When people ask T.C. Leflore what it is that he does, his frequent reply is “I wander aimlessly”, that being, he says, the nearest truth. 

   

   The reality of what we call the natural world, and our connection to it, or lack of connection, form the base of awareness that compels T.C. Leflore in his art. Reared in the insular backwoods, and bound to nature by a culture influenced by "hill people" and the Choctaw, Leflore is compelled by the natural world to be aware of its position as primal source of form and the experience of form. His earlier works explored form with realistic representation of natural objects in unreal space. More recent paintings explore a confounding quest centered on the wonder of the genesis of form, from thought to form, and back again.

  
  Tranum Crowder Leflore was born in Mississippi. He studied art in New York City and Paris. In addition to two dimensional art, he has worked significantly in sculpture as well as conceptual and performance art. Much of his work was destroyed in a fire in 2015, with few images of those works remaining.

 

Education:

Bachelor of Fine Art, from
Parsons School of Design, New York, N.Y.

License Artistique, from
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris