Untitled (Four-legged figure with three arms)

2006 - Painting (Painting)

Clare Rojas

location: San Francisco, California
year born: 1976
gender: female
nationality: American
home town: Columbus, Ohio

Rojas’s two pieces in the Kadist Collection— Untitled (four-legged…) and Untitled (Bird’s Eyes) —are representative of her pictorial style which uses bold colorful blocks of paint and female and animal characters. While Untitled (Bird’s Eyes) does not depict any actual women, it nevertheless alludes to gender roles and the power of the female gaze. Apparently playful, this scene of two animals has an ominous quality: A bird and a hedgehog confront at each other and the bird appears to be poking, even eating the hedgehog’s eye.


Trained in printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, Clare Rojas is a painter inspired in equal parts by cartoons, quilting, street, and folk art. Rojas’s works accompany other Bay Area “Mission School” artists featured in the collection such as Barry McGee and Alicia McCarthy. While her signature gouache paintings explore the intersection between fairy tales and feminist ideology, their stylized human and animal characters often tell stories imbued with dark humor.


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Untitled
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Alicia McCarthy

2010

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Hank Willis Thomas

2014

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Yto Barrada

2007

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Untitled (Bird and Eyes)
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Clare Rojas

2008

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Untitled
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Barry McGee

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Untitled (The way in is the way out)
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Alicia McCarthy

2010

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Untitled (Painting of a Man Leaving in Boat)
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Chris Johanson

2010

Chris Johanson’s Untitled (Painting of a Man Leaving in Boat) (2010) pictures a canoe drifting toward an off-kilter horizon line, which demarcates the cobalt sea from the cerulean sky...

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The Feminist School of Painting: Landscape with Martha Kenney
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Sigrid Nunez by Madeleine Connors
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Undocumented Intervention
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Julio Cesar Morales

2006

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Untitled
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Jedediah Caesar

2009

For Untitled, Caesar encased recycled objects such as scraps of plywood, paper or cloth in resin and then cut and reassembled the pieces into abstract forms...

Memory Mistake of the Eldridge Cleaver Pants
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Paul McCarthy

2008

Memory Mistake of the Eldridge Cleaver Pants was created for the show Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life Part 1 , held at California College of the Arts’s Wattis Institute in 2008 and curated by McCarthy himself...

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Untitled (Bird and Eyes)
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2008

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Untitled (Set of Six Drawings)
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Adrian Villar Rojas

2012

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Untitled
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Anna-Bella Papp

2013

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Tina Modotti

1930

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