Farb Family Portrait

Born in New York, multidisciplinary artist Audrey Flack is best known for photorealistic paintings that closely replicate the quality of photographic images. After studying at Cooper Union, Yale, New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, and the Art Students League in the 1950s, Flack moved from an abstract expressionist style toward the figurative painting for which she is known today. This evolution permitted her better to communicate her social and political commentary. In the early 1980s, Flack began working primarily in sculpture, employing symbolic and mythological imagery to embody a feminist message. A painter of remarkable technical proficiency, Flack has had numerous solo exhibitions, and, since the 1960s, her work has been collected by some of the foremost national art museums.