Painter and sculptor Audrey Flack is an influential American photorealist, pop artist and feminist. Her life and work were the subject of a 2020 documentary by filmmaker Deborah Shaffer.
Read MoreBorn in Brooklyn in 1933, Flack grew up in New York and continues to live and work there. She studied fine arts at the Cooper Union graduating in 1951, during that time she was immersed in Downtown New York's abstract expressionist scene. She frequented the 8th Street Club and Cedar Tavern, with artists like Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning. This is reflected in Flack's early colourful, expressive yet ordered paintings of the 1940s and early 1950s.
While studying a BFA at Yale University, and later attending the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, her art took a more figurative turn, leading to realistic still lives, portraits and nudes that would evolve into her later seminal photorealistic paintings.
Audrey Flack's website can be found here and Audrey Flack's Instagram can be found here.
Michael Irwin | Ocula | 2021
