Black Tidal Wave
June Wayne
29 3/4 x 22 1/2 in. (75,6 x 57,2 cm)
Color lithograph printed by William Law III and published by Tamstone on Wayne’s own Rives with mushroom watermark.
Edition of 20, 1973.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1977; Rubicon Gallery, 1977; Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1974; Grunwald Center, 1974; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,1973.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Brodsky Center, Grunwald Center.
COMMENTS
"I wanted to suggest the enormous scale of that kind of water manifestation. How do you do that, especially when a wave is so insistent upon simply falling away? For it to become aggressive it had to be almost like a person–rear up like some sort of creature. And that was the aesthetic device which animated these large prints."
"The question of scale: how you interpret something, how big it is, this is very important to a work. What does it evoke in you, the relationship to you? In Tenth Wave (see previous post) I hint at crowds in those little lines at the base. You sense those crowds fleeing, but I don’t give you the opportunity to compare the waves with the situation. (smiling) Hokusai made some mistakes, putting people in. By comparison that wave would be... only two or three time bigger than people. With people as a measure, you associate the wave with a different kind of scale.” (Excerpts from a video conversation with June Wayne in her Tamarind / Hollywood studio, 2009).
