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Delve into the postwar Los Angeles art world in this online archive, which provides additional material related to the exhibitions on view at the Getty Center. Learn about hipsters and happenings, and the venues across the city where all the action took place through images from the archives and first-hand accounts with the artists.

Flanders

Flanders

Flanders, 1961–62, Llyn Foulkes. Mixed media. 54 x 36 x 14 in. and 16 x 15 3/4 in. Collection of Ernest & Eunice White. © Llyn Foulkes. Photo © Douglas M. Parker Studio

Since the late 1950s, Llyn Foulkes has produced richly textured works that incorporate collage, drawing, text, and found materials. In the two-part assemblage Flanders, one of 92 works included in Foulkes’s solo exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1962, an amorphous mass of melted plastic tarp lurches from the picture plane into the space of the viewer. Refusing to settle comfortably within the categories of painting or sculpture, Flanders is typical of Foulkes’s engagement with the precariousness of picture making as a physical undertaking and as a representational proposition. It relates to the abstract-expressionist influence of Richards Ruben, one of Foulkes’s teachers at Chouinard Art Institute, as well as to the Beat aesthetic of assemblage and the dark preoccupations of surrealism.

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  • Thomas Leavitt, Llyn Foulkes, and Walter Hopps

    Thomas Leavitt, Llyn Foulkes, and Walter Hopps at the opening of Foulkes's exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum, September 18, 1962. Image courtesy of and © Llyn Foulkes

  • Llyn Foulkes at Pasadena Art Museum

    Llyn Foulkes stands by his work Flanders (1960–62) at the opening of his solo exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum, September 18, 1962. Image courtesy of and © Llyn Foulkes