“June Leaf at the Grey Art Museum — grace and rage in one thrilling mix”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Financial Times, September 17, 2025
A retrospective in New York is a sweeping examination of the artist’s creative and destructive sides
by Ariella Budick
June Leaf, who died last year at 94, refused to put herself in a box, although her art includes all sorts of confining containers. Leaf’s 75-year career trajectory only rarely crossed her peers’; her mythology was too personal, her humour too wry, her work too intense and magnificently repulsive to have found a comfortable place in a movement. She knitted together crassness with grace, wonder with vulgarity.