June Wayne has always had an interested in art and is keenly observant. At the age of 5, she recognized in comic strips the dots of color fused by vision produced secondary hues. At this point she began to make drawings composed entirely of colored dots and was a sort of self-taught French Post-Impressionist in the manner of Seurat and Signac.
By the time she was 9 she began to illustrate the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam at the age of 9, this project occupied her into her late teens. Wayne’s dedication to a single project would inform her work for the rest of her life.
Bored with high school June Wayne dropped out and to prove to her mother she was and educated person, she took and passed the entrance examinations to the University of Chicago, but did not enter school.
At the age of 17 Ms. Wayne had a one-person show exhibiting her paintings at the Boulevard Gallery in Chicago. This resulted in her receiving an invitation by the Mexican Government to paint in Mexico.
In 1936 at the age of 18 June Wayne had achieved legendary status among twentieth-century artist due to her exhibit at the Palacio de Balles Artes in Mexico City.
Today Ms. Wayne is best known for her influence and work in printmaking and fine-art lithography. Founding the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1959 is one of her most renowned achievements. This workshop under her direction became one of the most important focal points of a general revival of printmaking in the United States. This revival provided other famous artists such as Willem de Kooning, Louise Nevelson and Ed Ruscha an opportunity to experiment in this format.
The spectacular prints of June Wayne earned her the estimable title “The Incontestable Pioneer of Contemporary Lithography”. Throughout her career she boldly explored a variety of media and aesthetic concepts. Working in painting, tapestry, film and video she was always pushing the limits of the media to develop new techniques.
Ms. Wayne created “Optical Art” long before it was identified and adapted Ben Day dots decades ahead of “Pop Art”. She was exploring new ideas and forms by the time these styles moved into the mainstream.
The feminist movement spurred June Wayne and validated her career. Her art is as varied as her styles and methods, which are informed by a wide range of influences from science, space exploration, literature, personal experience and feminist theory. She has been driven to remains one of the most innovative arts of the day.
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