COMING SOON!
In just two weeks we will open June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart! Four years in the making, the exhibition will be the most comprehensive survey of Leaf’s (1929–2024) art in more than three decades. With more than 150 works placed in dynamic conversations across media and time, this exhibition reveals the artist’s sustained engagement with such motifs and themes as movement, theater, gender, and the human condition.
Complementing June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart are several exhibitions that highlight the depth and breadth of the Addison’s collection. Comprised of works of various time periods, artists, media, and subject matter, these exhibitions explore the American experience via a range of themes from American realism, early 20th century modernism, and post-war abstraction to performance, identity, and storytelling.
The Addison is free and open to the public, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am–5:00 pm, and Sunday, 1:00–5:00 pm.
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June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart (March 15–July 31) includes over 150 sculptures, paintings, and works on paper to explore decades of the artist’s inventive blending of media and materials in unconventional and intuitive ways. Synthesizing outside influences with distinctive motifs and symbols drawn from her own rich self-mythology, Leaf’s art allows for new ways to see the world and ourselves.
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Dynamic Duos features photography from the museum's collection and considers the dynamics of two beings sharing space, whether they be romantic partners, family members, close friends, strangers, or interspecies companions. Each image invites viewers to delve into the stories behind the expressions, prompting questions about the context of the encounter, and the emotions at play.
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Playing to Our Strengths: Highlights from the Permanent Collection presents exceptional works from the collection in three sections: late-19th-century masterworks by Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer; modernist paintings created during the interwar years; and large-format postwar abstract paintings that distill the vocabulary of painting to its very essence.
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On and Off Stage: Performance and Persona invites viewers to reflect on the roles we perform in everyday life, in both public settings and on private stages in which individuals explore new identities and modes of expression, as well as challenge stereotypes and societal norms using costume and roleplay to experiment with shifting personas.
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The Art of Opposition, curated by Phillips Academy students enrolled in Art 400 Visual Culture: Curating the Addison Collection, explores how creativity can become an act of defiance, questioning power structures and reshaping narratives. The exhibition is on view in the Museum Learning Center; as an active teaching space, it may sometimes be occupied by a class.
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TONIGHT!
Art 400 Exhibition Opening
Tuesday, March 4, 5:00–6:30pm
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Join us in celebrating the opening of The Art of Opposition, an exhibition curated by Phillips Academy students enrolled in Art 400 Visual Culture: Curating the Addison Collection. Enjoy great company, light refreshments, and a hands-on art activity led by students! Free and open to the public.
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Study Hours at the Addison
Wednesday, March 5, 5:00–8:00 pm
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Looking for a quiet place to get work done? Tables will be set up for studying in the galleries, and there will be a coffee cart and snacks if you need an energy boost.
All are welcome, no reservations required. Please note that the second-floor galleries will be closed at this time.
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SPRING OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, March 29, 4:00–6:00 pm
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Join us in celebrating the new exhibitions! Enjoy great company, light refreshments, and the best of American art. Free and open to the public.
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PUPPET SHOW AND WORKSHOP with CactusHead Puppeteers
Saturday, April 5
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Puppet Show: 10:00–10:45 pm
Workshop: 11:30 am–12:15 pm
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Come one, come all, to a circus like no other! Encounter magnificent creatures from the wilds of your imagination as their quirky human caretaker tries to teach them new tricks. Kids can lend a hand to Eustace the Unicycling Unimonster, make friends with a Fiery Fanged Worm, cheer for Agnes the many-legged Acropod, and more.
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The Puppet Show is free, no registration required. Recommended for ages 3+. Children must be accompanied by an adult caregiver. This program will take place in Kemper Auditorium, adjacent to the Addison Gallery.
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The Puppet Making Workshop is also free and will begin at 11:30 am. The program is designed for ages 5+. CactusHead Puppeteers will share examples of rod puppets and explore how they move. Then each participant can create their own character using provided materials, and learn the basics of rod puppet performance, focusing on how to use movement to convey emotion. Space is limited and registration is required. Children must be accompanied by an adult caregiver. This program will take place at the Addison Gallery.
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More programs to be announced soon—please check our online Calendar of Events for the latest information!
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Images: June Leaf, Figure With a Horn (detail), 2023. Tin, wire, magnets, and mixed media, 44 x 51 x 13 1/2 inches. Collection Estate of June Leaf, Courtesy Hyphen, New York; June Leaf, Arcade Women, 1956. Oil on canvas, 69 11/16 x 98 5/8 inches. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Allan Frumkin, 1978.42. © The Estate of June Leaf. Photo: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago / Art Resource, NY; June Leaf, Two Women on a Jack (detail), 2001. Metal, tin, wire, wood, ratcheting jack components, and crowbar, 94 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Elyse and Lawrence Benenson Collection. Courtesy of the Estate of June Leaf and Ortuzar, New York. © The Estate of June Leaf. Photo: Dario Lasagni; June Leaf, Threading the Story Through the Eye of a Needle (detail), c. 1974. Acrylic, ink, and graphite on paper, 18 3/4 x 24 inches. Collection Estate of June Leaf. Courtesy Hyphen, New York. © The Estate of June Leaf. Photo: Alice Attie; Dawoud Bey, The Birmingham Project: Taylor Falls and Deborah Hackworth, 2012. Archival pigment prints mounted to dibond, 41 1/8 x 66 1/4 inches. Collection of Andrew Z. Scharf (PA 2002), 3.2021.1.1a,b; Winslow Homer, Kissing the Moon, 1904. Oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 40 inches. Bequest of Candace C. Stimson, 1946.19; Sally Mann, New Mothers, 1989. Gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches. Museum purchase, 1990.58; Lalla Essaydi, Les Femmes du Maroc: La Grande Odalisque, 2008. Chromogenic print mounted to aluminum with UV protective laminate, 30 x 40 inches. Purchased as the gift of Katherine D. and Stephen C. Sherrill (PA 1971, and P 2005, 2007, 2010), 2018.51; Stephen Shames, Bobby Seale at Free Huey Rally in DeFremery Park in Oakland, 1968. Vintage gelatin silver print, 6 x 8 1/2 inches. Purchased as the gift of Katherine D. and Stephen C. Sherrill (PA 1971, and P 2005, 2007, 2010), 2007.95; photo by Gil Talbot; June Leaf, Sleeping Man, 2020. Metal, wire, acrylic on fabric, and wood, 17 1/2 x 19 1/8 x 11 3/8 inches. Collection Estate of June Leaf. Courtesy Hyphen, New York. © The Estate of June Leaf. Photo: Alan Wiener; photo courtesy of CactusHead Puppeteers.
Exhibition and program credits:
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart is co-organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Major support for this project has been provided by the Estate of June Leaf with additional funding provided by The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation (formerly the Andrea Frank Foundation), John and Sally Van Doren (PA 1980), and the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s John H. ’29 and Marjorie Fox ’29 Wieland Current-Use AMAM Support Fund.
Generous support for Dynamic Duos has been provided by the Francesca S. Woodman Exhibitions Fund.
Playing to Our Strengths: Highlights from the Permanent Collection is generously supported by the Bernard and Louise Palitz Exhibitions Fund.
Generous support for On and Off Stage: Performance and Persona has been provided by the Winton Family Exhibition Fund.
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