Visa

June Wayne
85¾ X 60¾ in.
Cotton, wool, and wool with additional fibers
Cartoon designed by June Wayne; tapestry bears artist's signature woven in lower left corner
Woven by Pierre Daquin (born 1936) at Atelier de Saint Cyr.
EA2 (two examples extant), 1973

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
MB Abram Galleries, 2018; Pasadena Museum of Art, 2014; Art Institute of Chicago, 2010; Pomona College, 1978; Van Doren Gallery, 1976; Galerie La Demeure, 1974; Van Doren Gallery; 1974; Los Angeles Municipal Art gallery, 1973.

COMMENTS
In this monumental tapestry June Wayne's fingerprint is woven, straddling the waves below and the outer cosmos above, that extraterrestrial space soon occupying her artistic attention.

Visa also reminds us that we are all voyagers, traversing outer and inner borders, the outer requiring contact with States and identification.

For her tapestries focusing on tidal waves, DNA and the cosmos, Wayne paradoxically chose a medium and historic textile ateliers associated with an antique and royal past, rather than the space age of which Wayne had become so cognizant.