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Born 1934 Yakima, Washington. Known for: Surreal imagery, assemblage.
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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Keywords (25)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Death Valley, California
Art School
- •Chouinard Art Institute, CalArts, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Walt Disney Studio Artist, Productions/Commissioned
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art