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

 Official  Selection, Mint Film Festival, 2019

Billings, Montana

The Road, the Cave, the Lake, and the Sky at Night,  2012

Group Show, Junior League

 San Francisco, California, 2012

Every Hundred Miles (Across America with Robert Frank)
A 55 film by Kirk LeClaire and Finley Fryer.

  Winner of Best Documentary

Oregon Documentary Film Festival, 2022

“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


Oakland Museum of California’s satellite venue, Gallery 555

2008

Official selection SF Documentary Film Festival

Opening Credits.
Roxie Theater. San Fransisco, Ca
June 5th, 2022

Resounds: Art and Culture on the High Plains

Yellowstone Public Radio interview with Kirk LeClaire

Presentation/Interview with Annie Reiniger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG5vYecv6Us

In-Flux Recalibrating the Unknown
Museum Of Northern California, Chico  California
March 21- May 12, 2024

In Flux: Recalibrating the Unknown
Gallery view

They, Acrylic on paper, 60″ x 40″ 2022.
Kirk LeClaire, page  82 

https://issuu.com/sfartistsalumni/docs/influx_catalog?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3vIfcRBQ5jtO4xSJTXuILAAzb6z1u4GWLuFl5wpcSrrNrupLBxOWEmvMU_aem_CvVoUnZhHwd7obgXCJ7d_A

Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, 2024
May 31- July 5, 2024

Summer Means Fun,  Acrylic/Ink, 70″ x 120″ 2023

Renaissance Bros, Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California. 2024


Great America, Scratch Board, 80″ x 84″ 2008