Makh
June Wayne, Cognitos Series
24¼ x 30 in. (61.6 x 76.2 cm)
Acrylic and silver leaf on paper marouflaged onto canvas with gesso and gelatin.
1984
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Armstrong Gallery, 1984.
COMMENTS
The “Cognitos” series of paintings have thick, built-up surfaces. Some of this character can be attributed to Wayne’s habit of overpainting earlier works with which she was dissatisfied. That was the case here. The paintings are imbued with the personality of the friend or family member giving it the title. “Makh” refers to W. MacNeil Lowry, visionary program officer at the Ford Foundation, New York, which underwrote the Tamarind Lithography Workshop and other experimental art projects throughout the country. We are left to imagine what planetary atmosphere or topography is depicted.
Source: Robert P. Conway, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything”, Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Makh