BOB & BOB 40 Months/40 Stories

Llyn Foulkes

Andrew Berardini

Arts & Photography

M.I.T.B. Press

Catalogue accompanying Kent Fine Art's exhibition Llyn Foulkes: Bloody Heads (October 27 - December, 2011).

Llyn Foulkes: Bloody Heads

Kent Fine Art LLC

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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