Demented tidal Wave (State II)
June Wayne
41 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (105,4 x 74,9 cm)
Lithograph printed by William Law III and published by Tamstone on Rives with Tamarind watermark.
Edition of 10 and 15, 1972.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2014; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK, 2006; Rubicon Gallery, January 1977; Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1974; Van Doren Gallery, 1974; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1973; Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, 1972; Phone Associates and Grunwald Foundation, 1970-1.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Pomona College Museum of Art, Brodsky Center, Grunwald Center.
COMMENTS
Haunted by the immensity and turbulence of Lake Michigan in her native Chicago, June Wayne dreamt about tidal waves as a young girl.
Wayne’s lifelong fascination with tidal waves and the unpredictable power of water was remarkably prescient. Three of the most deadly earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis of the last hundred years occurred in 2004 (Indian Ocean), 2011 (Japan) and 2018 (Indonesia), well after Wayne created her Tidal Waves Series in the 1970’s.
As to the lithograph “Demented Tidal Wave State II” Wayne said: "Although it is rearing up like the other waves, this is not a curling wave like the others. It’s not listening to your opinion. It’s there. It’s aggressive. It’s tall. It is so wild I call it demented".
—June Wayne in video conversation with MB Abram at her Tamarind studio in 2009.
