For this new episode, none other than the truly unique and multi-faceted artist Clare Rojas agreed to chat with your host Dominique Nzeyimana.
Clare Rojas, whose artistic iterations first came into broad view in association with the ‘Mission School’ movement coming out of San Francisco, an association which culminated in the 'Beautiful Losers' documentary, exhibition tour and book, is internationally known as a highly accomplished and prolific visual artist with works acquired by the MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Brussels’ own MIMA.
Although internationally revered for possessing an uncanny gift for fairytale-like story-telling sometimes carrying a darker twist, which she also channels into songwriting, the artist proved early on incapable of sticking to one medium or style, which only made her output that more intriguing.
Calling in from the Bay Area and on the verge of opening a new solo exhibition at the esteemed Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, Clare talks to Dominique about snakes, writing and producing her fifth album ‘Grocery Store Flowers’, growing up in Colombus, Ohio as a Peruvian-American kid, attending high profile art schools as a scholarship-kid, The Cure, the quest for great gallerists, spending her working/waking hours between compulsive painting and obsessive songwriting and shedding her musical alter ego Peggy Honeywell.
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