Art Green & Suellen Rocca Imagist Classic Hits, Volume 1
February 23 - March 31, 2007
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Art Green
Magnetic Reaction
1968
oil on canvas
55 1/4 x 43 1/2 inches
Suellen Rocca
Dream Girlc.1968
oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Art Green
Unexpected Payoff1967
oil on canvas
47 x 38 inches
Suellen Rocca
Sleepy-Headc.1968
oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Art Green
Immoderate Abstention1969
oil on canvas
69 x 55 1/2 inches
Suellen Rocca
Orange Handbagc.1968
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Art Green
Questioning Towerc.1965
oil on canvas
33 1/2 x 30 inches
Suellen Rocca
Night Light for Little Girlc.1969
oil on canvas
26 x 19 inches
Art Green
Advanced Dichotomy1968
oil on canvas
44 x 36 inches
Suellen Rocca
OHH!c.1968
oil on canvas
20 x 10 inches
Art Green
Gloveboxes1969
oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 32 1/2 inches
Suellen Rocca
Palm Fingerc.1968
oil on canvas
20.5 x 16.5 inches
Art Green
Florid Discomfiture1968
oil on canvas
42.75 x 42.25 inches
Suellen Rocca
Game Page with Bowling Trophyc.1968
ink glossy paper
12.5 x 9 inches
Art Green
Immoderate Abstention1969
oil on canvas
69 x 55 1/2 inches
Art Green
Untitled1969
ballpoint on paper
Art Green
Solitary Confinement1975
oil on canvas
72 x 50 inches
Art Green
Circumstantial Evidence1977
oil on canvas
64 x 51 inches
Press Release
The debut of a new series of exhibits exploring the rich history of Chicago Imagist art, this show focuses on two seminal figures from the original Hairy Who exhibition group. Suellen Rocca’s daring, rich drawings and paintings manipulate and recontextualize a set of repeated icons – palm trees, women’s handbags, disarticulated limbs, dancing couples, diamond rings – in dynamic, dense and highly complex fields. Green’s paintings are also spectacular feats of compositional prowess, with perspectival nods at de Chirico and a hilarious undercurrent of visual jokes and puzzles. IMAGIST CLASSIC HITS VOL. 1 presents works from the formative period of each artist, including pieces from the original 1966-67 Hairy Who shows.