Khis

June Wayne
54 x 72 in. (137.2 x 182.9 cm)
Acrylic, styrene, cotton, and silver leaf on canvas.
1988

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Benton Gallery, 1989; Fresno Art Museum, 1988.

COMMENTS
Here Wayne explores reflective light, “the Moon rather than the Sun".
—June Wayne, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything” by Robert P. Conway, Rutgers University Press, 2007.

“Space stretches by paradox, multiplies through radical abstraction, and magnifies via maximum reflection. Khis (1987) fractures the light reflecting off of its silver-leaf surface in increments small enough never to coalesce into interior shapes which would form a composition within the frame. A swift woosh and flutter moves in one direction across the plane; then the wind shifts and blows in another. Atmosphere is the icy after-image emanating from the peaks and crevices, rising into the air shared by its surface and ours.”
—Arlene Raven, “June Wayne - The Djuna Set”, Fresno Art Museum, 1988.

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