thehammermuseum:The Hammer Museum will present a long overdue career retrospective of Llyn Foulkes,
thehammermuseum:The Hammer Museum will present a long overdue career retrospective of Llyn Foulkes, one of the most important and influential yet under-recognized artists working in Los Angeles today, Foulkes’s makes hard-to-categorize work distinguished by its raw, immediate, unfiltered, and visceral qualities. LLYN FOULKES will feature approximately 150 artworks from public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe, some of which have not been seen for decades. The show will explore the entire scope of the artist’s career, including his macabre, emotionally-charged paintings of the early 1960s; his epic rock and postcard paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his “Bloody Head” series of mutilated figures from the late 1970s through the present; and finally his remarkable tableaux that combine painting with woodworking, real clothing, found materials, and thick mounds of modeling paste, seamlessly blended into the painted surface to create pictures with a remarkable illusion of depth. The show will also feature a video of Foulkes playing his Machine, a one-man instrument consisting of cowbells, horns, bass, organ pipes, percussion and more. -- source link
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