Biography Pamela Soldwedel | Abstract & Contemporary Sculpture in Metal and Stone by Pamela Soldwedel

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Pamela Soldwedel has a spiritual connection with stone. She is inspired by its ancient life history. It was once very much alive, and the artist's goal is to revitalize its massive strength in her abstract sculpture, through transforming the seemingly immutable material into soft forms with supple movements.

Soldwedel abstract metal and bronze sculpture captures the movement of the waters in her flowing forms. Sleekly patinated or mirror finishes, intensified by the rough contrast of her carefully tooled striations, express wind-ruffled ocean surfaces, churning ocean depths, and foam flecked waves.

Pamela Soldwedel's sculptures have evolved into fresh new dimensions with her mixed media abstractions...joinings of layered stone and metal, plastics, glass and wood bring a multitude of expressions to her creations.

About Pamela Soldwedel

Pamela Soldwedel is a native New Yorker. She studied sculpture as an undergraduate at Bennington College, and thereafter, followed a varied career that included experience as a fabric designer; fashion show producer; radio disc jockey, radio and television commentator and producer; magazine publisher; and artistic coordinator in packaging design for a major fragrance house. Only after moving to Washington, D.C. in the mid-1970's did Soldwedel resume her sculpture, attending the Corcoran School of Art, where she received the Martha von Hirsh Award and the Mary Lay Thom Sculpture Award for most outstanding work. She earned the R.C.G. Merit Award of Excellence in 1993 and was the 1995 recipient of the Artists Equity Association's "Best In Show" Merry Slocum Bean Award. In 2005 Soldwedel was awarded a generous grant from The E. D. Foundation, New York, NY. In 2007 she received a prize for her entry in the Art League of Washington's sculpture show at Washington Square.

Ishtar III

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For the viewer, something different and fascinating is presented from every angle and every change of light, especially so due to the sculptor's intriguing use of sinuous shapes in her abstract sculptures.

These mixed media sculpture abstractions capture adventurous essences of nature. Lyrical in movement, they are well composed and as beautifully finished as fine jewelry. Each piece gives delight to the eye and touch, and seems imbued with a life of its own. Delicately poised on a minute footprint, there is a sense of tension...there's mystery...there's surprise.