Solar Refraction State I & II
June Wayne, Solar Flares Series
17¼ x 17 in. (43.8 x 43.2 cm)
Color lithograph printed by Edward Hamilton on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Editions of 15 and 5,1982.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
State I: Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997 (illus.); New York Academy of Sciences, 1997 (illus.); Pomona College, 1992; Macquarie Galleries, 1989; Fresno Art Museum, 1988 (illus.); Macalester College, 1986; Print Club of Philadelphia, 1985.
State II: Associated American Artists, 1988; Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2014.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Both states: Brodsky Center
State I: Arizona State University Art Museum, Bibliotheque nationale de France, National Gallery of Art.
COMMENTS
“In this one I pulled way back, and I am looking at a solar flare from a million miles away, over the horizon of an intervening planet. In the second state, I made the horizon darker and more solid. I was dealing with the way color breaks into a refraction. I have never seen such a thing in a solar flare. Maybe it exists, but, you know, I don’t sit around here looking at solar flares. I only know about them from space photos.”
—June Wayne, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything” by Robert P. Conway”
Solar Refraction State I
Solar Refraction State II