Cheryl Laemmle

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;{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}} she was one of twenty-four artists to represent the United States at the 1984 Venice Biennale.{{cite book|last=Shamam|first=Sanford Sivitz|title=Robert Yarber Paintings: 1980–1988, Palmer Museum of Art |isbn=0-911209-39-5|year=1989|publisher=Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University }}

Laemmle's style has been described both as surrealism[https://rogallery.com/Laemmle_Cheryl/laemmle-biography.html Ro Gallery, New York City] and as magic realism.Artforum, "Cheryl Laemmle, Terry Dintenfass, Inc.", May, 1991, p. 147 Targets, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the artist's style. The Fogg Art Museum,{{cite web|url=http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/328796?position=0|title=From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Untitled|last=Harvard|publisher=|accessdate=6 March 2017}} the Honolulu Museum of Art,Targets, 1992, oil on canvas, accession 2018-4-05 the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art,{{Cite web|url=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/The-Dorothy-and-Herbert-Vogel-Collection/04343E9E8D57F3ED|title=The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Rhode Island|last=|first=|date=|website=MutualArt|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101155630/https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/The-Dorothy-and-Herbert-Vogel-Collection/04343E9E8D57F3ED |archive-date=2019-11-01 |access-date=}} the Birmingham Museum of Art,{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsbma.org/artist/cheryl-laemmle-american-born-1947/|website=www.artsbma.org|access-date=2019-11-01|title=Untitled | Birmingham Museum of Art}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/484438|title=Cheryl Laemmle - Stockton (From the American Decoy Series) - The Met|date=1986 |publisher=|accessdate=6 March 2017}} the Walker Art Gallery,{{cite web|url=http://www.walkerart.org/collections/artists/cheryl-laemmle|title=Cheryl Laemmle — Collections — Walker Art Center|first=Walker|last=Art|publisher=|accessdate=6 March 2017}} KMAC Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art,{{cite web|url=http://collection.whitney.org/artist/4772/CherylLaemmle|title=Whitney Museum of American Art: Cheryl Laemmle|publisher=|accessdate=6 March 2017}} are among the public collections holding works by Cheryl Laemmle.

Laemmle's work 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.{{Cite web|url=http://gallery.98bowery.com/2018/sharpe-gallery-cheryl-laemmle-folded-car-1984/|title=Sharpe Gallery, Cheryl Laemmle, Folded Car, 1984|last=America *~.*|first=Haoyan of|date=2018-05-04|website=Gallery 98|language=en|access-date=2019-11-01}}

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.

The New York Times art critic John Russell reviewed{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/19/arts/art-new-work-new-york-at-the-new-museum.html|title=Art: 'New Work New York' at the New Museum|last=Russell|first=John|date=1982-03-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-11-01|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Laemmle's work in a March 19, 1982 issue about the "New Work/ New York{{Cite web|url=https://archive.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/451|title=Exhibitions|website=New Museum Digital Archive|language=en|access-date=2019-11-01}}'' exhibit at the New Museum.

Laemmle has received a variety of awards, 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).

Cheryl Laemmle is married{{Cite web|url=http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=22&aID=3289|title=Visual Art Source|website=www.visualartsource.com|access-date=2019-11-01}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/132957|title=Pek for Herb—Happy Birthday {{!}} Yale University Art Gallery|website=artgallery.yale.edu|access-date=2019-11-01}}

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