Background
Foulkes, Llyn was born on November 17, 1934 in Yakima, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
(Llyn Foulkes tableaus may be read as an emotional respons...)
Llyn Foulkes tableaus may be read as an emotional response to the political and economic climate of our time. Using found objects laminated into the painting surface, Foulkes expresses a sense of an aborted utopia. His unique manipulations of materials and perspective convey a moral imperative to come to terms with extraordinary states of distress and alienation. Foulkes began exhibiting with the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1959. Through the late sixties into the seventies, Foulkes would create trademark landscape paintings that utilized the iconography of postcards, vintage landscape photography, and Route 66 inspired hazard signs transformed into sly symbols of the broken promise of freedom once embedded in the American fantasy of the open road. Since the early 1980s, Foulkes has turned to 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, real upholstery all conjoined with the painted surface. Paul Shimmel included POP, along with a new group of paintings, in his Helter Skelter exhibition of 1992. His most recent large scale projects are The Lost Frontier (1997-2004) and Deliverance (2004-2007).
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Foulkes, Llyn was born on November 17, 1934 in Yakima, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Student, Center Washington College, 1952-1953; student, University Washington, 1954; student, Chouinard The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957-1959.
Professor painting and drawing, artist-in-residence University of California at Los Angeles, 1965—1971. Resident painter painting workshop Art Center School, Los Angeles, 1971—1977. Visiting professor art University California, Irvine, 1981—1982, Santa Barbara, 1983—1984.
Professor Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1986—1987.
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Served with Army of the United States, 1954-1956.
Married Katie Foulkes. Children: Laurey, Jenny, Breck.