Escape State I & State II
June Wayne
25 x 23½ in. (63.5 x 59.7 cm)
Color lithographs printed by Edward Hamilton on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Editions of 15 and 10,1986.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Both states: Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997 (illus.); Macquarie Galleries, 1989; Associated American Artists, 1988 (illus.)
State I: Macalester College, 1986.
State II: Knoxville Museum of Art, 1995; Fresno Art Museum, 1988 (illus., back cover)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Both states: Bibliothèque Nationale de France
State I: Brodsky Center, Library of Congress
State II: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art.
COMMENTS
“Escape” has prescient meaning for we humans floating in space. Wayne is also experimenting with forms and colors, and the way in which the human eye processes information. “The states are two ways of seeing exactly the same image, and yet they are wildly different from each other in their effect on the spectator”.
—June Wayne, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything” by Robert P. Conway, Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Escape State I
Escape State II