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June Wayne, Cognitos Series
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
Acrylic and silver leaf on paper marouflaged onto canvas with gesso and gelatin.
1984
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Private collection.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Neuberger Museum of Art,-1997 (illus.); Pomona College, 1992; Fresno Art Museum, 1988; Armstrong Gallery, 1984.
COMMENTS
June Wayne’s grandmother Florence fled to the US with Wayne’s mother Dorothy from the violent waves of antisemitism and pogroms that swept their native Minsk, Belarus, and much of the Russian Empire in the early 20th Century. This memory and the subsequent Holocaust of the 1940’s profoundly affected June Wayne’s outlook and perspective on the connection between emerging technologies and science and art. The Cognitos’ series is intended both as a study of the atmospheres and surfaces of imagined planets, and biographical portraits of friends or family members, here June Wayne’s grandmother Florence.
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