Art and Film
Kirk LeClaire Artist
Kirk LeClaire is a multi-disciplinary Artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area
“One week he’s in polka-dots, the next week he’s in stripes”
Ray Davis, “Dedicated Follower of Fashion”
About
Kirk is a practicing artist active in the local community, since receiving his master’s degree from SFAI in the early 80’s, he had his first one man show in NYC the following year and in the decades following exhibited his work in many alternative spaces, civic venues and established art galleries. He garnered reviews of his work in many of the Bay Area’s major newspapers. Kirk has had a one man show of his work at the Oakland Museums Gallery 555 at Civic Center in 2008, and at One Post Street with the Brian Gross Gallery in San Francisco that same year. Numerous group shows in recent years include the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, The Walnut Creek Regional Center for the Arts, the Cinema Place Gallery in Hayward and most recently in “Paint and Other Means of Personal Expression” at the Forthrite Gallery in Oakland in 2014.
In addition, Mr. LeClaire is a practicing filmmaker and participated The Big sky Documentary Film Festival, 2019,The Mint Film Festival, 2019 and most recently The Oregon Documentary Film Festival in 2022. He continues making films to this day.
Kirk has taught in the Art Department of California State University East Bay for the past 25 years.
“…so good I can’t take it”
1980’s Punk, Postpunk, New Wave, and Hardcore from Montana.
Directed and edited by Kirk LeClaire
The Road, the Cave, the Lake, and the Sky at Night, 2012
Every Hundred Miles (Across America with Robert Frank)
A 55 film by Kirk LeClaire and Finley Fryer.
“His high-contrast mélange of figuration and abstraction — ambiguously metamorphic flowers, pen nibs, stripes, clouds, acanthus leaves, volutes, all-seeing eyes, wings, ironwork, trees, and buildings — is both decorative (in the best sense) and visually and thematically complex, like the large-scale public works of Léger and Lichtenstein. They create a virtual pictorial space that engages the imagination — instead of assaulting the senses with cascades of machined trumpery.’
Dewitt Cheng East Bay Express
Official selection SF Documentary Film Festival
Opening Credits.
Roxie Theater. San Fransisco, Ca
June 5th, 2022
September 17, 2022
Northern California Museum Of Art . 3/21/2024- 5/12/2024
Catalog here: https://issuu.com/sfartistsalumni/docs/influx_catalog
