Mario Naves reviews the exhibitions June Leaf: Recent Work at Edward Thorp Gallery (through January 28, 2012) and Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect at Babcock Galleries (through January 27, 2012.

Both exhibitions, Naves notes, celebrate "intractable individualism – the hard-won visions of sundry loners, originals and eccentrics [that] speak more to the country's can-do spirit than any spit-and-polished category you'd care to name."