Ablaze State I & State II

June Wayne, My Palomar Series
18½ x 16 in. (47 x 40.6 cm)
Color lithograph printed by Edward Hamilton on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Two editions of 15,1983.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Both states: Macquarie Galleries, 1989; Fresno Art Museum, 1988 (illus.); Associated American Artists, 1988; Print Club of Philadelphia, 1985.
State I: Zimmerli Art Museum, 2003; Neuberg􀀅r Museum of Art, 1997 (illus.); Knoxville Museum of Art, 1995; Pomona College, 1992; Associated American Artists, September 1986; Macalester College, 1986; Associated American Artists, November 1985; Galerie des Femmes, 1985.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Brodsky Center, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art.
State I: Zimmerli Art Museum.
State II: Jundt Art Museum.

COMMENTS
As the square of this series continues its journey through the cosmos, we are left to wonder whether we are looking at some earthly tributary or solar fires seen from the magnification of the Palomar Observatory telescope. June Wayne, a lover of puns, enjoyed playing with ambiguity. Here we speculate as to dimensions of size, space and time. The My Palomar work was created at a time of severe personal challenges. June Wayne explained that this series “was the positive thing that made it possible for me to survive whatever was going on. In that sense, it was where I lived... I made a clean break with the realities on Earth.”
—June Wayne, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything” by Robert P. Conway, Rutgers University Press, 2007.

 

Ablaze State I

Image of June Wayne’s Ablaze State II

Ablaze State II