Viridian
June Wayne
18¼ x 23¼ in. (47.9 x 60.6 cm)
Color lithograph printed by Edward Hamilton on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Edition of 15,1982.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Zimmerli Art Museum, 2003.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Brodsky Center, Pomona College Museum of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum.
COMMENTS
Here June Wayne riffs on the palette and compositions of outer space. Each planet has its own color, and scientists speculate as to the availability of water. "Cameras aboard spacecraft like New Horizons and Cassini take images using filters that isolate different wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum. Some, like red and blue, capture light the human eye can see. Others, like ultraviolet and infrared, capture light it can't. All the images arrive to Earth as black-and-white frames, and then are assigned colors digitally and compiled into a composite.”
—"Here's What Space Actually Looks Like to the Human Eye” by Laura Mallonee, Wired, 2016.
Viridian