Abstract and 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.

News & Events of Pamela Soldwedel

Announcing

An Exhibition of the
Sculptures of Pamela Soldwedel
and the Prints of Richard D. Barrett

April 3 – June 25, 2008

At the Law offices of Covington & Burling, LLP
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC, 20004

Viewing by appointment
800-337-8907

PAMELA SOLDWEDEL SCULPTURES
AT COVINGTON & BURLING, LLP
APRIL 3 – June 25, 2008

Title Material Size Price
1. BREAKING FORTH II Marble 13½" L x 13" W x 17¼" H $8,500
2. EL TIGRE…hijo Marble/Aluminum/ Gold Leaf 20½ L x 10" W x 14½"H $9,500
3. EXUBERANCE Patinated bronze 17 ½" L x 6¾" W x 17" H $6,300
4. LEAP FROG III River Jack Granite 6" L x 4¾" W x 6¼" H $1,800
5. MANTRA Gold Leafed Bronze 10½ " L x 10¼" W x 10½" H $3,900
6. METAMORPHOSIS Marble/Bronze/Granite/Wood 12" W x 12" D x 28" H $9,000
7. MY OLD FLAME Steatite/Bronze 5 ½" D x 12½" W x 10" H $3,500
8. NUANCE Crystalline alabaster 13" L x 6¾" W x 20½" H $5,100
9. PANDEMONIUM Alabaster 12" L x 11¼" W x 18¼" H $6,900
10. PARTING III Marble 16½" L x 13" W x 26½" H $10,600
11. PARTING IV Crystalline alabaster 19½" L x 7½" W x 12½" H $7,500
12. PASSION Granite/Bronze/Acrylic 25" L x 17¾" W x 49" H $17,200
13. SHE...ABSTRACT IV Patinated bronze 14½" L x 8½" W x 19" H $8,000
14. SMOOTH OPERATOR … left me in pieces Granite/Bronze 11" L x 9½" W x 8" H $3,000
15. THEY’RE TEARING US APART Steatite/Bronze 9¼" D x 12¼" W x 11¼" H $4,000



  • Two of Pamela's latest works (ROCK 'N ROLL and LAYLA) have been chosen for inclusion in the Washington Square Invitational Exhibition, to be held August 3-November 1, 2008 at Washington Square, 1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW in Washington, DC.
  • Pamela recently completed two new sculptures ROCK 'N ROLL and LAYLA, just in time for inclusion in her solo exhibition, which runs from February 2-April 26, in the Sculpture Atrium at The Corporate Center at Tysons II, 1800 Tysons Boulevard, in McLean, VA.
  • One of Pamela's latest sculptures, MOMENT OF TRUTH?...is this what I signed up for?, has been selected for inclusion in the Washington Sculptors Group current show, Sculpture NOW, being held at Washington Square in Washington, DC from February 4-May 2, 2008.
  • Selected sculptures of Pamela Soldwedel's are currently on exhibit in a solo show which opened on January 16, 2008 at The Corporate Centre at Tysons II, 1800 Tysons Boulevard in McLean, VA. ROCK 'N ROLL; SEARCH; ZENITH; SEDNA; LAYLA;MANTRA; AN EYE FOR AN EYE, A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH...what then?; and STRONG SPIRIT may be viewed in the Sculpture Arium at The Corporate Center through April 26, 2008.
  • June 2007: Pamela's bronze sculpture, EXUBERANCE, which will be on exhibit from August 5-November 3, 2007 in the Art League Sculptors at Washington Square show in Washington, DC, has been awarded a prize by the Art League of Alexandria, VA.
  • In a solo show which opened on October 6, 2007 and runs through January 5, 2008, Pamela has on exhibit in the sculpture atrium of The Corporate Centre at 1600 Tysons II in McLean, VA the following six sculptures: EL TIGRE...hijo ; MOMENT OF TRUTH ... is this what I signed up for?; FORCE I; RODINA...MOTHER RUSSIA; BREAKING FORTH II; and SEA LIFE.
  • On October 23, 2007 The Washington Sculptors Group opens its annual Image Show at the Katzen Arts Center at the American University Museum in Washington, DC. Five of Pamela's sculptures will be shown: SEDNA; EL TIGRE...hijo ; SEA LIFE; MOMENT OF TRUTH ... is this what I signed up for?; and AN EYE FOR AN EYE, A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH...what then?
  • Six of Pamela Soldwedel's sculptures, in both stone and metal, were on exhibit in the Washington, DC area in the Corporate Office Centre atrium lobbies at Tysons II from April 14th through July 14, 2007.

    To view the six sculptures presented in this exhibition, please click on the titles below:

  • At 1650 Tysons Boulevard: PARTING IV
    AN EYE FOR AN EYE, A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH...what then?
    MOMENT OF TRUTH ... is this what I signed up for?

    At 1750 Tysons Boulevard: METAMORPHOSIS
    SEDNA
    TIGRE (hijo)

  • July 18, 2006 ... Announcing the availability of WE ARE in monumental size.
  • In 2005, she was the recipient of a generous grant from The E. D. Foundation, New York, NY.

  • Click here to view larger image of Tempest I by Pamela Soldwedel at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
    TEMPEST I at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

  • About Artist Pamela Soldwedel-

    Pamela Soldwedel is a sculptor who works in bronze and stone. Two of her works are in the collection of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. They are mid scale pieces of beautiful technical refinement and dramatic aesthetic presence. Soldwedel has a lyric sensibility which is modulated by a firm, classical understanding of form in space. Her forms revolve in and out upon themselves, discovering new twists in both inner and outer space. They could be forms from the ocean or forms from the winds. What is certain is their fundamental organicism. With titles such as “Tempest I” and “Tempest II” they make this organic dimension of clashing and contorted forces clear, yet without losing a secure sense of balance.

  • In the final analysis Soldwedel’s works inhabit a spiritual domain where powerful vortices converge and progressively “emerge” from their own confrontation. They are beautifully realized abstract sculptures.

    Paul Master-Karnik
    Director
    DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
    Lincoln, Massachusetts


    align="center">TEMPEST I and TEMPEST II have been acquired for the permanent collection
    of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.


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    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.

    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.