White Tidal Wave (State i)
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
Zimmerli Art Museum, 2003; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1977; University of New Mexico Art Museum,1975; 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
"As an artist how do you make a wave look like its towering above? How do you get that verticality? How do you get that vividness? That is a real problem, a technical and aesthetic problem. I did it by literally making the waves stand up, which meant carving an edge on one side. Because if you think about waves, they go on forever. And you look at a wave which is very tall and it has diminished into the vanishing point. It vanishes. I had to go against that somehow. In this case I literally tore the piece of paper, tore it to give me the kind of energy, and the edge, but also to make it feel very physical. And this idea of having a wave come up like that, as though it were in a plume, is mostly contrary to reality, and yet I had to make it so convincing that you accept it even though you know it is absurd.”
“The beautiful white is the paper itself. The paper is really doing the work in this image. It is a very large area to keep clean while printing.”
—June Wayne in video conversation with MB Abram at her Tamarind studio in 2009.
