June Leaf: Early Prints, Drawings, and Sculptures illuminates the early career of one of Chicago's most independent artistic figures through lithographs, drawings, and wall-mounted oil on board sculptures. The exhibition centers on a series of 1958 lithographs commissioned by dealer Allan Frumkin during Leaf's Fulbright Fellowship in Paris — renderings of trees outside the lithography studio, including working proofs that reveal her experimental process. Sculptures from her first solo exhibition and landmark 1968 Street Dreams show complete the presentation. As Lucy Lippard observed, Leaf's preserve is "the commonplace extraordinary, joyful perversions, and unlikely loves."
