June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart
The Addison Gallery of American Art and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College are co-organizing a major exhibition devoted to the artist June Leaf (1929鈥�2024), whose enigmatic, beguiling, and often irreverent work is both endlessly experimental and uncategorizable. Drawing from the artist鈥檚 vast archive along with loans from select private and institutional collections, June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart will consider the breadth of Leaf鈥檚 75-year career. Arranged thematically, it will be the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist鈥檚 work in more than three decades. Leaf鈥檚 enchanting and provocative sculptures, both kinetic and stationary, paintings, and works on paper will be intermingled and placed in dynamic conversations across media, revealing the artist鈥檚 sustained engagement with such motifs and themes as theater and performance, the human drama, dance, gender, motion, urban life, mythology, and interpersonal relationships.
Accompanied by a significant scholarly publication co-published by the co-organizers and Rizzoli Electa, the exhibition will debut at the Addison before traveling to the Grey Art Museum at New York University (September 9鈥揇ecember 13, 2025) and the Allen (January 27鈥揗ay 24, 2026).
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The Addison Gallery of American Art and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College are co-organizing a major exhibition devoted to the artist June Leaf (1929鈥�2024), whose enigmatic, beguiling, and often irreverent work is both endlessly experimental and uncategorizable. Drawing from the artist鈥檚 vast archive along with loans from select private and institutional collections, June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart will consider the breadth of Leaf鈥檚 75-year career. Arranged thematically, it will be the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist鈥檚 work in more than three decades. Leaf鈥檚 enchanting and provocative sculptures, both kinetic and stationary, paintings, and works on paper will be intermingled and placed in dynamic conversations across media, revealing the artist鈥檚 sustained engagement with such motifs and themes as theater and performance, the human drama, dance, gender, motion, urban life, mythology, and interpersonal relationships.
Accompanied by a significant scholarly publication co-published by the co-organizers and Rizzoli Electa, the exhibition will debut at the Addison before traveling to the Grey Art Museum at New York University (September 9鈥揇ecember 13, 2025) and the Allen (January 27鈥揗ay 24, 2026).
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