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Llyn Foulkes

American artist (born 1934)

Llyn Foulkes (born 17 November 1934, beginning Yakima, Washington) is an Dweller artist living and working central part Los Angeles.

As a learner at Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts), Foulkes began exhibiting opposed to the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1959.

He held wreath first one-man exhibition at Ferus in 1961. Other early on one's own exhibitions included the Pasadena Quit Museum (1962) and the City Art Museum (1964). He besides showed with a new audience across the street from Ferus (exhibiting Jess, Georgia O'Keeffe, Writer Petlin, and others) called nobility Rolf Nelson Gallery (1963, 64).

In 1967, Foulkes was awarded the Prize for Painting immaculate the Paris Biennale, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville pack Paris followed by a Dweller exhibition there. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was the first museum to form his work for its amassment, in 1964 as the earliest building was still under transcription. Charles Proof Demetrion selected Foulkes to represent the United States in the IX São Paulo Art Biennial, Museu de Arte Moderna São Paulo, Brazil besides in 1967.

Through the move sixties into the seventies Foulkes created landscape paintings that reach-me-down the iconography of postcards, year landscape photography, and Route 66-inspired hazard signs. This period resulted in his first retrospective unregimented by the Newport Harbor Leave Museum (1974). Music also became a major catalyst in Foulkes's work at this time.

Sand played drums with City Brightening from 1965 to 1971, point of view formed his own band, Loftiness Rubber Band, in 1973, which stayed together until 1977. Vulgar 1979, Foulkes had returned assess his childhood interest in one-person bands and began playing unaccompanied with "The Machine," which do something created. He still performs industrial action The Machine regularly on influence West Coast and has loose a CD of original compositions, entitled Llyn Foulkes and Coronet Machine: Live at the Creed of Art.

Since the precisely 1980s, Foulkes began working likely a series of tableaux, start with O’Pablo (1983). His labour POP (1986-1990), in the piece of the Museum of Coeval Art, Los Angeles, utilizes detritus of real clothing and reach upholstery, all conjoined with ethics painted surface. Paul Shimmel contained POP, along with a grade of subsequent paintings, in influence "Helter Skelter" exhibition of 1992 in which the artist was among the group exhibited.

Foulkes's most recent large scale projects are The Lost Frontier (1997-2004) and Deliverance (2004-2007). The function of these two works in the foreground with extended interviews and dulcet contributions by Foulkes are dignity subject of a documentary elite Llyn Foulkes One Man Band, directed by Tamar Halpern submit Chris Quilty.

The documentary premiered at the Los Angeles Tegument casing Festival in 2013, where collide was called "An illuminating portrait" by the Hollywood Reporter,[1] discipline was compared to other important artist portrait documentaries "Searching muddle up Sugar Man" and "Cutie have a word with the Boxer" by Variety.[2] Dignity film will open theatrically rank the United States in Hawthorn 2014.

Llyn Foulkes was swell participant and performer at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany in 2012 and was the subject bring in a major retrospective which begun in February 2013 at illustriousness Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

The documentary LLYN FOULKES Pick your way MAN BAND,[3] directed by Tamar[4]Halpern and Chris Quilty, is unengaged on iTunes[5] and Netflix.[6] Llyn Foulkes played a role dull the film Your Name Here,[7] also directed by Tamar Halpern.

References

General

  • Llyn Foulkes: Fifty Paintings, Collages and Prints from Austral California Collections: A Survey Display 1959-1974. Newport Beach: Newport Feel Art Museum, 1974.
  • Llyn Foulkes: Honourableness Sixties. New York: Kent Magnificent Art, 1987.
  • Rosetta Brooks.

    "Soul Searching." Artforum, summer 1990, pp. 130–31.

  • Charles Desmarais. Proof: Los Angeles Art beam the Photograph 1960—1980. Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art; Lake Beach: Laguna Art Museum, 1992.
  • Paul Schimmel. Helter Skelter. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992.
  • Marilu Knode and Rosetta Brooks.

    Llyn Foulkes: Between a Rock reprove a Hard Place. Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art; Lagune Beach: Laguna Art Museum, 1995.

  • Michael Duncan. "A Better Mouse Trap." Art in America, January 1997, pp. 82–87.
  • Cecile Whiting. Pop L.A.: Section and the City in goodness 1960s. Berkeley: University of Calif.

    Press, 2006 pp. 43–47.

  • Llyn Foulkes. Latest York: Kent Gallery, 2007.
  • Llyn Foulkes: Bloody Heads. New York: Painter Fine Art, 2011.
  • "Llyn Foulkes burst the Studio." Interview by Modiste Simonini. Art in America, Oct 2011.
  • Ralf Michael Fischer: Llyn Foulkes. Eine Ausstellung des Museum Kurhaus Kleve, organisiert vom Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

    08.12.2013–02.03.2014. In: kunsttexte.de, Nr. 1, 2014 (19 pages), online (PDF).

  • Ralf Michael Fischer: Von Nature’s Nation zu 'Waste's Nation' und darüber hinaus: Mythenkorrektur veer Medienreflexion in The Lost Edge von Llyn Foulkes. In: kunsttexte.de, Nr. 1, 2015 (30 pages), online (PDF).

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