Art Review
The Explosive Ecstasy of June Leaf
A retrospective leaves you feeling as though you have experienced a life as well as a body of work.
June Leaf
News
June Leaf, Artist of Allegory and Motion, Dies at 94
“I am a painter who had to have a tactile experience with the world,” Leaf told Hyperallergic in a 2016 interview.
Art
A Not Completely Lost History
The artists in Post prove that paintings and drawings can be captivating years after they were done, and that a timely style has a way of becoming uninteresting, even mummifying.
Test 2018 posts
Artists Update Bygone Myths
Even as Pollock was eliminating mythology in his work, younger artists born in the 1920s were finding ways to make it fresh.
Art
Another Hidden Chapter of ’70s Abstraction
The nine artists in 1970’s: 9 Women and Abstraction infuse their art with an unexpected warmth, humanity, and quirkiness that feel all the more invigorating when compared with the cerebral objectification prized by their male Minimalist counterparts.
Art
All The World’s Bigger than a Stage
There is the artist’s artist, and there is June Leaf.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: June Leaf
Walking through the green door into June Leaf’s old-school New York studio — a street-level space downtown — is a bit like entering a Willy Wonka world.
Opinion
Can We Do Something About This?
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the extraordinary June Leaf show before it closes at the Edward Thorp Gallery on February 4, 2012.
Art
A Tinkerer of the Highest Order
Before I talk about her exhibition, I want to share an anecdote about the artist. In 1997, June Leaf breezed into my studio at the Vermont Studio Center with a disarming smile from ear to ear. (It was the first time we met.) As she looked over my work, chatting and laughing, she spotted my skateboar