About

Françoise LeClerc is an artist working in ceramics, cyanotype and found photographs. Often depicting horses, her work evokes themes of emergence and transformation, sensitivity and trust. Expressing both boldness and vulnerability, her work can be simultaneously vigorous and quiet.

The child of immigrants from Taiwan and France, LeClerc was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the rise of Silicon Valley. Perhaps ironically, she is fascinated with the past. Her work examines personal histories that are simultaneously familiar and foreign, intimate and imagined; stories that ground us, and are yet just out of reach. They suggest a searching; a desire to understand experiences and histories that were not adequately explained.

After graduating summa cum laude from UCLA, LeClerc began her career in the motion picture literary department of CAA, the entertainment industry’s foremost talent agency, where she represented screenwriters, novelists, journalists and directors. When her mother had a stroke, she had to return to the Bay Area, where she transitioned to historic home restoration, and eventually found her way to sculpture, and later, 2D work. She lives on a two-acre farm in Sonoma County where she raises sheep, chickens, flowers and fruit.  

Instagram: @francoise_leclerc_art