Loie Hollowell
Born 1983, Woodland, CA (US)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (US)
Loie Hollowell’s vibrant sculptural paintings express aspects of sensuality and the life-creating potential of the human body. Hollowell distils the human form into supple yet direct shapes protruding outward from the canvas in exquisite relief. Contrasting, vibrant hues create the sense that her canvases are pulsating with energy. Hollowell references sacred iconography such as the mandorla and lingam, often joined in the choreography of sexual intimacy. The artist’s recent work directly references the physical and emotional experience of pregnancy and childbirth.
Her joyful celebrations of the body are the product of intensive craftsmanship and precise brushwork, such as delicate swirls of the brush and subtle gradients. An intuitive stylistic link to Op-Art, transcendental or tantric art and feminist painting from the ‘70s and ’80s are historical genres easily alluded to when describing Hollowell’s work. However, Hollowell stands out in both approach and sentiment; she has created a new visual language aimed at capturing the overarching themes of the relationship between the body, the self, sexuality, time, and space.
Loie Hollowell (b. 1983 in Woodland, CA, US) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (US). She earned a BFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (US) in 2005, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (US) in 2012. Hollowell was the recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship Award a residency at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the Queens Art Fund Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts. Selected collections include: Arts Council England, London (UK); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (US); Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London (UK); THE EKARD COLLECTION; He Art Museum, Shunde (CN); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (US); Long Museum, Shanghai (CN); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (US); Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (CH).
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54 White Street | Inaugural exhibition
GRIMM's new gallery in Tribeca 20 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US)Join us in March 2021 for the grand opening of GRIMM's new space in Tribeca at 54 White Street. For more further information, please email info@grimmgallery.comRead more -
Romancing the Surface
Curated by Loie Hollowell 20 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 GRIMM Keizersgracht 241, Amsterdam (NL), GRIMM Van Baerlestraat 80, Amsterdam (NL) -
Loie Hollowell
One opening leads to another 22 Nov 2019 - 4 Jan 2020 GRIMM Keizersgracht 241, Amsterdam (NL) -
Away in the Hill
Group Exhibition 27 Jun - 2 Aug 2019 GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US)
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9 Women Artists Celebrating the Spirituality and Legacy of Hilma af Klint
Claudia Cheng, Artsy, February 24, 2022 -
Art and Culture Center Exhibit Redefines the Self-Portrait
John Thomason, Boca, June 25, 2021 -
Loie Hollowell on painting, pain, and her second birth
Osman Can Yerebakan, Art Forum, May 26, 2021 -
Loie Hollowell's Transcendent Bodies
Art21, April 14, 2021 -
Artist Loie Hollowell On How Motherhood Inspired Her Paintings
Oliver Giles, Hong Kong Tatler, April 12, 2021 -
A Closer Look at the Loie Hollowell-curated "Romancing the Surface"
Sasha Bogojev, Juxtapoz, February 4, 2021 -
Loie Hollowell Curates "Romancing the Surface"
Evan Pricco, Juxtapoz, January 6, 2021 -
Loie Hollowell explores themes of sexuality, conception, and being a woman in today's world in new exhibition
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ELLE's 2020 Women in Art: Five Artists to Know Now
Molly Langmuir, Elle, March 5, 2020 -
Is Loie Hollowell a Georgia O'Keefe for the Instagram Age?
Haley Mellin, GARAGE Magazine, Issue 12, January 19, 2020 -
One Opening Leads to Another: Loie Hollowell's Amsterdam Debut with GRIMM Gallery
Sasha Bogojev, Juxtapoz Magazine, November 11, 2019 -
Plumb Line: The Moving and Sublime Works of Loie Hollowell @ Pace Gallery, NY
Juxtapoz, October 11, 2019 -
Loie Hollowell: Plumb Line
Elizabeth Buhe, The Brooklyn Rail, October 1, 2019 -
You’ll Want to Pay Close Attention at Loie Hollowell’s New Show
Marley Marius, Vogue, September 13, 2019 -
Loie Hollowell: Fluorescent Light & Full Bellies
Holly Black, Elephant, June 21, 2019 -
Mothers versus Machines
Louise Benson, Holly Black, Alice Bucknell and Emily Steer, Elephant, December 1, 2018 -
Loie Hollowell: Dominant/Recessive review
Eddy Frankel, Time Out, August 1, 2018 -
Pace Gallery opens exhibition of new paintings and new works on paper by Loie Hollowell
ArtDaily, April 10, 2018 -
Artist Loie Hollowell Toys with Sex and Abstraction
Ryan Steadman, Cultured Mag, September 19, 2017 -
Bohemian upbringing informs Loie Hollowell’s art
Carolyne Zinko , San Francisco Chronicle, September 7, 2017 -
Loie Hollowell's Sensuous, Suggestive Paintings Provoke and Delight
Mariana Fernandez, FLAUNT, August 4, 2017 -
Loie Hollowell
Elizabeth Buhe, Art in America, January 27, 2017 -
Loie Hollowell Mother Tongue
Owen Duffy, ArtReview, January 1, 2017 -
Critics' Picks: Loie Hollowell
Genevieve Allison, Artforum, October 27, 2016 -
Art Review; Loie Hollowell’s Abstract Body Landscapes
Martha Schwendener, The New York Times, November 26, 2015
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Prime: Art's Next Generation
Phaidon Editors Phaidon Editors, 2022 Flexibound, 448 pages
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN: 9781838662448
Dimensions: 290 × 214 mm (11 3/8 × 8 3/8 in) Read more -
Romancing the Surface
curated by Loie Hollowell Interviews by Loie Hollowell with the participating artists, 2021 hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: GRIMM Amsterdam (NL)
ISBN: 978-90-813137-7-3
Dimensions: 22 x 15 cm | 8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in Read more