audrey flack

Audrey Flack Born in New York City in 1931, Audrey Flack immediately knew she wanted to become an artist. Despite her family’s lack of enthusiasm about her artistic goals, Flack attended the high school of Music and Art, where she won the St. Gaudens medal. Following graduation from Cooper Union where she was a top student, she was recruited by Josef Albers to participate in the fine arts program at Yale. She received a B.…

…images as “…real yet idealized… the goddesses in every woman.” Unlike other photo-realist painters who claimed that the subject of their work were irrelevant, Flack pursued photographic imagery that communicated a particular sociopolitical point of view. This is what makes her a monumental representation of a personified heroic goddess, because of her intrinsic motivation in her art and her challenging the structures of society that have a foundation built on false conceptions of the past.