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Suellen Rocca (Suellen Krupp) was born on 2 October, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American artist (1943–2020). Discover Suellen Rocca's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 2 October 1943
Birthday 2 October
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death 2020
Died Place Naperville, Illinois, U.S.
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Her husband is Dennis Rocca (m. 1962-1975)

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1943

Suellen Rocca ( Krupp; October 2, 1943 – March 26, 2020) was an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art.

Suellen Krupp was born in 1943 and grew up in a middle-class, Jewish family.

She 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.

1960

In 1960, at age 16, she began college at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

There, she was heavily influenced by Whitney Halsted and Ray Yoshida.

1962

She married her husband, Dennis Rocca, in 1962.

He brought home jewelry catalogues that informed Rocca's artistic style.

1964

In 1964, she received her BFA from SAIC with a major in painting and a minor in print-making.

Following graduation, she joined The Hairy Who, one of the groups of artists that made up the Chicago Imagists.

Rocca's work is a mix of media and is influenced by her life experiences and interests.

In an article from the Art Institute of Chicago's website on the artist they describe her art with the Hairy Who and individually, "During the Hairy Who years, Rocca’s visual vocabulary expressed her personal taste as much as her experiences as a newlywed and young mother. She 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. Often characterized as “picture writing,” Rocca's work maintains a sense of immediacy. In both its grid-like arrangements of repetitive glyphs punctuated by onomatopoeic words such as ohh, ahh, and eek, and the centrally located imagery framed by decorative borders, Rocca's intuitive and nebulous compositions stand apart from other Hairy Who work."

1965

After her work with The Hairy Who starting in 1965, Rocca had two children and continued her work as an artist.

The show featured Rocca's works made between 1965 and 1969.

1966

She exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center from 1966 through 1969.

She was curator of the art collection and director of exhibitions at Elmhurst College.

1966-1969'' on the Hairy Who in which Suellen Rocca is included.

1970

In 1970, she took a decade away from making art.

1972

Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.

2015

In 2015 she returned to the art world with her exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City.

Rocco was a professor of painting, design, and drawing at Elmhurst College for 18 years.

She was the director of the Art Exhibition and Visiting Artist Program, and the curator and director of exhibitions.

In 2015, Rocca's work was displayed in New York City at Matthew Marks Gallery, her first New York show in over 20 years.

2018

In 2018 the Art Institute of Chicago organized an exhibit entitled ''Hairy Who?

The exhibition Suellen Rocca Drawings at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City displayed drawings made from 1980 to 2018 and ran from September 14, to October 27, 2018.

2019

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.

Rocca's work appeared in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Matthew Marks Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, and various traveling shows.

2020

Rocca died on March 26, 2020, from pancreatic cancer.