June Leaf "Recent Work"

Edward Thorp Gallery

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June Leaf will show recent work in various media and scales. For these new works Leaf has sourced images from Da Vinci’s Last Supper along with the more familiar themes of the ethereal landscapes of Mabou, Nova Scotia as well as skeletal figures in transformative limbo that dramatically illustrate active rooms. Often these images become intermixed as do the techniques of painting and mechanized sculptures. In the Last Supper tableaus, whole and fragmentary images of sacred nourishment are simultaneously tender and burlesque. Leaf treats sculpture as if it were drawing, feeding off the power of the animated gesture. A tabletop sculpture of a head, for example, becomes monumental through the fluid, atavistic manipulation of thick iron rods. In a strange contradictory fashion Leaf aspires to and achieves a transcendent calm through frantic means: a calm landscape of land, sea and sky reveals itself under scrutiny to be the accumulation of layers of searching and reinterpretation.

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.

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from May 14, 2010 to June 19, 2010

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June Leaf

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