His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, and others. He has exhibited his work extensively including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City and the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a National Endowment Grant in 1986 and received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in art in 2008. His art awards include a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 1977 and a New Talent Purchase Grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He he still performs with The Machine regularly on the West Coast and has released a CD of original compositions. Put all these things in a meat grinder and its a no-brainer that Foulkes stands apart from the Ferus brethren in this feature documentary film.
By 1979, Foulkes had returned to his childhood interest in one-man bands and began playing solo with "The Machine," which he created. In the film, Foulkes has the charisma of Robin Williams, the looks of Clint Eastwood, the neurosis of Woody Allen and a singer/songwriter voice of Tom Waits. He played drums with City Lights from 1965 to 1971, and formed his own band, The Rubber Band, in 1973, which stayed together until 1977. He works in assemblage, 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. Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty’s documentary, Llyn Foulkes One Man Band, focuses on the life and work of 78 year old painter and musician Llyn Foulkes.As the film engages in the history of the artist, we watch as he works on numerous pieces, including The Lost Frontier, a painting eight years in the making (and one that, like most of his pieces, isn’t so much finished as taken away. In 1956 attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Between 1954 and '56 he served in the US Army in Germany. He attended the University of Washington and Central Washington College in 1953-54. Llyn Foulkes One Man Band was part of the official selection of the Los Angeles Film Festival 2013, and now its time for us to enjoy it at some of the.
His work exhibited two years ago at Hammer Museum of Los Angeles and it was a huge success. Llyn Foulkes wa born in 1934 in Yakima, Washington. Check out Llyn Foulkes One Man Band to find out why he got discovered at the age of 77.