Lily of the Valley 2

Lily of the Valley 2 is a four layer screenprint created to celebrate Lincoln Center’s 2026 Summer for the City festival. The image distills Clare Rojas's signature visual language into an intimate, lyrical composition. Rather than presenting flowers merely as a decorative motif, Rojas brings clarity and gravitas. The restraint of the artist’s hand allows delicate gestures of form, color, and space to sing, re-calling the ubiquitous, but often overlooked, rhythms that bind all living things to a larger shared life. Lily of the Valley 2 reflects Rojas’s ability to animate familiar imagery and explore the significance of each flowering bud within its ecological community.

Clare Rojas (b. 1976, Columbus, Ohio) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between figuration and abstraction, exploring both line, shape, color, symbolism, folklore, and narrative through an eco-feminist lens. She gained recognition for her paintings as part of San Francisco's “Mission School” art movement, which blended street culture, folk art, and other visual aesthetics often considered ‘low-brow.’ She received a BFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Solo exhibitions include: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Rose Art Museum, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hammer Museum; San Jose Museum of Art; Berkeley Art Museum; and the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. Rojas is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York.