Description:
allegory; landscape; fruit; vegetation
Label Text:
Cheryl Laemmle's autobiographical painting "Two Sisters" is part of a series of "birch bark" paintings begun in the early 1980s which reference the artist's childhood summers spent with family in upstate Michigan.
Laemmle is a symbolic painter who uses loaded images to tell a story from her childhood. In "Two Sisters" Laemmle portrays two bark figures seated on a rock. Viewed through the lens of childhood, the rock becomes a horse, and the figures the siblings involved in a game of make-believe.
The story becomes more complex and compelling as she adds the entwining lilac vine, the eyes on the birch bark, the sculptural picket fence and the tremendous variation of scale within the composition. The associations these symbols evoke serve to flesh out the narrative of the artist and her sister.
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