{"id":1008,"date":"2014-07-15T20:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T03:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkinggrid.com\/dev\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2014-07-15T20:02:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T03:02:42","slug":"llyn-foulkes-rockin-hammer-soon-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/llyn-foulkes-rockin-hammer-soon-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Llyn Foulkes: ROCKIN’ The Hammer and SOON NYC!"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Stay tuned for more updates on Llyn Foulkes and his upcoming exhibition in NYC!)<\/p>\n

Last night I had the pleasure and privilege of tripping into the museum on whim and walking on on the super-star artist, Mr. Llyn Foulkes<\/a> giving a talk to the Hammer’s Museum Fellows.<\/p>\n

I slipped right into the group and I got a good scoop, good taste, a sampling of Foulkes’s unique personality: bristling with\u00a0sparkling\u00a0genius, totally frustrated with others for not being geniuses, like him. \u00a0Yet, delighted with himself for being so superlatively gifted as to be a little scary<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0In other words, a formidable person capable of laser slicing a faulty concept to its quick.<\/p>\n

Listening to him to talk about his work, I quickly realized the gulf of experience between this great artist and myself. \u00a0HIS TECHNIQUE is all consuming madness. \u00a0IT IS PURE craft, requiring muscle, brains, and relentless WORK!!! \u00a0(Honestly, I do NOT have the raw LOVE of labor, clearly revealed by Foulkes’s discussion of his rummaging in the world of found-object and eerie transformation of the real-life taxidermic cat or rubber dildo installed in work that inhabits the same general space (wall) of a painting and tricks the casual lazy viewing into believing it is cute, fun, and almost silly cartoonish work. \u00a0Hah! \u00a0The joke’s on anybody that falls for it!<\/p>\n

Foulkes’s work is aggressively loaded with message. \u00a0DE-PROGRAM yourself! \u00a0DE-CODE the lies taught to us, collectively, by big corporate sponsors and specifically, the DISNEY empire which in Foulkes’s accurate yet imaginative representation of a gun-dreaming American society is the source of much evil. \u00a0The recent work shouts.<\/p>\n

His coded visual messages have evolved to this intensity of volume over decades of indefatigable work.<\/p>\n

Geez\u2026\u00a0Foulkes is to a life-long semi-professional “hobby,” artist like me, Frau Kolb a demigod.<\/p>\n

Here he is:<\/p>\n

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(Stay tuned for more updates on Llyn Foulkes and his upcoming exhibition in NYC!) Last night I had the pleasure and privilege of tripping into the museum on whim and walking on on the super-star artist, Mr. Llyn Foulkes giving a talk to the Hammer’s Museum Fellows. I slipped right into the group and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museum-visits","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/600.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}