Knockout

June Wayne
28 1/2 x 35 3/8 in. (71.4 x 89.9 cm)
Lithograph printed by Judy Solodkin, assisted by Saba Daraee, and published by Solo Press on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamarind watermark.
Editions of 15,1996.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2014; Birmingham Museum and Art gallery, 2007; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Portland Art Museum, 1997.

SELECTED COLLECTION
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

COMMENTS
“The ‘knockout’ idea came from an article in the New York Times of 23 November 1995: ‘Gene Defect Tight To Violence In Male Mice: For lack of a brain chemical, male mice become killers and sex monomaniacs’.” To learn more about this process, scientists bred colonies of ‘knockout mice’.”
—Robert P. Conway, A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything, 2007.

“Knockout reprises a poignant visual memory from the summer of 1922: a horse-drawn waffle wagon which would come about dusk but not predictably each day. Wayne would sit on the curb and listen for the bells on the horse’s harness. ‘Was my one waffle enough to bring him to our block where I was the only child and our wooden duplex the only building among the overgrown vacant lots?’ Thirty-five years passed before she ate such a waffle again—at The Hague in 1957. ‘It was my Prussian Madeleine cake.’”
—Arlene Raven, curator “June Wayne, A Retrospective”, Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997, exhibition catalogue essay.