Llyn Foulkes
Oakland Art Museum
This is Northern California’s first large-scale showing of the work of one of the most promising young artists on the West Coast. An amazing quality of Llyn Foulkes is his apparently effortless ability to transform an essentially assemblage sensibility into the two-dimensionality of thin paint on canvas. This feat has been accomplished with absolutely no loss of intensity or expressive power. On the contrary, the newer works have a tomb-like finality surpassing the earlier constructions, if for no other reason than because the scabrous materiality of the former works interfered with the ultimate