Tenth Wave
June Wayne
41 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (105,4 x 74,9 cm)
Color lithograph printed by William Law III and published by Tamstone on Wayne’s own Rives with mushroom watermark.
Edition of 15, 1972.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 2006; Zimmerli Art Museum, 2003; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Franco-American Institute, 1978; Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1977; Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery, 1977; Woman’s Building, 1977; Artemisia Gallery, 1975; Galerie La Demeure, 1974; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,1973.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Brodsky Center, Grunwald Center, National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum.
COMMENTS
"Waves are such a great mystery, especially for an artist to draw. A wave has no edges. Whatever it does, it does far away from where you can really see it. We think the water is rushing towards us. Actually the action is quite different. Everything is rushing towards us and the water takes on the shape of that energy but actually any particular spot is mostly going up and down... It's paradoxical—it ain't what you see. You can't be sure what you're looking at. And yet it's also a force that has no respect whatsoever for your opinion. That's very interesting to me. It's the human dilemma.”
“Tenth Wave is full of puns. You can read the image as though you're looking at a low hanging meteor between two light cliffs, or you can read it as a huge waterspout, or as the front of a wave, very close to you. Those spaces reverse themselves. The edge of the water is at the top, and the sides can be cliffs or air. Everything is unexpected.”
—June Wayne in video conversation with MB Abram at her Tamarind studio in 2009.
