Star Leap
June Wayne, Stellar Winds Series
4½ x s¾ in. (11.4 x 14.9 cm)
Color lithograph printed by Edward Hamilton on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Edition of 12,1979.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, 2019; Associated American Artists, 1988 (illus.); Tobey C. Moss Gallery, 1984; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, 1983; Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2014.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Pomona College Museum of Art.
COMMENTS
The death of a star is one of the most dramatic and violent events in space. Before going out in a blaze of glory, some stars experience violent eruptions, releasing glowing hot layers of gas. The rapid collapse and violent explosion of a massive star occurs after it has burned through the hydrogen, helium and other elements in its core, and has run out of energy, causing a supernova. One such star, located in the NGC 5731 galaxy about 120 million light-years away from Earth, was 10 times more massive than the sun before it exploded. (Excerpts from "Giant dying star explodes as scientists watch in real time — a first for astronomy” by Ashley Strickland, referencing a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, 2022)
"Although Wayne’s cosmic imageries may explore the infinite darkness of outer space, they are not darkened by cynicism or satiric commentary. Unlike her Justice Series, and Fables Series, she does not use the heavens to comment adversely on the human condition.”
—“A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything” by Robert P. Conway, Rutgers University Press 2007.
Star Leap