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1997-1999
Quotes From Critics' Reviews of
"JUNE WAYNE
A RETROSPECTIVE" |
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| • A travelling exhibition of paintings, prints,
tapestries, collages and drawings organized and curated
by Lucinda H. Gedeon, Director Neuberger Museum of Art
in cooperation with The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
and the Palm Springs Desert Museum. The catalogue of the exhibition may be |
purchased from the Neuberger Museum or The University of Washington Press.
• Essay by Arlene Raven
• 147 pages, many illustrations ($29.95 + SH) |
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| "Woman of
Many Themes and Styles" |
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, Grace Glueck, art
critic
Sunday, June 16, 1997 (1 illustration)
". . . June
Wayne. . . .reknown for founding Tamarind Lithography
Workshop...is also a painter, printmaker, creator of tapestries.
. . . and no one can accuse her of timidity about new approaches....as
seen in two. . complimentary paintings, THE CHASE and
THE ELEMENTS. . . . . . divided into horizontal bands
of color. . . . . strange morphs arranged. . in intervals
like musical notes.. |
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| THE CHASE 1949, oil, 20 x 80" |
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| THE ELEMENTS 1951, oil, 27 x
90" |
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(THE NEW YORK TIMES, Grace Glueck review
continued:)
"Ms. Wayne did some of her best
work in… Tapestries (which she) considers to be
a graphic art… doing full-scale cartoons…
closely supervising (their weaving at French ateliers…
particularly impressive is GRAND VAGUE NOIRE, a three-tiered
tidal wave in blue, black and white rearing on a ground
of buff-pink… and LAME DE CHOC, a sprawling dragon
(of a) wave… backed by geometric bands of color…" |
"Printmaker's Show with Tapestries"
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, Vivien Raynor, art critic
Sunday, June 8, 1997 (4 illustations) Click for enlargement of VERDICT
"For viewers who think of June Wayne primarily as printmaker and founder of Tamarind Lithography Workshop, the Neuberger Museum of Art has a surprise; a retrospective by the artist that is one third painting and tapestries. . . .the artist is as complex as her background. From pristine lithographs to exquisitely wrought tapestries. . . . Exceptional images . . . . the tapesty VERDICT (1973). . . . like a cubistic rock face. . . .garnished with red and yellow dots and yellow crosses is surmounted by a strand of pink and lavender beads [the DNA molecule]. . . . An exhibition that sums up a renowned but little known figure." |
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GRANDE VAGUE NOIRE
1976 tapestry 7 x 6' |
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LAME DE CHOC 1972
10 X 6' tapestry |
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, Grace Gluek review
continued:
". . . arresting multi-color lithographs. . .devoted
to celestial phenomena STELLAR WIND, SOLAR FLARES...in
each of the MY PALOMAR series, there hovers a roving
square, inflecting a distant spacey field . . . . elegant
EARTHSCAN presents. . . a yellow-green square at the
edge of a vast cosmos inflected by a trail of green
spume. Wayne demonstrates her command of a tricky medium
. . . lithography.
(Click on MY Palomar above to see the entire suite).
We then realize the phenomenon of the universe and how interchangeable the winds and water are. Waves and Stellar Winds cast off the same sort of fields of activity, and only through art can one image motion be exchanged for another.
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| WETWIND - 1979 |
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BREEZE - 1980 |
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The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.
June Wayne |
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