, which was overtly feminist and employed surreal or unreal figures in a narrative intent. She plans to re-integrate symbolic figures within a large-scale abstract composition for the mural.”

Due to the height of the building, the mural is easy to spot from many parts of town. Due to the historic nature of the Warfield, the mural will only be up for one year.