22 facts about Llyn Foulkes

Llyn Foulkes (born 17 November 1934, in Yakima, Washington) is an American artiste living and committed in Los Angeles.

As a student at Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts), Foulkes began exhibiting as soon as the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1959. He held his first one-man exhibition at Ferus in 1961. Other to come solo exhibitions included the Pasadena Art Museum (1962) and the Oakland Art Museum (1964). He also showed later than a additional gallery across the street from Ferus (exhibiting Jess, Georgia O’Keeffe, Irving Petlin, and others) called the Rolf Nelson Gallery (1963, 64). In 1967, Foulkes was awarded the Prize for Painting at the Paris Biennale, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris followed by a European exhibition there. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was the first museum to acquire his operate for its collection, in 1964 as the original building was yet under construction. Charles Proof Demetrion prearranged Foulkes to represent the United States in the IX São Paulo Art Biennial, Museu de Arte Moderna São Paulo, Brazil as well as in 1967.

Through the late sixties into the seventies Foulkes created landscape paintings that utilized the iconography of postcards, vintage landscape photography, and Route 66-inspired hazard signs. This epoch resulted in his first retrospective organized by the Newport Harbor Art Museum (1974). Music with became a major catalyst in Foulkes’s fake at this time. He played drums subsequent to City Lights from 1965 to 1971, and formed his own band, The Rubber Band, in 1973, which stayed together until 1977. By 1979, Foulkes had returned to his childhood amalgamation in one-man bands and began playing solo with “The Machine,” which he created. He nevertheless performs afterward The Machine regularly on the West Coast and has released a sticker album of original compositions, entitled Llyn Foulkes and His Machine: Live at the Church of Art.

Since the before 1980s, Foulkes began working upon a series of tableaux, beginning with O’Pablo (1983). His work POP (1986-1990), in the gathering of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, utilizes fragments of genuine clothing and real upholstery, all conjoined in the melody of the painted surface. Paul Shimmel included POP, along following a society of subsequent paintings, in the “Helter Skelter” exhibition of 1992 in which the artist was among the society exhibited. Foulkes’s most recent large scale projects are The Lost Frontier (1997-2004) and Deliverance (2004-2007). The realization of these two works along with lengthy interviews and musical contributions by Foulkes are the subject of a documentary entitled Llyn Foulkes One Man Band, directed by Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty. The documentary premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2013, where it was called “An illuminating portrait” by the Hollywood Reporter, and was compared to new acclaimed player portrait documentaries “Searching for Sugar Man” and “Cutie and the Boxer” by Variety. The film will contact theatrically in the United States in May 2014.

Llyn Foulkes was a participant and artiste at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany in 2012 and was the subject of a major retrospective which started in February 2013 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

The documentary LLYN FOULKES ONE MAN BAND, directed by TamarHalpern and Chris Quilty, is available on iTunes and Netflix. Llyn Foulkes played a role in the film Your Name Here, also directed by Tamar Halpern.

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