Frozen Tidal Wave
June Wayne
41 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (105,4 x 74,9 cm)
Color lithograph printed by David Hamilton, assisted by Perry Tymeson, on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Edition of 20, 1974.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, 2019; Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1977; Woman’s Building, 1977; Artemisia Gallery, 1975; Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1974; Van Doren Gallery, 1974.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, British Museum, Brodsky Center.
COMMENTS
June Wayne visited Alaska in 1974 in support of creative conditions for Alaskan artists, many of them indigenous Inuit and Yupik peoples. She investigated the availability of artist's materials, including fine papers, brushes, wood, and other essential tools.
Her visit occurred during the summer when it was light most of the time, greatly energizing Wayne. She stayed in a room at a hotel that straddled the huge fissure of the 9.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami of 1964.
Returning from Alaska, Wayne created Frozen Tidal Wave. “The rearing up of the waves makes it looks like sculpture, like some arctic bird, changing a little the subject.” (June Wayne, from a video conversation in her Tamarind / Hollywood studio, 2009).
It is no coincidence perhaps that the treatment here is almost sculptural, Wayne in touch with one of her closest friends, artist Louise Nevelson, equally innovative in her use of materials.
