1. Suellen Rocca was an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art.
12 Facts About Suellen Rocca
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Suellen Rocca exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center from 1966 through 1969.
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Suellen Rocca was curator of the art collection and director of exhibitions at Elmhurst College.
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Suellen Rocca began attending classes at the Art Institute of Chicago when she was in elementary school and knew she wanted to be an artist from the age of eight.
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Suellen Rocca brought home jewelry catalogues that informed Rocca's artistic style.
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Suellen Rocca was the director of the Art Exhibition and Visiting Artist Program, and the curator and director of exhibitions.
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Suellen Rocca's image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.
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Suellen Rocca's work is a mix of media and is influenced by her life experiences and interests.
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Suellen Rocca employed signs and symbols drawn from everything from the rebus-like pictograms in kindergarten reading primers to the jewelry trade catalogs in her husband's family's store.
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In 2015, Suellen Rocca's work was displayed in New York City at Matthew Marks Gallery, her first New York show in over 20 years.
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Suellen Rocca was the curator for the exhibition The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection at the Elmhurst Art Museum which ran September 8-January 13,2019.
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Suellen Rocca's work appeared in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Matthew Marks Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, and various traveling shows.