Force of Nature
May
26
to Jun 24

Force of Nature

A catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition “Audrey Flack: Force of Nature” organized by Hollis Taggart, New York, and presented from May 26–June 24, 2022.

Opening Reception 5-8pm, May 26th

521 West 26th Street

New York, NY 10001

RSVP REQUIRED: rsvp@hollistaggart.com or +1 212 628 4000

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OLD MASTERS / NEW MASTERS
Apr
30
to Sep 24

OLD MASTERS / NEW MASTERS

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Audrey Flack
Adrian Ghenie
Slawomir Elsner

In dialogue with Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach

Art historical traditions culminate and come together in the Renaissance. At the same time, the individual moves into the focus of artistic practice. Three contemporary artists deal with the Renaissance and some of its most prominent pictorial inventions.

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AUDREY FLACK: AFTER CRIVELLI
Feb
22
to May 28

AUDREY FLACK: AFTER CRIVELLI

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“He’s my family, Crivelli. When I first saw his Pieta I wanted a picture of it and went to the Met book store that was only a small room then. There were no pictures, he was in no art history books, nothing. You couldn’t see anything of Crivelli. Years later I wrote a paper on Crivelli that was published in Arts Magazine and Colin Eisler said one of his students read that paper and did her thesis on Crivelli. I was amazed that it had such an effect.” -Audrey Flack

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GODDESSES HERE AND NOW - Audrey Flack & Amy Zerner
Oct
3
to Oct 18

GODDESSES HERE AND NOW - Audrey Flack & Amy Zerner

AUDREY FLACK

Audrey Flack is a truly groundbreaking artist, world famous for her Photorealist paintings and monumental sculptures. Her public commissions have transformed city spaces with compelling depictions of powerful female figures.

Her brilliant new series of enhanced, hand drawn, multi-media images are available here for the first time. Flack continues to resurrect goddesses who have been maligned for centuries. She creates beautiful paintings, works on paper, and sculpture of iconic female deities as varied as Medea and Marilyn Monroe. Flack creates works of art that heal the confused and damaged psyche of today’s world.

Audrey Flack was the first woman to be included in Janson’s History of Art and was the first Photorealist acquired by MoMA. Her work is in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The recent documentary “Audrey Flack: Queen of Hearts” opened in November at DOC NYC and won two awards at the Hamptons Doc Fest. The film continues to win awards and it currently being shown throughout the country. It captures Flack’s struggles and accomplishments as an artist, woman, mother, and teacher.

AMY ZERNER

Amy Zerner’s pioneering Magic Surrealism fabric collage tapestries were recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts when she was awarded a major fellowship in the category of Painting, bridging the gap between fine art and fine craft.

The exotic images that Zerner conjures in her mixed-media collages are infused with spiritual symbolism, mystical philosophies, ancient myths and other life-affirming multi-cultural stories. This exhibition will feature new work and a selection of never-before-shown pieces.

Zerner’s unique art is filled with dream-like images of archetypal goddesses, sacred sanctuaries and secret gardens. The carefully assembled materials – with hand-painted fabrics, altered and recycled ornamentation, luminous colorations, textures and vintage embellishments - create landscapes of the soul: lush and detailed art made even more opulent with many layers of magic and meaning.


Like her long-time friend and mentor, Audrey Flack, Amy Zerner, too, is a multi-disciplinary artist. For twenty years, she has had her own collection of elaborate one-of-a-kind jackets, coats and caftans sold exclusively by Bergdorf Goodman. The best-selling metaphysical books, illustrated oracles, tarot decks and meditation tools that she has created with her author husband, Monte Farber have inspired millions around the world.

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Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, In collaboration with O Cinema
Feb
23
11:30 AM11:30

Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, In collaboration with O Cinema

Co-presented with O Cinema,  Art Films presents the best of films, by and about artists paired with food & mimosas, followed by a post-film discussion.

