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.

What They're Saying About Soldwedel Sculptures

  • 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

  • "Pamela Soldwedel's Fireflower ... continues to be one of the most admired pieces in the Museum and an essential part of our mezzanine installation."
    - Susan Fisher Sterling, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts

  • "The response to your show has been extremely favorable. The visitors as well as the members have been thrilled with your sculptures. I am so pleased that the Museum has had the opportunity to exhibit your work..."
    - Allison Cywin, Curator/Registrar, Newport Art Museum

  • "Pamela Soldwedel's art brings to mind another twentieth-century artist; her graceful and simple forms appear to have been made by the forces of nature in the manner of Barbara Hepworth's elegant works."
    - Kristen Miller Zohn, Curator of Art, Albany Museum of Art

    "... seven exquisite sculptures, set like jewels on their pedestals encased in their plexiglass vitrines."
    Diana Cole, Montgomery County Sentinal

  • "I'm proud to have MANTRA among my cherished artworks - it grabs attention, no apologies, dressed in its finery. What class!
    (Name of collector withheld.)

  • "All fluid curves and swirling, concentric forms, Soldwedel has reached into the cold, hard heart of stone and released a hidden sensuality ... How does Soldwedel woo such wonders from the solid forces of stone and metal?"
    -Washington Entertainment Magazine

  • "The Magnificent Seven ... seven exquisite [Soldwedel] sculptures set like jewels on their pedestals..."
    -The Montgomery County Journal

  • Describing THIRD WAVE:
    "... this 10,000 pound rock was transformed by Ms. Soldwedel into a thrust of energy in which one can glimpse suggested shapes of the human form."
    -The Uptown Citizen

  • "... splendid small bronzes by Pamela Soldwedel."
    -The Georgetowner

  • "Pamela Soldwedel's marble ANGST ... good art."
    - Hank Burchard, The Washington Post

  • "This woman knows how to romance a stone."
    -Todd Allen Yasui, The Washington Post

  • "At the risk of sounding hokey, one might say that you will find [Soldwedel's] pieces lovely, perhaps even charming. Yet they have a force about them that must be present in good stone sculpture."
    Newport This Week describing Pam's exhibition at the Newport Art Museum

  • "ART DICTATES DESIGN FOR GOSNELL PROPERTIES
    ... We were interested in generating a certain image for the project, an upscale image that was modern and yet timeless."
    Barry Gosnell, Treasurer,Gosnell Properties, Inc., describing the selection of ISHTAR III for the grand atrium of their new McLean, VA office building, International Gateway.
    -Corporate Art News

  • "We have been honored to have WE' as a part of our family for the past three years. A magnificent piece!"
    -Inscription on photo by Hon. Richard Mueller, Consul General of the United States, Hong Kong.

  • "SEARCH was the centerpiece of our residence - simply beautiful!"
    -Inscription on photo by Hon. Bruce Gelb, Ambassador of United States to Belgium.

  • "I enclose my check for ... as payment for QUEST. It is just magnificent. It greets me in the morning as I turn out the night lights, and it warms me in the evening when I turn them on. [name deleted] and I are absolutely thrilled with what you have created for us."
    -Letter from the collector who commissioned QUEST

  • "... The curatorial staff tells me that the beautiful piece FIREFLOWER II you have made possible for us to display will be on exhibition shortly. Thank you for finding NMWA worthy of your interest. I am delighted that your sculpture will be represented at the museum."
    - Letter from Wilhelmina Cole Holliday, President, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

  • "IN THE GATEHOUSE GALLERY: A SCULPTURE GALAXY
    Step into the gallery and you feel that the swirling, undulating and concentric forms of the sculpture are echoed in the arrangement of the pieces around the room...enchanting forms..."
    -The Merriweather Post

  • "Your work is absolutely lovely! I was entranced by two pieces in particular, which are alas already owned. I would love to come and see any other works you have in progress.
    -Letter from Jane Coutant Evans, President, Mount Vernon College, site of the Gatehouse Gallery.

  • " ... We love our Fireflower, and we are looking forward to the time when it can be viewed by everyone. It is really a treasure.
    -Letter from the CEO of Westminster Investing Corporation which commissioned the sculpture.

  • "[name deleted} and I were thrilled to receive notice that ISHTAR has been purchased and presented to the National Academy of Sciences. We don't know of any artist who is so dedicated to her work as you, nor one who brings such sensitivity to everything she creates. It is a privilege to have two Soldwedels in our garden and one in our living room!
    -Letter from a collector of Soldwedel Sculptures

  • "Just read my House and Garden for Sept ... found your web site, and decided to check it out...the sculptures are the most beautiful things that I've ever seen. It must be wonderful to be so very blessed with talent like yours. It is hard for me to come to terms that anyone can create such beauty. Just wanted you to know that the every day person likes to breathe such beauty also."
    "Thank you."

Pamela Soldwedel Art Gallery of
Abstract Stone Sculptures

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.

She is fascinated by the way in which she can express her feelings working with the stones' color, texture and grain to create her abstract stone sculptures.

She labors, lovingly, her chisel biting into the rocky earth-flesh, to transmit her messages, enthralled by the ever-changing sight, sound, touch and smell of stone.

Ishtar III

abstract stone sculpture

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to see how Ishtar
came to be

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.