Julie Speidel

JULIE SPEIDEL Winston Wächter Fine Art

JULIE SPEIDEL Julie Speidel’s artistic voice is built on a fundamental and universal visual vocabulary. Her sculpture creates a distinctly contemporary bridge between natural organic form and human intervention. She sees her work as part of a continuing legacy of sculptural form: from the megaliths of the British Isles, the burial figures of China, the carved petroglyphs of India or the totemic arts of cultures on many continents. It is the commonalities of all cultures that she uses as the touchstone of her work Speidel was born in Seattle in 1941 and was raised in the Pacific Northwest and Europe. A formative period as an adolescent in England and Scotland, along with summers in the forests and shores of the Northwest, provided her with a sense of the power and grandeur of ancient and sacred sites—both natural and man made.

She credits these environments as encouraging her inclination to the three-dimensional object. An inveterate collector of found objects and an avid traveler to ancient sites from Mongolia to Majorca, Speidel is drawn to intriguing textures and the inherent power of certain forms. She pursued her training in languages at the University of Grenoble, France and her art in Seattle at the Cornish College of the Arts and the University of Washington. But it was in the 1980s that her work with metal, patina and stone provided her with the tools best suited to her expressive language.

Mullo, 2017, cast glass and bronze, 32 x 27 x 8 in.

Price: $46000

Trollasten 2017, Hand rubbed oil on Japanese paper, 26 x 24 in.

Frame Size: 34 x 31.5 x 2 in.

Price: $8000

Doserygg 2017, Hand rubbed oil on Japanese paper, 26 x 24 in.

Frame Size: 34 x 31.5 x 2 in.

Price: $8000

Manali 2011, marble 59 x 13 x 5 in.

Price: $35,000

Porirua 2016, bronze and marble, 17.25 x 60 x 15.5 inches Price: $43,000

Medeina 2017, bronze 13.5 x 12.5 x 7 inches Price: $22,000

Sojobo 2014, Bronze 29 x 17.5 x 8 inches Price: $28,000

Methana 2018, painted bronze 28 x 15 x 8 inches Price: $30,000

Eutychia 2017, Hand rubbed oil on Japanese paper, 72 x 26 inches Frame Size: 77 x 31 x 2 inches Price: $16,000

Taku Glacier 2018, stainless steel Size: 14 x 29 x 12 inches Price: $21,000

Shinatobe 2017 Hand rubbed oil on Japanese paper 23.5 x 26.5 inches Frame Size: 31.5 x 34.5 x 2 inches Price: $9,000

Hotoru 2017 Hand rubbed oil on Japanese paper 23.5 x 26.5 inches Frame Size: 31.5 x 34.5 x 2 inches Price: $9,000

Biyelgee 2018 bronze 82 x 47.5 x 18 inches $46,000

Cairn 2016 Stainless steel and bronze 101 x 48 x 48 inches Price: $100,000

Collections Amazon Doppler Building, Seattle, WA American Greetings World Headquarters, Westlake, OH AT&T Gateway Tower-Seattle Municipal Tower, Seattle, WA Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, permanent collection, Bainbridge, WA Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Bellevue Towers, two site-specific sculptures, Bellevue, WA Bentall Corporation, Puget Sound Energy Summit Building, Bellevue, WA Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Headquarters, Tukwila, WA Cairncross & Hemplemann, Seattle, WA Central Oregon Community College, site-specific sculpture, Bend, OR Century Square Building, Seattle, WA Courthouse Square, Vashon Island, WA ERA Care, University House at Wallingford, Seattle, WA Gardner Corporation, Grove Plaza, Boise, ID Gerding Edlen, Portland, OR Golden Umbrella Award, One Reel, Seattle, WA Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Wilamette Uniersity Salem, OR Heller Ehrman Law Firm, New York, NY Hines Development Corporation, One Twelfth @ Twelfth Office Building, Bellevue, WA Hughes Landing, The Woodlands, TX Jacob Lawrence Golden Umbrella Award, One Reel, Seattle, WA Jewish Family Services, site-specific sculpture, Seattle, WA Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Althea Stroum Award, WA The Keg Restaurants, Vancouver, Canada - several locations King County Public Library, Shoreline, WA Kirkland Gateway Project, City of Kirkland, Kirkland, WA Kirkland and Ellis, LLP, Palo Alto, CA Kubota Garden, Seattle, WA Lane Powell Spears Lubersky, LLP, Seattle, WA Lennar Corporation, The Lakes, West Covina CA. Lerner Corporation, Fallsgrove Plaza, Rockville, MD Microsoft Collection, Bellevue, WA McInerney & Baker, Seattle, WA Meydenbauer Performing Arts Center, Bellevue, WA Nordstrom Corporation (seven national locations) Northwest College of the Nazarene, Nampa, ID Ober Park, Vashon, WA

Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA Paccar Corporation, Bellevue, WA Pilchuck Glass School, Hauberg Memorial, Stanwood, WA Plaza Yarrow Bay, Kirkland, WA Portland Art Museum, Portland OR Portview Trade Centre, City of Belfast, Ireland Quail Lodge, Carmel CA Red Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV Runnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside, CA Seattle University School of Law, Dean’s Office, Seattle, WA Sellen Construction Corporate Office, Seattle, WA Shafer Vineyard, site-specific sculpture, Napa, CA St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, baptismal font, altar, tabernacle, Seattle, WA Suncadia Resort, Suncadia Trail: Roslyn’s History in 14 Sculptures, Roslyn, WA Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA Swedish Medical Center/Issaquah Campus, Issaquah Highlands, WA Swedish Orthopedic Institute, site-specific sculpture, Seattle, WA Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA – Permanent Collection and site specific collection United States Embassies Collection, three embassies University of Washington, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering, Alberg Terrace, Seattle, WA Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon Island, WA Ventana Vineyards, private wine label, Monterey, CA William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Judge Sharp Memorial, Seattle, WA YWCA Opportunity Place, Seattle, WA Zymogenetics, Seattle, WA