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June Wayne, Stellar Winds Series
11 x 9¾ in. (27.9 x 23.8 cm)
Color lithograph printed by Edward Hamilton on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Edition of 15,1979.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, 2019; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997 (illus.); Pomona College, 1992; Macquarie Galleries, 1989; Fresno Art Museum, 1988 (illus.); Macalester College, 1986; Print Club of Philadelphia, 1985; Associated American Artists, November 1985; Galerie des Femmes, 1985; Northern Illinois University, 1982; Occidental College, 1980; Security Pacific Bank, 1980.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Brodsky Center, Grunwald Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Williams College Museum of Art.
COMMENTS
Space debris began to accumulate in the Earth's orbit immediately upon the launch of Sputnik 1 into orbit in October 1957. Since that time, artificial objects in space have multiplied. The US Space Surveillance Network reports that more than 2,200 satellites and tens of millions of pieces of small debris are now circulating in the outer atmosphere, posing a danger to astronauts and spacecraft. Long before scientists sounded the alarm, June Wayne was exploring the phenomenon of these debris streams. Wayne’s reach far exceeded our own Earth’s atmosphere, studying and imagining galaxies far beyond the Milky Way. A stream of stars, once part of a cluster, were torn apart by our galaxy’s gravity. As in Hindu philosophy, destruction in the Universe goes hand in hand with creation and renewal. The cosmos discards and the cosmos transforms.
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