At Last a Thousand

June Wayne
Tapestry
86¼ X 108½ in.
Woven by Pierre Daquin at Atelier de Saint Cyr.
Cotton, wool, and wool with additional fibers.
EA 1, two examples extant, 1972.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2014; David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, 2013; Art Institute of Chicago, 2010; Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, 2005; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Pomona College, 1992; Fresno Art Museum, 1988; Security Pacific Bank, 1980; Cypress College Arts Gallery, 1977; Die Internationale Kunstmesse, 1976; Van Doren Gallery, 1976; Artemisia Gallery, 1975; Galerie La Demeure, 1974; Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1974; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1973.

COMMENTS
Here Wayne reprises in the unlikely medium of tapestry the atomic explosions seen in the lithographs of 1965.

“This tapestry is based on the quartet of Wayne’s lithographs published by tamarind on 1965 in honor of its thousandth edition. ‘I feel that when I have made an image, it’s mine. It’s part of my vocabulary, and I re-visit it until I have exhausted its possibilities. If you compare the litho with the tapestry, you cannot help but note how different they are from each other, yet how much alike. The individual texture that makes up the visual events in the tapestry are very different from the ones in the litho. At the same time, those textures are integral to the tapestry.”

— June Wayne, A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, The Art of Everything by Robert P. Conway.

Please also see the lithographs At Last A Thousand, States I-IV