It was nice to spend Mother’s Day week in Venice I should have taken more photos of all the drawings I saw I really loved all the offsite presentations I think they may have been my favorite national pavilions are really weird but I love art and loved to see how people played with material and scale the things people can do with paper!!! also the Indian presentation at arsenale was so good and the paintings in Peggy’s collection wowow
I had a conversation with one of my favorite painters about painting ✨ thank you @topicalcream - link in bio
All top teeth knocked out at once is on view until May 16 at @nicodimgallery LA
two drawings for @glassellschool@mfahouston benefit gala happening tomorrow - available through silent auction
A valley, charcoal and oil pastel on paper, 2026
Two birds, charcoal and oil pastel on paper, 2026
concrete wall behind grandmas papaya tree and the oil marks on the floor of the garage, 2026
All top teeth knocked out at once has been extended till May 16 at @nicodimgallery LA
June Canedo de Souza: All top teeth knocked out at once
@nicodimgallery in LA
March 28 — May 9, 2026
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“In the painting rodeo heart-teeth clenched- wide mouth-looking bush, I see two bundled fists crossed at the wrists above the crown of a man’s head, all outlined with sweeping marks of deep brown. It is as if I am floating above a man extending his looming hands. I can see both the inside creases of palms and outside folds of fingers closed in a grip — what a clenched fist might look like from the inside. I ask myself if they really are fists or open palms. An open palm and a closed fist? A cloudy diffusion of green coalesces with murky atmospheric black and peeks of chalky orange and yellow. To me, these are the hues of a fresh bruise. Only closer looking and minutes in, reveals light drawings atop the right extremity resembling the skin of strawberries or the center hearts of a flower. I remember beating hearts are often said to be the size of fists.” — Barbara Calderón
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“rodeo heart-teeth clenched- wide mouth-looking bush” was made while June was in residence at MacDowell in early fall of 2025.
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