La Cible

June Wayne
Tapestry
93¾ X 76¾ in.
Cotton, wool, and wool with additional fibers
Number 2/3 (two examples extant; the location of one is unknown) 1972.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Fullerton Museum Center, 2024; MB Abram Galleries, 2018; David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, 2013; Art Institute of Chicago, 2010; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Fresno Art Museum, 1988; Macalaser College, 1986; Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery, 1977; Rubicon Gallery, 1977; Galerie La Demeure, 1974; Van Doren Gallery, 1974; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1973.

COMMENTS

”La Cible (The Target) in concept is based on two works from 1951: the lithograph The Target and the oil painting The Law Court, part of the Justice series. Both explored optics, specifically binocular vision, a topic that had fascinated Wayne some twenty years earlier, perhaps understandable as she had been nearsighted from birth.”

—Christa C. Mayer Thurman, curator of June Wayne’s Narrative Tapestries: Tidal Waves, DNA, and the Cosmos, Art Institute of Chicago 2010.

“Wayne explored perspective in her own painting, but at the point where its laws broke down. She noticed a heightened sense of motion when peripheral vision took over from focal vision, and sought to synthesize the aberration.”

—Pat Gilmour, Founding Senior Curator of Prints: Tate, London; Senior Curator: National Gallery of Australia; Contributor: Print Quarterly, London; Author: A Love Affair With Lithography—The Prints Of June Wayne.

Please also see the lithographs The Target.