Audrey Flack
Audrey Flack was born in 1931 in New York (of course). She holds a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. She attended New York University's Institute of Fine Arts where she studied the history of art. Originally, her work was abstract (probably in an attempt to branch out and become her own person, apart from all the paintings she was studying in art history) Gradually, however, Flack's work became more and more realistic, until she crossed that final threshold into photorealism.
Audrey Flack was born in 1931 in New York (of course). She holds a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. She attended New York University's Institute of Fine Arts where she studied the history of art. Originally, her work was abstract (probably in an attempt to branch out and become her own person, apart from all the paintings she was studying in art history) Gradually, however, Flack's work became more and more realistic, until she crossed that final threshold into photorealism.
She was awarded the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and the honorary Albert Dome professorship from Bridgeport University. She is an honorary professor at George Washington University, and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Flack has taught and lectured extensively both nationally, and internationally.
A pioneer of Photorealism and a nationally recognized painter and sculptor, Ms. Flack's work is in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Museum of Art in Canberra, Australia. She was the first photorealist painter to have work purchased by the Museum of Modern Art.
Flack received a lot of negative criticism for her large-scale photorealistic paintings in the seventies. Critics called them feministic and too personal, since Flack would paint the things that surrounded her as well as the people who were personally important to her. The bright colors and high gloss medium she was using also sparked a constant flow of negative comments from her art "superiors." However, she was soon accepted into the realist world. She has since become one of the most important and influential artists in her field, simply for sticking to her guns and being who she is. Go Audrey!
Flack received a lot of negative criticism for her large-scale photorealistic paintings in the seventies. Critics called them feministic and too personal, since Flack would paint the things that surrounded her as well as the people who were personally important to her. The bright colors and high gloss medium she was using also sparked a constant flow of negative comments from her art "superiors." However, she was soon accepted into the realist world. She has since become one of the most important and influential artists in her field, simply for sticking to her guns and being who she is. Go Audrey!
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