STUDIO F

Audrey Flack

2004

Audrey Flack's work has always been close to the heart. She upends both correct decorum of the avant-garde and aspirations to upper class good taste. Staying on the edge of sentimentality, kitsch, propaganda and mock-heroics, she achieves artistic honesty, an art of immense power, and very personal monumentality.

Audrey Flack is one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century. Flack was born in New York City in 1931. As a child in the big city of New York, little Audrey Flack wanted to be an artist. Later in life, she was noted of saying, "Art is a powerful force in this world, and it is the visual representation of what we think and what we feel, and how we think and how we feel."

After graduating college at the top of her class at The Cooper Union, she proceeded to study art in the fine arts program at Yale completed her B.F.A. in 1952. After Yale, Flack decided to move back to New York and study anatomy at the Art Students League. Audrey Flack's art doesn't just stop on the canvas; she is not only a painter, but also a sculptor and a photographer. The quality of her work, however, has not been compromised by her creating art in more than one medium. She has won worldwide recognition for all her artwork. She has painted and sculpted many powerful images of women and incorporated the strength of women in all of her work.

Her work is in numerous major public collections in the US and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney, Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum in New York City, Albright-Knox, Buffalo, New York, National Museum of American Art and Smithsonian, Wash DC, Australian National Gallery and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia and most recently at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. She has also received an Honorary Doctorate from Lyme Academy of Art.

Flack used the image of her full size bronze sculpture Bella Apollonia (exhibited at Tampa Museum of Art 2004-05) in her design of the 2004 monoprints she created for STUDIO-f. The screen monoprints emphasize bust and torso images of the figure with various backgrounds including the Last Judgment, angels and Medusa details. The momoprints come alive with vibrant hand colored details and some glitter.

Flack currently lives and works, mainly in sculpture at this point in her career, in New York and is visiting professor and lecturer at universities and colleges throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Studio F