Exposed: Shows by June Leaf and Joan Semmel

artcritical - Art Review - May 19, 2015

June Leaf, Pages #1, 2013-2014. Acrylic and chalk on canvas, 30 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Edward Thorp Gallery.

The human body is incumbent in the work of artists June Leaf and Joan Semmel, who are subjects of recent shows in Chelsea at Edward Thorp Gallery and Alexander Gray Associates, respectively. Walking into “June Leaf: Recent Works” feels like stumbling upon a secret. Leaf, who has been practicing since the late 1940s, has frequently likened her working process to dance, and something of her physical body indeed feels present in the objects and paintings.

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