Distant White Action
June Wayne
36 x 36 x 2¾ in. (91.4 x 91.4 x 7 cm)
Acrylic, silver leaf, styrene, and litho collage on mahogany panel.
1989
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Fresno Art Museum, 1995; MB Abram Galleries, 2018.
COMMENTS
While most of us understandably are fixated on planetary events, June Wayne’s mind often wandered to her celestial researches and the outer cosmos. In “Distant White Action” and its companion “Distant Black Action” Wayne plays in the sandbox of forces far outside our own galaxy. With the explosion of a supernova, powerful luminosity is released, followed by a collapse to a black hole. The peak of brightness can be compared to that of an entire galaxy before fading. Wayne uses the whole collage, including its frame, to manifest these almost unimaginable forces. Behind the acrylic, crossbars, silver leaf and styrene chips, there are lithographic panels from a medium the artist knew so well.
Distant White Action