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June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Whitehot Magazine, September 11, 2025
by Josh Niland
This summer in Andover, Massachusetts, I had the chance to take in the enthralling June Leaf retrospective June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart at the Addison Gallery of American Art on the campus of Phillips Academy (about one hour north of Boston).
The premier iteration of the show, which will next travel to NYU’s Grey Art Museum and later the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College after it closed July 31st, moves between a range of media—staging freewheeling paintings, fervid kinetic sculptures, letters, collage, and frenzied works on paper against the jaded backdrop of our current to gracefully inform academic audiences while incorporating more than 150 works documenting her restless seven-decade peregrination in art history.