Llyn Foulkes, born in 1934, was educated at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. He is a creator of assemblages, and is a painter and conceptualist, whose work has characteristics of Pop Art... Read full biography
Llyn Foulkes, born in 1934, was educated at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. He is a creator of assemblages, and is a painter and conceptualist, whose work has characteristics of Pop Art with repeated monochrome images of eroded rocks, to which he applies labels as if they might be... Read full biography
Llyn Foulkes, born in 1934, was educated at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. He is a creator of assemblages, and is a painter and conceptualist, whose work has characteristics of Pop Art with repeated monochrome images of eroded rocks, to which he applies labels as if they might be postcards. His assemblages incorporate polyethylene, wood, paper and enamel and his paintings done in oil and acrylic. Llyn Foulkes and the Rubber Band group was founded by him in the 1970s, using humor... Read full biography
Llyn Foulkes, born in 1934, was educated at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. He is a creator of assemblages, and is a painter and conceptualist, whose work has characteristics of Pop Art with repeated monochrome images of eroded rocks, to which he applies labels as if they might be postcards. His assemblages incorporate polyethylene, wood, paper and enamel and his paintings done in oil and acrylic. Llyn Foulkes and the Rubber Band group was founded by him in the 1970s, using humor and refusing to become "a product for art's sake." Apparently believing in the most direct approach to art, he wants to give art validity "in an over-stimulated world." . His awards include a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and a... Read full biography
Llyn Foulkes, born in 1934, was educated at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. He is a creator of assemblages, and is a painter and conceptualist, whose work has characteristics of Pop Art with repeated monochrome images of eroded rocks, to which he applies labels as if they might be postcards. His assemblages incorporate polyethylene, wood, paper and enamel and his paintings done in oil and acrylic. Llyn Foulkes and the Rubber Band group was founded by him in the 1970s, using humor and refusing to become "a product for art's sake." Apparently believing in the most direct approach to art, he wants to give art validity "in an over-stimulated world." . His awards include a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and a New Talent Purchase Grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has exhibited his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (35)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Fuglie, Gordon
29 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
75 Works, 75 Years Collecting the Art of California (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Laguna Art Museum
139 pages (color)
Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Hough, Katherine
111 pages (color)
De-Persona (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Oakland Museum
103 pages (color)
L A Pop in the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Ayres, Anne/Jay Belloli
144 pages (color)
California Painters/New Work
1989
Hopkins, Henry
143 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Llyn Foulkes The Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Selz, Peter
35 pages
Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Stich, Sidra
280 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
Chouinard: An Art Vision Betrayed: A History of the Chouinard Art Institute
1985
Perine, Robert
260 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
Decade Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Art Center College of Design
108 pages (color)
Southern California Artists 1940-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Ball, Maudette
66 pages (color)
New in the Seventies (Archer Huntington Gallery Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Seabolt, Fred/Donald Goodall
60 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974
Plagens, Peter
200 pages (color)
Separate Realities California Representational Painting/Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Los Angeles Mun Art Gallery
60 pages (color)
The West Coast Now Current Work from the Western Seaboard (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Portland Art Museum
160 pages
40 Now California Painters (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Tampa Bay Art Center
48 pages (color)
The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art
1968
Weller, Allen S
185 pages
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)