until Sunday July 17 2016

Whitney Museum of American Art
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THOUGHT IS INFINITE

For nearly seven decades, June Leaf (b. 1929) has created a deeply imagined world of unreal creatures and settings that metaphorically probe the human condition. She has worked in a long tradition of visionary art, one especially prominent in the work of the Symbolists of the nineteenth century and which has continued more recently with Surrealism and beyond. .

This presentation focuses primarily on Leaf’s works on paper and spans her entire career. The dense installation is meant to evoke the atmosphere of her studios, in which she works seamlessly in multiple mediums. Indeed, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and collage effortlessly coalesce as the artist creates and develops her imagery from one surface or object to the next. Her technique reflects her interest in transformation and metamorphosis, with many of her pieces seeming to capture a moment seized out of a state of flux.