by Abigael Sidi Featured on The Easel | Art Journalism Originally published on The Science Survey
by Erin Zhang The city has everything from video game-rendered social commentary to larger-than-life nudes on display in its museums and private foundations this month. Continue Reading
by Barry Schwabsky I’ve known June Leaf’s work for 40 years, but that makes me a bit of a Johnny-come-lately to an artist who had already been at work for three decades. So for me, getting my first-ever in-person view of many pieces from the 1950s through the ’70s was one of the great pleasures […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]