| Foulkes’ tableaus may be read as an emotional response to the political and economic climate of our time. Using found objects laminated into the painting surface, Foulkes expresses a sense of an aborted utopia. His unique manipulations of materials and perspective convey a moral imperative to come to terms with extraordinary states of distress and alienation His obsessive painterliness enjoins us to estheticize the extremes of depiction, just at the very moment when we might be groping for psychological or political excuses for such distortions The abruptness or keenness with which images present themselves reflect on the violence and corruption of the late twentieth century. |
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