Before They Fade Into Memory from the collection of Pyramid Atlantic

Photograph by Ulf Wallin Photography

+ 22 images

June Linowitz

Before They Fade Into Memory, 2025-26

Cast abaca fiber

103 x 134 x 27 in

Edition. 3/6

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Before They Fade Into Memory is a meditation on the accelerating disappearance of animal species from our planet. The work features animals that are either already extinct or critically endangered. Each figure begins as a sculpted form from which a mold is cast, then recreated in artist made abaca paper. Paper was chosen with intent: it is one of the most common and disposable materials we produce, used and discarded without thought. That disposability becomes a metaphor for how animals, too, are increasingly treated as expendable - erased through neglect, exploitation, and destruction of habitat.
The animals are presented in postures that recall both trophy rugs and roadkill: flattened skins with three dimensional heads and feet remaining, haunting traces of once-living beings. This posture is not passive but accusatory - it speaks to the violence and indifference of human actions, reducing magnificent creatures to mere remnants.
Suspended in white, the paper animals appear as fragile ghosts, hovering between presence and absence. Together, they form a silent procession - a warning and an elegy - urging us to reconsider what we value before more lives vanish into memory.

Red Wolf 2026
38 1/2” x 30 ¾” x 4 ¼”
$1300

Dama Gazelle 2026
48 ½” x 14” x 4”
$1500

Vaquita 2026
30 ½” x 18” x 2 ¼”
$1000

California Tiger Salamander. 2026
15 ¾” x 18 ½” x ¾”
$500

Polar Bear 2025
41 ¾” x 41 ½” x 4 1/8”
$1300

Northern Long Eared Bat 2025
9 ¼” x 24” x 1 ½”
$600

Sumatran Tiger 2026
44 ½” x 33 ½” x 3 ½”
$1500

Black Footed Ferret 2025
27 ½” x 17 ¾” x 2”
$700

Golden Frog 2025
5 ½” x 8” x ½”
$250
Orange Roughy (Fish) 2025
10 ½” x 5” x ¼”
$250

Lemur 2025
39 ¾” x 29 ¾” x 2 ½”
$1200

Manatee 2025
48 ½” x 35” x 2 ¾”
$1200

Mohave Ground Squirrel 2025
16 ¾” x 10 ½” x ¾”
$550

Pangolin 2025
40 ¼” x 22” x 2 ½”
$1000

Passenger Pigeon 2025
13 ¾” x 8” x ¼”
$550

Riverine Rabbit 2025
19” x 22 ¼” x 1 ¾”
$900

Maclear’s Rat 2025
17” x 11” x 1”
$500

Saint Croix Racer (Snake) 2025
23 ¼” x 3 ½” x ¼”
$250

Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle 2025
25” x 25 ¼” x 1 ½”
$900

Monarch Butterfly 2026
3 ¼” x 3 ½” x 1/8”
$40

British Jewel Beetle 2026
3 ¼” z 3 ½” x 1/8”
$40

Wild Bee 2026
1 ½” x 2 ¼” x 1/8”
$30

Bonobo Ape 2026
41 1/2” x 32 1/4” x 4 1/4”
Abaca paper, crochet thread
$1400

Caribbean Monk Seal
42 1/4” x 24” x 3”
Abaca paper, crochet thread
$1300

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About the artist

June Linowitz

www.JuneLinowitz.com
@junelinowitz

June Linowitz has been engaged with art her whole life. While pursuing an active
studio practice she has been, at varying times, an art teacher, a gallery director, an
exhibition curator and an art consultant with her own business, ArtSeen, Inc.
Linowitz is an active member of the Washington, DC art community. She has served
on numerous boards and independent projects supporting the greater community.
In 2015 she was honored by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center as one of the
50 women included in “Images and Expressions – Maryland Women in the Arts”.
In the past few years Linowitz started making paper. She has experimented with
this very versatile medium, creating works that integrate photo transfer, casting,
sewing and three-dimensional construction. Her latest work, the installation
Before They Fade Into Memory, focuses on the 6th extinction, which is currently taking
place due to human activity.
Linowitz has shown her work both nationally and internationally. She lives and
maintains her studio in Bethesda, MD.