Dream Girl

Name/Title

Dream Girl

Entry/Object ID

2011.06

Description

Fragmented images: a torso, arms, a green bag, legs, and fingers.

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment

Made/Created

Artist

Rocca, Suellen

Date made

1968

Ethnography

Notes

N.A., U.S. North America United States Chicago

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

PAINTINGS

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall; canvas

Width

48 in

Length

60 in

Dimension Description

in frame

Width

48-3/4 in

Depth

2-1/2 in

Length

60-5/8 in

Exhibitions

Afterimage
Re:Chicago

Interpretative Labels

Label

Rocca’s 1968 Dream Girl explores a world of teenage preoccupations with body image, accessories, and fashion trends. Rocca presented her vision with a dizzying richness of forms and ingenious compositional devices like the divided picture field and the shifting scale of body images such as feet, hands, legs, and a large torso in the upper section of the composition. In the top corners are sleeping heads laid on pillows, indicating the importance of dreams as sources of the artist’s imagery and subjective concerns. Rocca’s inventive employment of this personal content gives her work an affable and good-natured charm despite its occasionally alarming details. – Dennis Adrian, from "Re: Chicago"

Label

Dream Girl 1968 Fragmented images: a torso, arms, a green bag, legs, and fingers.