Edward Throp Gallery Announces Upcoming June Leaf Exhibition, 4/28 - 6/4

The Edward Thorp Gallery has announced an upcoming June Leaf exhibition, featuring a selection of works coinciding with her exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

This exhibition offers an informative survey of the work of June Leaf. Beginning her career in Chicago in the late 1940's, Leaf has lived in New York since the early 1960's.

Tracing her artistic evolution from 1949 to the present, starting with early drawings in which she made loosely figurative images based on fantastical or primitive themes, to the more recent works, which she is best known for. June has developed her radical engagement with narrative symbolism, revealing the essentials of the human condition, and through sculpture which revel in movement and all things mechanical.

The exhibition features approximately 30 works of paintings, drawings, and sculpture - reflecting the breadth, depth, and uniqueness of her vision. Some seldom shown drawings and sculptural works are also included, highlighting her range of materials and techniques. Both traditional and unconventional, this exhibition highlights the relentless investigation and emphasis on the hand-made that is at the core of this artist's vision. Leaf has stated, "I could have been a dancer, and I'm obsessed with little details. It's the body in space; it so happens that I like space, my figures are always in space, which means they can move. So when I draw I am dancing."

June Leaf is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Tel Aviv Museum of Art among others. A one-person exhibition of her work was held at the Tinguely Museum in Basel in 2004. She is represented by the Edward Thorp Gallery in New York.