Alli Lemon, Morning Fall (Oakland), 2026, mixed media on panel, 48x36” I first encountered Hedda Sterne as a literal head above the rest in a 1951 Life magazine picture of the then labeled “Irascibles”, a group of artists who had drafted a protest targeting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a “conservative art establishment” repressing the then contemporary movement.  Hedda was the one and only female among the 15 artists pictured, a who’s-who of the modern art