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Attachment 1 • f4 sy 7 1 • rte; • • Painted Bronze ?2 x 29 x 15 $42.000 JULIE SPEIDEL—"Siiogt" Julie Speidells sculptures engage an extraordnary array of cultural influences, reaching back through antiquity to the stone- and bronze-age peoples of Europe, the early Buddhists of China, the Indigenous tribes of her native Pacific Northwest, and on into twentieth-century modernism. Depending on our own spheres of knowledge, we may find in her work echoes of the British isles(megagthic stone structures, Cydad c Greek fertility figures, Native American totem poles, and dozens of other iconic cultural forms, some universally recognized, others buried by history. At the same time, her Mork is strongly Inked to that of modernists like Henry Moore and Picasso,who were likewise enormously influenced by the language of antiquity and sought to reinterpret it through a contemporary lens. "The inspiration for my work is rooted in the power of travel," Speidel remarks, and Indeed, her sculptures assimilate cultural influences in a manner reminiscent of traveloque-organic and intuitive,not academic or preordained.Her Mork encourages us to make complex associations,but it delights as well in purely formal properties•,color, carefully poised compositions, the natural qualities of bronze, glass, and stone. Seen in a landscape, Speidells sculptures have a Zen-like relationship with the surrounding area, humbling themselves to the natural world while simultaneously enhancing it, amplifying its effect.This,perhaps,is among the most remarkable aspects of Speidells sculpture;its capacity to engage in dialogue with the wrorfd-not only with its natural elements,but also with the whole of human history and art.