June Leaf "Recent Works"
Edward Thorp Gallery
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Leaf’s unique position is reflected in her prodigious output of paintings, drawings and sculpture, which capture the private experience of contemplation and are founded in the artist’s assertion of the integrity of the handmade. With a balance of casual and assured gestures, Leaf is able to conjure works that are poetic and elusive. Her disturbing scenarios evoke an emotional edge and poignancy that never veers into nostalgia and obviousness.
Whether welded, drawn, or painted all of Leaf’s works are stages filled with dramatic action. Her sculptures are both strikingly physical and uncannily subtle. Leaf approaches these as though they were drawings, creating them out of animated gestures and producing images that are both literal and metaphorical. Her paintings, which often depict the interior and exterior environs of her Nova Scotia studio, are marked by ethereal beauty and startling directness. They are delivered with an authoritative spontaneity and with complex combinations of affection and ferocity. Although tough and uncompromising, there is something unusually vulnerable in Leaf’s willingness to make art that is brazenly candid and unaffected.
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Schedule
from December 15, 2011 to February 04, 2012
Opening Reception on 2011-12-15 from 18:00 to 20:00