Moving Symbols

June Wayne, Kafka Series
36 3/8 x 30 in. (92.4 x 76.2 cm)
Oil on canvas, 1948.

COMMENT
Kafka, read by June Wayne as a teenager in Chicago, resonated deeply.
Her later Kafka series paintings were not intended, however, to illustrate the author, rather “they partake of the climate of Kafka, the Kafkaesque world where nothing is exactly what it seems to be and everything and its opposite are somehow united. I think this ambivalent world interested me for reasons in my own life, because nothing was what it seemed to be in the world around me, or even in me.”
—June Wayne, from Robert P. Conway, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne: The Art of Everything” Rutgers University Press, 2007.

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