Biography
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Audrey Flack was born in 1931 to a middle-class family. She attended
Music and Art High School in New York City and went on to study at Cooper
Union in the early fifties. At this time, Flack identified as an Abstract
Expressionist and found herself having to be "one of the boys" in order
to fit in. Flack says that she was not treated differently as a woman as
a student, but many artists, students and visitors, could relate to her
only as a woman. They treated her as a sex object, and her goal of becoming
a professional artist was not taken seriously
Flack was rebellious in her art as well as her social attitudes. Following college, she was set on becoming a realist and studied with other like-minded artists. Flack has done some abstract expressionism, self-portraits, and sculptures, but is best known for her revolutionary work in the genre of photorealism. Flack currently lives in New York City with her husband and daughters, Hannah and Melissa. She works mainly in sculpture at this point in her career (audreyflack.com; Gouma-Peterson 6-9; Nemser 261-266) . |