A photo-realist painter of popular images, Audrey Flack was committed to the idea that the greatest art is that which can be understood by the masses of people. She had major influence in the revitalizing of still-life subjects in the 1970s and 1980s, and unlike most photo-realist painters was emotionally committed to her subject matter. She regarded emotional commitment as part of being feminine, something of which she is proud.

Flack was one of the first painters to acknowledge that she referred to photographs when painting and would project photos from slides onto her canvases, painting over the images. She began working in a representational style when Abstract Expressionism was dominating the art world. She is especially committ...