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“June Leaf Made Art Like a Mad Scientist, a Dancer, an Aviator and an Archer”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
New York Times, November 26, 2025

Endlessly energetic, the sculptor, who died last year, was often overshadowed by her famous husband, Robert Frank — but the Grey Art Museum brings her to the foreground. by Jillian Steinhauer June Leaf’s artworks are animated by a force that’s easy to see but difficult to describe. They feel thrillingly dynamic — and not just […]

“June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Science Survey, November 17, 2025

by Abigael Sidi As you walk into the June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart exhibit at NYU’s Grey Art Museum, currently on view through Saturday, December 13th, 2025, you are confronted with works of art made from paint, charcoal, pencil, wire, photographs, and just about every other art medium imaginable. Yet, at the center of all of these […]

“Revisiting Robert Rauschenberg’s Creative Rebellion on His 100th Birthday”
Handle with Care: Robert Rauschenberg’s Ecological Conscience Exhibition Feature
1st Dibs Introspective, November 8, 2026

A planet-wide celebration feels fitting for an artist who saw connections everywhere: between paint and photography, art and life, self and surroundings. by Trent Morse The fame came through a deletion. In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg obtained a drawing from Willem de Kooning. And he erased it. At first glance, this seemed like an art-world stunt, a bratty thumbing […]

“June Leaf at NYU’s Grey Art Museum”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart
Entropvisions, November 4, 2025

by Alice Zinnes The current June Leaf exhibition at NYU’s Grey Art Museum, up through Dec. 13, is a must-see show. With 150 pieces, representing works on paper, sculptures, paintings, collages and constructions throughout her 75-year career, we get a glimpse of the infinite creativity that marks this artist’s work. Continue Reading

“June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Feature
Brooklyn Rail, October 29, 2025

by Joe Fyfe When I first moved to New York after art school in 1977 I was often asked who my favorite artists were. I said, “June Leaf and Lee Lozano.” I often heard “Lee Lozano is living on the street” in response. The collectors Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick in Philadelphia had a lot […]

“June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Brooklyn Rail, October 15, 2025

by Andrew L. Shea “The secret is not drawing but DANCE.” So declares a work in charcoal on paper by June Leaf included in her current retrospective at NYU’s Grey Art Museum. Titled Drawings in Movement (2020), the piece depicts a circular stage where tiny, naked figures alternately recline, loll, lurch, and sprawl. Though Leaf (1929–2024) made […]

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“Berthe Weill and the Parisian Avant-Garde with Curators Lynn Gumpert and Sophie Eloy”
The American Library in Paris, October 15, 2025

“Berthe Weill and the Parisian Avant-Garde with Curators Lynn Gumpert and Sophie Eloy” Organized by: The American Library in Paris Original date: October 15, 2025 Curators Lynn Gumpert and Sophie Eloy discuss the Musée de l’Orangerie’s current exhibition “Berthe Weill. Galeriste d’avant-garde,” which traces the story of one of the first female art dealers in Paris. A pioneering […]

“June Leaf’s New York survey captures a life in motion”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Wallpaper, October 7, 2025

by Osman Can Yerebakan Many artists have been fascinated by movement, from da Vinci to the Futurists and Martha Graham. Physics’ objectivity aside, motion resonates with individuality – an urge for introspection on the body’s procession as well as its transcendental limits. For American artist June Leaf, who passed away in 2024 aged 94, movement […]

“Five New York City Art Shows That We Love Right Now”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Feature
Hyperallergic, October 7, 2025

From George Morrison to June Leaf, the city is alive with wonderful abstract and carnivalesque art. Abstraction is in good form in art institutions at the moment. The Met’s current retrospective of midcentury Ojibwe artist George Morrison brings out a side of Abstract Expressionism that’s rarely discussed in art histories, and well worth seeing. Though […]

“The Explosive Ecstasy of June Leaf”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Hyperallergic, October 7, 2025

by Faye Hirsch “Nobody knew what was in my mind anyway, least of all myself,” late artist June Leaf said in a 2010 interview about her creative awakening as a child in Chicago. “So little did [my mother] realize that what was being developed in her house was a volcano.” No wonder that, in many […]