Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to announce Apposition, our fifth solo exhibition with Julie Speidel. Speidel’s bronze, glass and stone works are rooted in her life-long fascination with ancient megaliths and are heavily influenced by her numerous travels.  
 
In this exhibition Speidel introduces marble into her work.  The monumental white, totemic stones are juxtaposed with bronze inserts, creating an exquisite interplay between color and texture. In addition to the new marble pieces, her entirely bronze works consider positive and negative contours of each form, giving the work a strong and fluid presence.   
 
By utilizing the infinite potential of her materials, Julie Speidel imbues each sculpture with a strong sense of space.  She creates works that suggest movement, balance, growth and even buoyancy – something that is utterly unexpected with such solid materials.  
 
Speidel also sees her work as part of a continuing legacy of sculptural form with cultural significance.  She looks to 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 for inspiration and lineage.  It is the commonalities of all cultures in this practice to convey community narrative through sculptural forms that she uses as the touchstone of her work.
 
Julie Speidel’s work is included in many prestigious private and public collections nationwide. Some of her prominent collections include the University of Washington, Swedish Hospital and the Tacoma Art Museum.

For more information, please contact Megan Des Jardins at (206) 652-5855.
















Winston Wachter is pleased to present our second solo exhibition with New Mexico based artist Tracy Rocca.  Rocca uses layers of thinly applied and blended glazes of oil paint to delicately build the soft and luminous surfaces of her paintings.   Through this slow and deliberate process, Rocca creates an image that is suggestive of a familiar landscape, yet one that is ambiguous and evokes a sense of wonder and contemplation.   
 
In this new body of work, Rocca draws upon her memories of growing up in the Northwest. She recalls the view of Mount Rainier from the 520 bridge, the cherry blossoms in bloom at the University of Washington, or the Seattle waterfront from the deck of a ferry.  Her paintings are like postcards reminding her of life in Seattle, like a Polaroid that isn’t fully developed in which some of the details are missing, but the general impression is still there. While the locations of each painting are specific to her own memories, Rocca uses her signature style of abstracting the landscape to a blurred or fuzzy suggestion, allowing the viewer to contribute their own memories to the interpretation of the imagery.
 
With a conscious effort to slow down, Rocca observes her surroundings, finding inspiring forms and colors from her every day experience.  While she uses a digital camera to instantaneously capture snapshots of these scenes, Rocca relies on her painting practice to take the time to enjoy them and live in that moment of inspiration. This contemplative and meditative process that is captured in her work is then translated to the viewer.

For more information, please contact Megan Des Jardins at (206) 652-5855.