June Leaf : shooting from the heart /
"A revelatory look at the singular artist best known for her deeply personal and poetic, visceral, and often allegorical works. Published to coincide with a traveling exhibition that explores June Leaf's (1929-2024) uncategorizable and endlessly experimental oeuvre, this volume features ne...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY : Andover, MA : Oberlin, OH :
Rizzoli Electa ; Addison ; Allen Memorial Art Museum,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "A revelatory look at the singular artist best known for her deeply personal and poetic, visceral, and often allegorical works. Published to coincide with a traveling exhibition that explores June Leaf's (1929-2024) uncategorizable and endlessly experimental oeuvre, this volume features new scholarship alongside reflections by the artist's peers, Joan Jonas and Kara Walker. Drawing from numerous museum and private collections as well as Leaf's vast personal archive, it is the most exhaustive survey of her career to date. Leaf's enchanting and provocative kinetic sculptures, assemblages, paintings, and drawings are intermingled and juxtaposed, revealing the artist's sustained engagement with such motifs and themes as theater and performance, dance, gender, motion, urban life, mythology, and interpersonal relationships. She skillfully blends mediums and materials in unconventional and intuitive ways, resulting in compositions where playful and combative figures and contraptions emerge from inventive combinations of brass, copper, tin, found metal rods and blades, wood, and paint" -- |
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| Item Description: | "Published on the occasion of the exhibition June Lead: Shooting from the Heart co-organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA and the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH" -- title page verso. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, March 15-July 31, 2025; Grey Art Museum, New York University, New York, September 9-December 13, 2025; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, January 27-May 24, 2026. |
| Physical Description: | 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780847843534 084784353X |