Los Angeles based artist Llyn Foulkes sadly passed away last week. An innovative artist and musician, it was always fun to see his work around California.
The painting above, Post Card from Chatsworth, 1984, was on view at Palm Springs Art Museum in 2018.
About the work from the museum-
Foulkes is known for his acerbic perspective, dry humor, and distinctive style that draws from American popular culture. In the 1980s the artist returned to making Post Card paintings, which he originally created in the 1960s. This image of a seemingly desolate landscape features a large rock, an inscription, a post-office cancellation, and small self portrait. In celebrating the grand nature of the American landscape, the oversize format of the postcard also documents the absurdity of our own touristic impulses. Chatsworth is a neighborhood in northwest Los Angeles, but the area had previously been home to Native Americans, and its caves bear markings of rock art formations.