Llyn Foulkes

Llyn Foulkes ( born November 17, 1934 in Yakima, Washington) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.

Life

Already during his studies at Chouinard Art Institute, now the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, he set in 1959 at the Ferus Galleryin Los Angeles, where in 1961 also held his first solo exhibition. Other early solo exhibitions among others in 1962 at the Pasadena Art Museum, now the Norton Simon Museum, and in 1964 in the Oakland Art Museum instead. Their 1967 Foulkes for the first time in Europe at the Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in the Paris Biennial. In 1967, he represented the U.S. at the IX. São Paulo Biennal in the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil.

Foulkes painted in the 1960s in the style of old landscape photography and old postcards. His first retrospective took place in 1974 at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California. Since that time, he is also active as a musician, he appears today as a soloist with his self-developed musical apparatus " Machine" from numerous percussion instruments and horns, and publishes CDs of his compositions.

Since the early 1980s, he developed a painting technique using scraps of fabric or upholstery fabrics and photographs. 2011 was his painting Where did I go wrong? in 1991 at the Venice Biennale to see. He participated in the Documenta (13 ) of 2012 in the Fridericianum in Kassel with some of his works. 2013 honored him with the Armand Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles, a retrospective that was shown subsequently also at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Museum Kurhaus Kleve.

Exhibitions

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