Film still from Queen of Arts: Audrey Flack. Courtesy of Deborah Shaffer.
Film & Talk | Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
Followed by a conversation with Director Deborah Shaffer
November 1, 6 pm - 7:45 pm
$13 Museum Members | $20 Adults & Resident Passholders | $18 Seniors | $15 Member’s Guest | $10 Students | $5 Children
Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, 2019, 75 min., Directed by Deborah Shaffer.
Join us for a screening of Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, as the Parrish commemorates Flack’s life and career, in conjunction with Audrey Flack: Mid-Century to Post-Pop Baroque, on view from October 13, 2024 through April 6, 2025.
About Audrey Flack
Audrey Flack (1931–2024) was an internationally recognized painter and sculptor and a pioneer of photorealism. Flack taught and lectured extensively both nationally and internationally, was awarded the Augustus St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and was an honorary Albert Dorne Professor at Bridgeport University. Among many major museums around the world, her work also resides in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Butler Institute of American Art, National Gallery of Australia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum, as well as at the Parrish Art Museum. Additionally, she is the first woman artist, along with Mary Cassatt, to be included in Janson’s History of Art text.
About the Film
At 88 years-old, Audrey Flack holds a unique place in the history of contemporary art in America. Feminist, rebel, mother, painter, 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 continues to create, explore, and inspire with her unique style and indomitable spirit. Queen of Hearts follows Flack as she takes her work in a brand-new direction and reveals her long-term struggles as the mother of a child with autism. Flack has something deep and genuine to communicate to the world. She is a provocateur and a rebel, an example and an inspiration. Queen of Hearts is a moving portrait of an artist who is still testing, still experimenting, still searching.
Friday Nights are made possible by support from The Corcoran Group. Support for films at the Parrish is provided in part by Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs.
Film & Talk | Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
Followed by a conversation with Director Deborah Shaffer
November 1, 6 pm - 7:45 pm
$13 Museum Members | $20 Adults & Resident Passholders | $18 Seniors | $15 Member’s Guest | $10 Students | $5 Children
Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, 2019, 75 min., Directed by Deborah Shaffer.
Join us for a screening of Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, as the Parrish commemorates Flack’s life and career, in conjunction with Audrey Flack: Mid-Century to Post-Pop Baroque, on view from October 13, 2024 through April 6, 2025.
About Audrey Flack
Audrey Flack (1931–2024) was an internationally recognized painter and sculptor and a pioneer of photorealism. Flack taught and lectured extensively both nationally and internationally, was awarded the Augustus St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and was an honorary Albert Dorne Professor at Bridgeport University. Among many major museums around the world, her work also resides in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Butler Institute of American Art, National Gallery of Australia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum, as well as at the Parrish Art Museum. Additionally, she is the first woman artist, along with Mary Cassatt, to be included in Janson’s History of Art text.
About the Film
At 88 years-old, Audrey Flack holds a unique place in the history of contemporary art in America. Feminist, rebel, mother, painter, 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 continues to create, explore, and inspire with her unique style and indomitable spirit. Queen of Hearts follows Flack as she takes her work in a brand-new direction and reveals her long-term struggles as the mother of a child with autism. Flack has something deep and genuine to communicate to the world. She is a provocateur and a rebel, an example and an inspiration. Queen of Hearts is a moving portrait of an artist who is still testing, still experimenting, still searching.
Friday Nights are made possible by support from The Corcoran Group. Support for films at the Parrish is provided in part by Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs.
