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'<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:civitas.jpg|thumb|125px|right|One of the four "Civitas" statues Audrey Flack created for the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina.]] --> '''Audrey Flack''' (born 1931 in [[New York]]) is an American artist known for her pioneering contributions to [[photorealism|photorealist painting]], printmaking, and public sculpture. ==Early life and education== Flack studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953, studying under [[Josef Albers]] among others.<ref name=AAA>{{cite web|title=Audrey Flack papers, circa 1952-2008|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/audrey-flack-papers-15666|work=Archives of American Art|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref> She earned a graduate degree and received an honorary doctorate from [[Cooper Union]] in New York City, and a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] from [[Yale University]]. She studied art history at the [[Institute of Fine Arts]], [[New York University]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web|title=Biography|url=http://www.audreyflack.com/AF/index.php?name=bio|work=Audrey Flack|publisher=audreyflack.com|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref> * 1953 Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY * 1952 BFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT * 1948-51 Cooper Union, New York, NY<ref name=bio /> ==Career==assssssssssd Flack's early work in the 1950s was abstract; one such painting paid tribute to [[Franz Kline]]. The ironic [[kitsch]] themes in her early work influenced [[Jeff Koons]]. But gradually, Flack became a [[Nouveau réalisme|New Realist]] and then evolved into photorealism during the 1960s. She was the first photorealist painter to be added to the collection of the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in 1966.<ref name=JVL>{{cite web|title=Audrey Flack Biography|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Flack.html|work=Jewish Virtual Library|publisher=American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref> The critic Graham Thompson wrote, <blockquote>"One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism, radical realism, or [[Hyperrealism (painting)|hyper-realism]] and painters like [[Richard Estes]], [[Chuck Close]], and Audrey Flack as well, often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs."<ref>Thompson, Graham: ''American Culture in the 1980s'' (Twentieth Century American Culture), Edinburgh University Press, 2007</ref></blockquote> Art critic [[Robert C. Morgan]] writes in ''[[The Brooklyn Rail]]'' about Flack's 2010 exhibition at Gary Snyder Project Space, ''Audrey Flack Paints a Picture'', "She has taken the signs of indulgence, beauty, and excess and transformed them into deeply moving symbols of desire, futility, and emancipation."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Morgan|first=Robert C.|title=Audrey Flack and the Revolution of Still Life Painting|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|year=2010|month=November|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2010/11/artseen/audrey-flack-and-the-revolution-of-still-life-painting}}</ref> Flack has claimed to have found the photorealist movement too restricting, and now gains much of her inspiration from [[baroque]] art. Flack is currently represented by Gary Snyder Gallery. Her work is held 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]], the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]] and the [[National Gallery of Australia]] in [[Canberra, Australia]]. 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]], is currently a visiting professor at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] and has taught and lectured extensively both nationally, and internationally.<ref name=bio /> In 1986 Flack published ''Art & soul: notes on creating'', a book expressing some of her thoughts on being an artist.<ref name="Flack1986">{{cite book|author=Audrey Flack|title=Art & soul: notes on creating|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=m2JPAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=9 April 2013|date=1 October 1986|publisher=Dutton|isbn=978-0-525-24443-1}}</ref> Flack lives and works in New York City and Long Island. bla bla bla ==Legacy and honors== * 2007 Honorary [[Ziegfeld Award]], Keynote Speaker, [[National Art Education Association]], New York City * 2004 Honorary Doctorate, [[Lyme Academy of Art]] * 1995-96 U.S. Government [[National Design for Transportation Award]], presented by [[Jane Alexander]], N.E.A. Chairman, and [[Federico Pena]], [[Secretary of Transportation]], awarded for the Rock Hill Gateway project * 1994 Honorary Professor, [[George Washington University]] * 1989-93 Member of the Board of Directors, [[College Art Association of America]] * 1985 Artist of the Year Award, [[New York City Art Teachers Association]] * 1982 [[Saint-Gaudens Medal]], Cooper Union * 1977 Cooper Union Citation and Honorary Doctorate * 1974 [[Butler Institute of Art]] Award of Merit<ref name=bio /> ==Further reading== Flack, Audrey, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, and Patricia Hills. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24431345 ''Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective 1950-1990'']. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.audreyflack.com/AF/contents.html Audreyflack.com] - Official website *[http://cda.morris.umn.edu/~lamberts/audreyflack/index.html "Audrey Flack: Breaking the Rules"] *[http://www.imamuseum.org/art/collections/artist/flack-audrey-l Audrey Flack in the Indianapolis Museum of Art] *[http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/ngv-collection/artist-a-z?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubmd2LnZpYy5nb3YuYXUlMkZjb2xhcHAlMkZwdWIlMkZhcnRpc3RzJTJGOTYxJTJGZGV0YWlscyZhbGw9MQ%3D%3D Audrey Flack in National Gallery of Victoria] *[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/2867/ Audrey Flack exhibition, the Guggenheim Museum] *[http://blog.aaa.si.edu/2011/03/my-portrait-of-anwar-sadat.html My Portrait of Anwar Sadat] by Audrey Flack, Archives of American Art Blog, Smithsonian Institution {{Authority control|VIAF=95839652}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Flack, Audrey | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American artist | DATE OF BIRTH = 1931 | PLACE OF BIRTH = [[New York]] | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Flack, Audrey}} [[Category:American women artists]] [[Category:20th-century American painters]] [[Category:21st-century American painters]] [[Category:American printmakers]] [[Category:American sculptors]] [[Category:Feminist artists]] [[Category:Yale University alumni]] [[Category:New York University alumni]] [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:University of Pennsylvania staff]] [[Category:Artists from New York]]'