Star Dust (State I)
Violet Star Dust (State II)
June Wayne, Stellar Winds Series
11½ x 9¾ in. (28.3 x 23.8 cm)
Lithographs printed by Edward Hamilton on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Editions of 15 and 10,1978.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
State I: Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Pomona College, 1992; Macquarie Galleries, 1989; Fresno Art M_useum, 1988; Print Club of Philadelphia, 1985; Associated American Artists, November 1985; Galerie des Femmes, 1985; Espace Pierre Cardin, 1983; Port of History Museum, 1983 (illus.); Northern Illinois University, 1982 (illus.); Occidental College, 1980; Security Pacific Bank, 1980; Pomona College, 1978 (illus.)
State II: Arizona State University Art Museum, 2019.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Both states: Brodsky Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art .
State I: Bibliotheque nationale de France, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, New York Public Library, Williams College Museum of Art.
State II: Arizona State University Art Museum, Grunwald Center, Neuberger Museum of Art.
COMMENT
Outside of the sun, our nearest neighbor star is Alpha Centauri, a triple star system bound together by gravity, lying 4.37 light years away. We can see two of these stars as a single one, this amongst the brightest in the night sky.
In her Stellar Wind series, June Wayne (1918-2011) transports us to the titanic forces churning in and around immensely distant thermonuclear furnaces. Paradoxically, the suite of lithographs on which they are based are some of the smallest Wayne created, the edition fitting in a small box.
In her relentless experimentation, Wayne's method for accomplishing these unusual meditations could be said to be scientific. But there is also a magical kinship to the ancient alchemists, mixing chemicals, colors, and metals to transform the ordinary into gold. An unsurpassed mastery of lithography can be seen in these lithographs, mixing water and ink on an oxidized aluminum plate using a peau de crapaud technique.
Star Dust
