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Only in the darkest moments of our lives do thebrightest stars appear.

An artist, mother, teacher, and rebel, Audrey Flack is countedamong the most important American artists of the twentieth century.In With Darkness Came Stars, she recounts and reflectsupon a life fully lived.

Flack came up in the New York art scene when the city was fastbecoming a world arts center. She had a studio in the Bowery andfrequented the Cedar Tavern, where she rubbed elbows with JacksonPollock, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, and othergiants of the Abstract Expressionist movement. After leaving thatscene and starting a family, she spearheaded Photorealist painting,alongside the likes of Chuck Close and Richard Estes.

Flack has lived a remarkable life, successfully navigating avibrant and virulently sexist art world, escaping an abusivemarriage, and reshaping the rules of art creation in the middle ofthe twentieth century-all while raising two children, one withsevere autism. Her story is full of strife and striving, but as anartist, Flack has always been able to find the beauty in it.

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