Audrey Flack is a contemporary American artist known for her pioneering Photorealist sculptures and paintings. In works such as Wheel of Fortune (Vanitas) (1977–1978), Flack merges the excess of consumer culture with a skull similar to those found in 17th-century Flemish still-life paintings. “I always wanted to draw realistically,” she has explained. “For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement.” Born on May 30, 1931 in New York, NY, she studied at the Cooper Union and later under Josef Albers at the Yale School of Art. Returning to New York, she became of a part of the milieu...