Cheryl Laemmle

Targets by Cheryl Laemmle, 1992, oil on canvas, Honolulu Museum of Art

Cheryl Laemmle (born 1947[1]) is an American contemporary surrealist painter of figures, animals, and imaginary landscapes.

Biography

She is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota who received her bachelor's degree from Humboldt State University in 1974 and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Washington State University in 1978. She was the recipient of a Creative Artists Public Service Program Fellowship in 1980, the Vera G. List Award for distinguished achievement in the visual arts in 1984, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1985. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows both in the United States and abroad;[2] she was one of twenty-four artists to represent the United States at the 1984 Venice Biennale.[3]

Laemmle's style has been described both as surrealism[4] and as magic realism.[5] Targets, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the artist's style. The Fogg Art Museum,[6] the Honolulu Museum of Art,[7] the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art,[8] the Birmingham Museum of Art,[9] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[10] the Walker Art Gallery,[11] KMAC Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art,[12] are among the public collections holding works by Cheryl Laemmle.

Exhibitions

Laemmle's work[1] is in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Laemmle's solo exhibitions include P.S. 1 Special Projects Room (1980) in Long Island, Texas Gallery (1982) in Houston, and Barbara Toll Fine Arts (1983) in New York.[13]

Her work, Monkey with Angel, (1982) in the Fogg Art Museum was influenced by her time spent in the Adirondacks, the toys her grandfather carved for her out of birch, as well as Joseph Cornell's box assemblages.

Reviews

The New York Times art critic John Russell reviewed[14] Laemmle's work in a March 19, 1982 issue about the "New Work/ New York[15]'' exhibit at the New Museum.

Recognition

Laemmle has received a variety of awards,[1] including Creative Artists Public Service Program Fellowship (1980), Vera G. List Award, for distinguished achievement in the visual arts (1984), and National Endowment for the Arts grant (1985).

Personal life

Cheryl Laemmle is married[16] to Michael Lucero, a New York ceramic sculptor. Laemmle and Lucero were both close to the Vogels, an art collecting couple, as they collected at least twenty works by Laemmle. Laemmle painted Pek for Herb - Happy Birthday as a gift to Herbert Vogel.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Cheryl Laemmle - Biography". www.rogallery.com. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  2. ^ Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
  3. ^ Shamam, Sanford Sivitz (1989). Robert Yarber Paintings: 1980–1988, Palmer Museum of Art. ISBN 0-911209-39-5.
  4. ^ Ro Gallery, New York City
  5. ^ Artforum, "Cheryl Laemmle, Terry Dintenfass, Inc.", May, 1991, p. 147
  6. ^ Harvard. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Untitled". Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  7. ^ Targets, 1992, oil on canvas, accession 2018-4-05
  8. ^ "The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Rhode Island". MutualArt. Archived from the original on 2019-11-01.
  9. ^ "Untitled | Birmingham Museum of Art". www.artsbma.org. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  10. ^ "Cheryl Laemmle - Stockton (From the American Decoy Series) - The Met". Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  11. ^ Art, Walker. "Cheryl Laemmle — Collections — Walker Art Center". Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  12. ^ "Whitney Museum of American Art: Cheryl Laemmle". Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  13. ^ America *~.*, Haoyan of (2018-05-04). "Sharpe Gallery, Cheryl Laemmle, Folded Car, 1984". Gallery 98. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  14. ^ Russell, John (1982-03-19). "Art: 'New Work New York' at the New Museum". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  15. ^ "Exhibitions". New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  16. ^ "Visual Art Source". www.visualartsource.com. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  17. ^ "Pek for Herb—Happy Birthday | Yale University Art Gallery". artgallery.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-01.