June Leaf

Allison Kemmerer is the Mary Stripp and R. Crosby Kemper Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art. Gordon Wilkins is the Robert M. Walker Curator of American Art at the Addison Gallery of American Art. Sam Adams is the Ellen Johnson ’33 Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College.

"These are works designed, at the very least, to spur a kinetic response inside the viewer’s head — that outside-in and inside-out relationship that was key to her life’s work." — Hyperallergic"One of the strengths of “Shooting From the Heart” is that it’s arranged thematically, which allows the viewer to see the continuities in Leaf’s work, despite her disparate styles and periods. In another smart choice, the curators, Allison Kemmerer, Gordon Wilkins and Sam Adams, make liberal use of Leaf’s own poetic words on the wall labels. “First of all, you don’t invent anything, you just discover the truth,” one text reads. “And the truth is always there.'" — The New York Times