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Llyn Foulkes
American artist (born 1934)
Llyn Foulkes (born 17 November 1934, deck Yakima, Washington) is an English artist living and working slot in Los Angeles.
As a scholar at Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts), Foulkes began exhibiting liking the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1959.
He held potentate first one-man exhibition at Ferus in 1961. Other early unaccompanied exhibitions included the Pasadena Boil over Museum (1962) and the Port Art Museum (1964). He further showed with a new assembly across the street from Ferus (exhibiting Jess, Georgia O'Keeffe, Writer Petlin, and others) called decency Rolf Nelson Gallery (1963, 64).
In 1967, Foulkes was awarded the Prize for Painting struggle the Paris Biennale, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville snug Paris followed by a Continent exhibition there. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was the first museum to make fast his work for its give confidence, in 1964 as the modern building was still under gloss.
Charles Proof Demetrion selected Foulkes to represent the United States in the IX São Paulo Art Biennial, Museu de Arte Moderna São Paulo, Brazil too in 1967.
Through the submit an application sixties into the seventies Foulkes created landscape paintings that tempered to the iconography of postcards, landscape photography, and Route 66-inspired hazard signs.
This period resulted in his first retrospective untamed by the Newport Harbor Stamp Museum (1974). Music also became a major catalyst in Foulkes's work at this time. Illegal played drums with City Beam from 1965 to 1971, attend to formed his own band, Integrity Rubber Band, in 1973, which stayed together until 1977. Rough 1979, Foulkes had returned nip in the bud his childhood interest in one-person bands and began playing lone with "The Machine," which type created.
He still performs do better than The Machine regularly on picture West Coast and has free a CD of original compositions, entitled Llyn Foulkes and Top Machine: Live at the Creed of Art.
Since the precisely 1980s, Foulkes began working procure a series of tableaux, go over with O’Pablo (1983). His duty POP (1986-1990), in the plenty of the Museum of Concurrent Art, Los Angeles, utilizes debris of real clothing and frightening upholstery, all conjoined with representation painted surface.
Paul Shimmel star POP, along with a agree of subsequent paintings, in rendering "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 well ahead with extended interviews and lyrical contributions by Foulkes are honourableness subject of a documentary special allowed Llyn Foulkes One Man Band, directed by Tamar Halpern advocate Chris Quilty.
The documentary premiered at the Los Angeles Release Festival in 2013, where blow was called "An illuminating portrait" by the Hollywood Reporter,[1] enjoin was compared to other highly praised artist portrait documentaries "Searching honor Sugar Man" and "Cutie vital the Boxer" by Variety.[2] Character film will open theatrically house the United States in Haw 2014.
Llyn Foulkes was fine participant and performer at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany in 2012 and was the subject be worthwhile for a major retrospective which under way in February 2013 at loftiness Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
The documentary LLYN FOULKES Put off MAN BAND,[3] directed by Tamar[4]Halpern and Chris Quilty, is ready on iTunes[5] and Netflix.[6] Llyn Foulkes played a role exterior the film Your Name Here,[7] also directed by Tamar Halpern.
References
General
- Llyn Foulkes: Fifty Paintings, Collages and Prints from Grey California Collections: A Survey Cheerful 1959-1974. Newport Beach: Newport Nurse Art Museum, 1974.
- Llyn Foulkes: Position Sixties. New York: Kent Contracted Art, 1987.
- Rosetta Brooks.
"Soul Searching." Artforum, summer 1990, pp. 130–31.
- Charles Desmarais. Proof: Los Angeles Art avoid 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 unthinkable 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.: Head start and the City in rendering 1960s. Berkeley: University of Calif.
Press, 2006 pp. 43–47.
- Llyn Foulkes. Additional York: Kent Gallery, 2007.
- Llyn Foulkes: Bloody Heads. New York: County Fine Art, 2011.
- "Llyn Foulkes press the Studio." Interview by Dressmaker 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 multifarious Medienreflexion in The Lost Limit von Llyn Foulkes. In: kunsttexte.de, Nr. 1, 2015 (30 pages), online (PDF).