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Suellen Rocca, the artist’s first monograph, presents her paintings, drawings, and prints from the 1960s. During this period Rocca was a member of the Hairy Who, a group of six Chicago artists whose energetic work has provoked generations of artists in Chicago and beyond. 
Rocca’s work is notable for its unique visual language — a vocabulary of pictographic imagery inspired by consumer catalogues, magazine advertisements, and children’s activity books. In her 1965 painting Bare Shouldered Beauty and the Pink Creature, for example, feminine silhouettes share the canvas with an array of engagement rings, ice cream cones, television sets, and dresses. Rocca strived to capture what she calls “the cultural icons of beauty and romance expressed by the media that promised happiness to young women of that generation. This was the culture that surrounded me.”

━ Size : 23 x 29 cm
━ pages : 104