This edition will feature a screening of Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, with artist Audrey Flack and the film’s co-director/producer Deborah Shaffer in attendance for a Q&A with Oolite Arts President/CEO Dennis Scholl.

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All of Them Witches: Exhibition at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery
Feb
8
to Apr 11

All of Them Witches: Exhibition at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery

All of Them Witches: Exhibition at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery
Organized by Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons

This exhibition arose from a conversation we’ve been having for years about our shared affinity for a certain kind of art to which we’re drawn, can’t quite name, but recognize when we see it. Artworks and artists that share an affinity with what we thought of as a “witchy” sensibility, which we see as using the iconography of the supernatural, occult, and witchcraft to channel ideas about power, the body, and gender.

The conversation began because Laurie was aware of Dan’s interest in the history of graphic art and his insatiable desire to discover new work—often by lesser known artists. She introduced him to the work of Austė Peciura who showed her work in the adjacent gallery when Laurie had her first show at Artists Space in 1979. Discussing Austė led us to the mid-century gothic drawing and filmmaking, from Edward Gorey to Alfred Hitchcock, and that got us thinking about the work of contemporary artists who stirred up some of the same feelings; we discovered a shared passion for the paintings of Ellen Berkenblit, the sculptures of Niki de Saint Phalle, and the photography of Deborah Turbeville. This constellation of artists became the center of an ongoing game, a list to which we would add and subtract whenever we met.

This is how All Of Them Witches was born, though it was many months before we had the idea for an exhibition and longer still before there was a concept and a title. The essence of the work seems to emanate from women, though there are certainly male and non-binary artists whose works fit the bill. The art touches on spells and incantations, wishes and curses, though it needs a dose of adolescence to make sense in the context we’ve created. This crosses into works about or employing notions of gender, puberty, sex, the historical occult, cartoons, ritual, landscape, and fantasy. This iconography offers a recognizable foothold for makers and viewers alike in otherwise traditionally challenging subject matter and allusive poetics. This was the matrix we used to discern artists who shared an affinity with what we thought of as a “witchy” sensibility.

While we respect the history and context of real-practice occult, this is a show about the aesthetic influence of those traditions, not the actual practice behind it. Multiple generations and media will be present, from painting (Hollis Sigler, Gertrude Abercrombie), drawing (Heather Benjamin, Cameron), sculpture (Audrey Flack, Greer Lankton), videos (Marilyn Minter’s Green Caviar), and photographs (Cindy Sherman, Bea Nettles).

In a time of constant historical and thematic artistic rediscoveries, we present a breadcrumb trail that already exists—a shared language across generations of artists who share in a knowledge of, and taste for, a bit of the cauldron and a touch of darkness.

-Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons, October 2019

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DOC NYC - QUEEN OF HEARTS: AUDREY FLACK
Nov
9
to Nov 14

DOC NYC - QUEEN OF HEARTS: AUDREY FLACK

NYC PREMIERE: DOC NYC alumna Deborah Shaffer, with co-director Rachel Reichman, offers an intimate look at the life and creative process of visual artist Audrey Flack. Feminist, rebel, mother, sculptor and teacher, Audrey’s often controversial 40-year career evolved from abstract expressionism in the 1950s to photorealism in the 1970s. One of the first women ever included in the famed Janson’s History of Art, Audrey, at 88, is still creating, exploring and inspiring with her unique style and indomitable spirit.

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Panel Discussion - How the Artist is Redefining Herself
Oct
22
6:00 PM18:00

Panel Discussion - How the Artist is Redefining Herself

“How the Artist is Redefining Herself” will explore the professional experiences of women artists spanning several generations.

Curator Heather Zises, editor of 50 Contemporary Women Artists, will moderate the panel of distinguished artists, including Audrey Flack, Barbara Segal, Maria Kozak, Jane Lafarge Hamill, and Babette Bloch, as they address cultural shifts experienced throughout their careers.

From Women’s Liberation to #MeToo, each panelist will offer her unique perspective on what it means to be a “woman artist” today.

