The Chase

June Wayne, Kafka Series
20 x 80 in. (50.8 x 203.2 cm)
Oil on canvas, 1949.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; de Young Museum, 1956; Art Center of La Jolla, 1954; Pasadena Art Institute, 1952; University of Illinois, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1950.

COMMENT
Echoing Kafka, Wayne explores the nature of perception and of victory becoming a zero-sum game. As the creatures run across the canvas they take on characteristics of the other. “By the time the race is over, they have actually changed places. The victor becomes the loser, and vice versa, and nobody actually wins.”
—June Wayne, from Robert P. Conway, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne: The Art of Everything” Rutgers University Press, 2007.

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