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Audrey Flack    (American, 1931)

 Audrey Flack - Invocation (Paintings) h: 64 x w: 80 in / h: 162.6 x w: 203.2 cm
Audrey Flack
Invocation 1982
 
 Audrey Flack - Marilyn: Golden Girl (Paintings) h: 48 x w: 62 in / h: 121.9 x w: 157.5 cm
Audrey Flack
Marilyn: Golden Girl 1978
 
 Audrey Flack - Queen (Paintings) h: 80 x w: 80 in / h: 203.2 x w: 203.2 cm
Audrey Flack
Queen 1976
 
 Audrey Flack - Shiva (Paintings) h: 36 x w: 50 in / h: 91.4 x w: 127 cm
Audrey Flack
Shiva 1972-1973
 
  

Biography
1931 Born: New York, NY
1948 - 1951 Cooper Union, New York, NY
1952 BFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1953 Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY
1960 - 1968 Professor at New York University, New York, NY
1970 - 1974 Taught at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1985 Artist of the Year Award, New York City Art Teachers Association
1990 - 1994 Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Awarded Honorary Professor, George Washington University
2004 Honorary Doctorate, Lyme Academy of Art
2005 Visiting Professor, Studio Art School International, Florence, Italy
2007 Honorary Ziegfeld Award, Keynote Speaker, National Art Education Association, New York, NY

Exhibitions
2009 Figure 8 - Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York, NY
Picturing America: Fotorealismus der 70er Jahre - Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
2008 Audrey Flack: From Abstract Expressionism to Photorealism, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
2007 Plasters and Disasters - Audrey Flack's Recent Sculpture, Kingsborough Community College, NY (solo)
Audrey Flack: Abstract Expressionist, Rider University Art Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ (solo)
Daphne Speaks: An Exhibition of Sculpture and Master Workshop Prints, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (solo)
2002 Drawings, Watercolors and Sculptures - Responses to 9/11, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY (solo)
2001 Plein Air Watercolors and Drawings, Bernaducci-Meisel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1999 Icons of the 20th Century, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (solo)
1998 Audrey Flack - New Work, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1997 - 1998 Table Tops: Morandi's Still Lifes to Mapplethorpe's Flower Studies, California Center for the Arts Museum Escondido, CA
1996 Audrey Flack: Daphne Speaks, Guild Hall Museum East Hampton, NY
1995 Audrey Flack-A 20-Year Survey, Louis K. Meisel Gallery New York, NY
1992 - 1993 Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, A Retrospective 1950-1990, traveling exhibition Wight Art Museum, Butler Institute, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Speed Art Museum
1991 - 1992 Six Takes on Photo-Realism, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1991 Audrey Flack: Islandia, Goddess of the Healing Waters, The Parrish Art Museum Southampton, NY
A Pantheon of Female Deities, Louis K. Meisel Gallery New York, NY
1986 Sacred Images in Secular Art, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1983 Audrey Flack The Early Years 1953-1968, Armstrong Gallery New York, NY
1981 Seven Photorealists From New York Collections, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1974 New Photo-Realism, Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford, CT
1973 American Drawings 1963-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery,University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts,Washington, DC
New York University Collections, New York, NY
Riverside Museum, New York, NY
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Stuart M. Speiser Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, GA
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum,Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Literature
1996 Strassfield, Christina Mossaides and Korn, Henry. Daphne Speaks, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY (catalogue)
Jones, Arthur, F. Love Conquers All, Art Museum of West Virginia (catalogue)
Ramlijac, Susanne. "Divine Flesh", Artopia Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
1995 - 1996 Shaw, Reesey. Narcism, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA. Illustrated (catalogue)
In Three Dimensions, Snug Harbor Museum, Staten Island, NY
1992 Gouma-Peterson, Thalia. Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, A Retrospective 1950-1990, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
1990 Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective 1950-1990, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
1986 Janson, H.W. History of Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY (first revised edition)
Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art, (third edition), Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
1981 Flack, Audrey. Audrey Flack On Painting, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York
1980 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York
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