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Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards
Mar
5
6:00 PM18:00

Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards

The Guild Hall presents an exciting and glamorous evening at the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Plaza, where they will be honoring artists and philanthropists whose work has consistently inspired and touched us. The night is hosted by artist Eric Fischl, Academy President, along with Iris Smyles. This year the Academy will honor Audrey Flack (Visual Arts) presented by David Brigham, Gail Sheehy (Literary Arts) presented by Tom Wolfe, and Harris Yulin (Performing Arts) presented by Alec Baldwin. Sheri Sandler will receive the Special Award. Live performances by GE Smith and Audrey Flack's, The History of Art Band.

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The Future of Art
Dec
1
6:00 PM18:00

The Future of Art

"The Future of Art" is a panel discussion about the current state of the art market, regarding the financial pressures that have come to dominate the art world. Audrey Flack will be in conversation with a collector and art dealer at the St. Etienne Gallery.

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ECSTASY: BARPQUE AND BEYOND
Sep
16
to Feb 25

ECSTASY: BARPQUE AND BEYOND

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Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond brings together older depictions of ecstasy with more recent works focused on the transcendence of normal consciousness, including trances, moments of expanded awareness, and visionary insight.  From representations of saints and mystics, to dreamscapes and images of bacchanalian revels, this exhibition explores how Baroque style – characterized by exaggeration, high drama, extravagance, frenzy, and excess – continues to inform contemporary art.

(UQ Art Museum Press Release)

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From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today
Aug
6
to Jan 21

From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today

From Lens to Eye to Hand reexamines this important movement in contemporary art that found its roots in the late 1960s in California and New York and continues today. Photorealism reintroduced what many considered to be straightforward representation into an art world more attuned to the burgeoning conceptual framework of artistic practice coming out of Pop and into Minimalism, Land Art, and Performance Art. Open now to public at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York.

(Parrish Art Museum Press Release)

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ABOUT FACE
Jul
28
to Sep 17

ABOUT FACE

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ABOUT FACE, includes sculpture, paintings, and photographs, bringing celebrated artists, many from the East End, together with emerging artists to examine the diverse ways human beings are presented in portraiture today.

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Photorealism: 50 years of Hyperrealistic Painting
Jul
13
to Oct 22

Photorealism: 50 years of Hyperrealistic Painting

Photorealism: 50 years of Hyperrealistic Painting traces the evolution of Photorealism from 1960 to today. The exhibition presents the work of some 30 artists known for their hyperrealistic depictions of ordinary objects and scenes of everyday life such as American diners, chrome features on cars and motorcycles, as well as meticulous portraits. Photorealism: 50 years of Hyperrealistic Painting features three generations of photorealist painters including Audrey Flack and many others. The Tampa Museum of Art is the only American venue on the international tour of Photorealism: 50 years of Hyperrealistic Painting, organized by the Institut für Kulturaustausch in Tübingen, Germany.

(Tampa Art Museum Press Release)

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MOLLY BARNES LUNCHTIME LECTURE
Mar
9
12:00 PM12:00

MOLLY BARNES LUNCHTIME LECTURE

Audrey Flack is a pioneer of Photorealism and a nationally recognized painter and sculptor. The first women artists to be listed in Janson’s History of Art were Audrey Flack and Mary Cassatt. Flack’s work is in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the National Museum of Art in Australia.

Audrey Flack will be lecturing as a part of the Molly Barnes Lunchtime Lecture Series. It will be held at the Roger Smith Hotel in NYC on 501 Lexington Avenue.

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WCA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Feb
18
7:30 PM19:30

WCA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

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Audrey Flack will be receiving the WCA Lifetime Achievement Award. They were first presented in 1979 in President Jimmy Cater’s Oval Office to Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and Georgia O’Keeffe. The Awards were the first awards recognizing the contribution of women to the arts and their profound effect on society. Today, the Awards continue to honor women, their work, their vision and their commitment.

The free and open ceremony begins seating at 7:30pm and will begin at 8:00pm.

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