June Leaf

“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
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 […]

“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 […]

“15 Women-Led Art Shows to See in New York This Fall”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Feature
Vogue, September 22, 2025

By Fiorella Valdesolo While New York Fashion Week has come to an end, for anyone whose eyes are still starved for beauty, there is a formidable list of ongoing women-led art happenings to fill your calendar. Here, we recommend some long, leisurely art strolling in lieu of that perpetual scrolling. Continue Reading

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Conversation about June Leaf Exhibition: Sam Adams, Allison Kemmerer, Gordon Wilkins and Barry Schwabsky
NSE #1254, Brooklyn Rail, September 19, 2025

Curators Sam Adams, Allison Kemmerer, and Gordon Wilkins join Rail Editor-at-Large Barry Schwabsky for a conversation on Zoom June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Recorded on Friday, September 19, 2025

“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 […]

“June Leaf: Rage Against the Machine”
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 […]

PRESS RELEASE<br>June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart<br>Grey Art Museum, NYU, September 9, 2025

PRESS RELEASE
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart
Grey Art Museum, NYU, September 9, 2025

NYU’s Grey Art Museum Presents June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart September 9–December 13, 2025 The exhibition features more than 120 drawings, paintings, and sculptures representing 75 years of work by the idiosyncratic artist Press Contact Sofeia Eddy | sofeia.eddy@nyu.edu | 212-998-6782 [Download Press Release] [Download Image Sheet] (NEW YORK, NY, July 16, 2025)—NYU’s Grey […]