Sea Change

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Sea Change

Entry/Object ID

2017.19

Description

Rectangular grey thumbprint texture overlaying a rainbow gradiant background

Artwork Details

Medium

Color lithograph

Context

Many of Wayne’s works addressed repeating motifs and patterns, extrapolated into new forms and meanings. One series evolved into over a dozen images that examined macro and micro iterations of the same fingerprint pattern, including Sea Change. Wayne used the same image to depict forces shaping the individual and forces shaping the universe (genes, waves, winds, planetary gravities.) She was interest in both formal and conceptual relationships between the different prints, and the ingenuity of nature’s processes of repetition and reproduction. Sea Change captures what the artist coined “framed wind” and reimagines the fingerprint as gusts of air.

Acquisition

Accession

2017.19

Source or Donor

Robert Conway

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Anonymous donation, in honor of Marian Powers and Belverd Needles

Made/Created

Artist

Wayne, June

Date made

1976

Ethnography

Notes

North America, United States

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Location

BL Corner

Transcription

20/20 sea change June Wayne

Notes

Inscription Type: graphite

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

identity, metaphysical concepts, philosophical concepts, Nature, repetition (artistic concept), formal concepts (artistic concept), artistic concepts, reproductions (derivative objects), copies (derivative objects), derivative objects, object genres (object classifications)

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), Object Genres (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet, Objects Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

26-1/8 in

Length

21-1/8 in