Crucifixion by Llyn Foulkes, 1985Saddle Peak, oil, acrylic and photographs on canvas by Llyn Foulkes, 1984, Honolulu Museum of Art
Llyn Foulkes (born 17 November 1934, in Yakima, Washington) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles.
As a student at Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts), Foulkes began exhibiting with the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1959. He held his first one-man exhibition at Ferus in 1961. Other early solo exhibitions included the Pasadena Art Museum (1962) and the Oakland Art Museum (1964). He also showed with a new 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 work for its collection, in 1964 as the original building was still under construction. Charles Proof Demetrion selected Foulkes to represent the United States in the IX São Paulo Art Biennial, Museu de Arte Moderna São Paulo, Brazil also 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 period resulted in his first retrospective organized by the Newport Harbor Art Museum (1974). Music also became a major catalyst in Foulkes's work at this time. He played drums with 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 interest in one-man bands and began playing solo with "The Machine," which he created. He still performs with The Machine regularly on the West Coast and has released a CD of original compositions, entitled Llyn Foulkes and His Machine: Live at the Church of Art.
Since the early 1980s, Foulkes began working on a series of tableaux, beginning with O’Pablo (1983). His work POP (1986-1990), in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, utilizes fragments of real clothing and real upholstery, all conjoined with the painted surface. Paul Shimmel included POP, along with a group of subsequent paintings, in the "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 execution of these two works along with extended 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,[1] and was compared to other acclaimed artist portrait documentaries "Searching for Sugar Man" and "Cutie and the Boxer" by Variety.[2] The film will open theatrically in the United States in May 2014.
Llyn Foulkes was a participant and performer 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,[3] directed by Tamar[4] Halpern and Chris Quilty, is available on iTunes[5] and Netflix.[6] Llyn Foulkes played a role in the film Your Name Here,[7] also directed by Tamar Halpern.
^"Llyn Foulkes One Man Band: LAFF Review". 21 June 2013.
^"Film Review: 'Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band'". 12 July 2013.
^"Llyn Foulkes One Man Band". Llyn Foulkes One Man Band.
LlynFoulkes (born 17 November 1934, in Yakima, Washington) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. As a student at Chouinard Art Institute...
feature films, including the documentary LlynFoulkes One Man Band, co-directed with Chris Quilty. Halpern met Foulkes when they were neighbors in Los Angeles...
1972, including interviews with artists Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, LlynFoulkes, Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha, and Peter Shire, among others. Manuel Gregorio...
contemporary artists such as Abel Alejandre, Karen Finley, Kim Dingle, Gronk, LlynFoulkes, Sheree Rose, and others. The gallery also utilized guest curators, who...
Hernandez, Mika Tajima, Mary Obering, Liza Ryan, Hank Willis Thomas, LlynFoulkes and Beverly Pepper. Created in 2011, the gallery was founded under the...
exhibiting in Los Angeles in shows such as “Imagination” curated by LlynFoulkes at LAICA. She developed a celebrity clientele including Jack Nicholson...
contemporary artists such as Karen Finley, Kim Dingle, Gronk (artist), LlynFoulkes, Sheree Rose and others. The gallery also utilizes guest curators, who...
conceptual artists of conscience including Dennis Adams, Chris Burden, LlynFoulkes, Antoni Muntadas, Irving Petlin, Judith Shea and many others. Outreach...
sculptor Helen Bershad (born 1934), abstract expressionist painter LlynFoulkes (born 1934), painter James Gill (born 1934), painter Anita Huffington...
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Dennis Adams, Antoni Muntadas and Pablo Helguera, along with painters LlynFoulkes, Irving Petlin, the Boston Visionary Paul Laffoley and the metaphysical...
Places Stanya Kahn United States 2011 Happy Song for You Stanya Kahn, LlynFoulkes United States 2022 Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver Lewie Kloster...
(1958), Robert Irwin (1959), John Mason (1959), Kenneth Price (1960), LlynFoulkes (1962), Larry Bell (1962) and Ed Ruscha (1963). The Los Angeles County...
UCLA as a visiting artist, along with artists Richard Diebenkorn and LlynFoulkes. While in California, he was a principal organizer of the "Artist’s Protest...
and Bruce Nauman in 1975 and Imagination in 1976, which was curated by LlynFoulkes. In 1976, LAICA lost the lease to their Century City location. By March...
Boone John Currin Hayden Dunham Walker Evans Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin LlynFoulkes Simon Fujiwara Felix Gonzalez-Torres Al Hansen Elliott Hundley Craig...
the Turner Contemporary, Margate, England. February 3 until May 9 – "LlynFoulkes" at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. February 15...
Cumming, Stephen De Staebler, Richard DeVore, Jim Dine, Herbert Ferber, LlynFoulkes, Judy Fox, Sam Francis, David Gilhooly, David Hockney, Diane Itter, Ferne...
Yarber, Ronald Davis, Sam Francis, Deborah Butterfield, Katy Stone, LlynFoulkes, and Robert Zakanitch. Of her work, Faure often insisted, "You can't...
at the Patricia Faure Gallery in Los Angeles alongside paintings by LlynFoulkes. In 2008 Stone's solo exhibition A Season Swirling (Unfurling) took place...
Chicago, Francis De Erdely, Tony DeLap, Manny Farber, Oskar Fischinger, LlynFoulkes, Sam Francis, George Herms, Craig Kauffman, Peter Krasnow, Roger Kuntz...
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972, studying with Richard Diebenkorn and LlynFoulkes.[citation needed] She gained her graduate degree at the Royal College...
Gallery, London, UK (1993) Inadvertently: Stuart Arends, Judy Fiskin, LlynFoulkes, Steve Gianakos, Maxwell Hendler, Barbara Kruger, Allan McCollum, Gwynn...
in the collection include national and international artists such as LlynFoulkes and William T. Wiley, as well as a significant representation of UNLV...
shows by contemporary artists such as Karen Finley, Kim Dingle, Gronk, LlynFoulkes, Sheree Rose and others. The gallery also utilizes guest curators, who...
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