Suellen Rocca, a founding member of the short-lived but influential 1960s Chicago art group the Hairy Who and a fiercely original artist whose hieroglyphic, phantasmagoric work poked a finger in the eye of late-20th-century modernist purities, died on March 26 at a hospice in Naperville, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. She was 76. Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, which represents her, said the cause was pancreatic cancer. He added: “Why are they so repulsive? Are they all equally repulsive?

Source: New York Times April 04, 2020 18:32 UTC