Audrey Flack
(American, born 1931)
Biography
Audrey Flack is a contemporary American artist known for her pioneering Photorealist sculptures and paintings. In works such as Wheel of Fortune (Vanitas) (1977–1978), Flack merges the excess of consumer culture with a skull similar to those found in 17th-century Flemish still-life paintings. “I always wanted to draw realistically,” she has explained. “For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement.” Born on May 30, 1931 in New York, NY, she studied at the Cooper Union and later under Josef Albers at the Yale School of Art. Returning to New York, she became of a part of the milieu of Abstract Expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. During the early part of her career Flack’s works were abstractions of color and line. It was not until the 1970s that the artist began to produce paintings based on images she found in the news as well as art historical figures such as Tintoretto. The artist has mainly focused on sculpture since the mid-1980s, creating monumental depictions of powerful female figures from history and mythology. She continues to live and work between New York and East Hampton, NY. Today, Flack’s works are held in the collections of the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among others.
Audrey Flack Artworks
Audrey Flack
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.jpg "Kraaaak (Magneto Victorius), 2023")
.jpg "Audrey Flack On Painting (hand signed, dated , 1981")
English (US)
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