Base pair
June Wayne, Burning Helix Series
39 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (100,3 x 64,8 cm)
Color lithograph printed by William Law III on Rives with Tamarind watermark.
Edition of 25.
1970
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Zimmerli Art Museum, 2003; Grunwald Center, 1974; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1973; University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1973; Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, 1972; Phone Associates and Grunwald Foundation, 1970-1.
COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Brodsky Center, Grunwald Center, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum.
COMMENTS
June Wayne (1918-2011) explores here the DNA of her earlier work Dusty Helix, now experienced through generations. “This is a self-portrait in my favorite coat. The second head suggests either my forebears or my descendants—the idea of the double helix traveling to me from others and to others from me. The detail of the coat was important because it provided, as I like to provide, a bit of factual reality that makes something convincing, in this case as the handiwork of a sentient being entangled in the non-sentient double helix.” (from “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything” by Robert P. Conway).
