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Pamela Soldwedel

ARTIST BIO

Pamela Soldwedel was born in New York City in 1926. 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-70'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 recently won the R.C.G. Merit Award of Excellence and was the 1995 recipient of the Artists Equity Association's "Best In Show" Merry Slocum Bean Award. Her works appear in numerous corporate and private collections.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Endings and beginnings, cycles of joy and sadness -- human instincts and emotions too basic or complex to articulate in a figurative manner -- appear to me as abstract forms. Through the use of organic shapes, recalling humans or animals without specifically simulating either, I seek to evoke the passion, mystery and ambiguity that is central to the human experience.

Out of seemingly immutable stone and metal, I work to create the sensual, enjoying the challenge of making them seem soft and flowing. Indeed, these smoothly moving lines characterize many of my pieces.

Others are disrupted by breaks. Sections are split or sliced symbolizing trauma. But all these sculptures are filled with hope. The separations are such that they may be rejoined. Life continues. The scarred but strengthened spirit resumes its cyclical journey to new beginnings.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
  • 1998 Corporate Office Centre at Tysons II, McLean, VA
  • 1997 White Flint Ltd., Bethesda, MD
  • 1994-6 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD
  • 1994-5 American Center for Physics, College Park, MD
  • 1994 Gilpin Gallery, Alexandria, VA
  • 1992-4 National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
  • 1993 U.S. Embassy, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1988 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
  • 1987 Andreas Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1987 Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC
  • 1986 Covington & Burling, Washington, DC
  • 1982 First American Bank, Washington, DC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
  • 1997-8 WSH Square Limited Partnership, Washington, DC
  • 1997 Washington Square, Washington, DC
  • 1996 Japan Information and Culture Center, Washington, DC
  • 1996 John A. Wilson Center, Washington, DC
  • 1996 Tucker, Flyer, & Lewis, PC, Washington, DC
  • 1996 Art Barn/Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1995 John A. Wilson Center, Washington, DC
  • 1995 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  • 1995 Embassy of France, Washington, DC
  • 1994 Arts Club, Washington, DC
  • 1993 Artists Equity/Annandale Gallery, Annandale, VA
  • 1993 Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1993-4 Washington Sculptors Group/Washington Square, Washington, DC
  • 1993 Franklin Square Exhibition Space, Washington, DC
  • 1992 Gilpin Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1992 Govinda Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1992 Carspecken Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE
  • 1992 Fairfax Council of the Arts, Fairfax, VA
  • 1992 Montgomery Arts Council Exhibition, Bethesda, MD
  • 1990 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1989 Art Barn, Washington, DC
  • 1987 Old State House, Hartford, CT
  • 1982 d'Amecourt Art Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1981 Meridian House International
  • 1981 Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
  • 1980 Art Barn, Washington, DC
  • 1979 Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC
  • 1978 Art Barn, Washington, DC

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
  • National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Chevy Chase, MD
  • North Carolina Granite Company, Mount Airy, NC
  • Robert H. Kellen Company, Atlanta, GA
  • U.S. Consulate, Hong Kong

SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS
  • 1990 Gosnell Properties, Vienna, VA
  • 1988 Westminster Investing Corporation, Washington, DC
  • 1987 Signet Bank, Washington, DC
  • 1984 Oliver Carr Company, Washington, DC
  • 1983 Houbigant, Inc., New York, NY

AWARDS
  • 1995 Merry Slocum Bean Award, Artists Equity, Washington, DC
  • 1993 R.G.C. Merit Award, Artists Equity, Washington, DC
  • 1982 Martha von Hirsch Award, Corcoron School of Art
  • 1982 Mary Lay Thom Award, Corcoran School of Art