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Loie Hollowell
One opening leads to another, GRIMM Keizersgracht 241, Amsterdam (NL), 22 November 2019 - 4 January 2020

Loie Hollowell : One opening leads to another

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  • Loie Hollowell, Horizon on my pit of Hell, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, Horizon on my pit of Hell, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell Horizon on my pit of Hell, 2019 Oil paint, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel 71.1 x 53.3 x 5.1 cm | 28 x 21 x 2 1/8 in
    Loie Hollowell
    Horizon on my pit of Hell, 2019
    Oil paint, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel
    71.1 x 53.3 x 5.1 cm | 28 x 21 x 2 1/8 in
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  • Loie Hollowell, Horizon on my pit of Hell, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, Horizon on my pit of Hell, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell, One opening leads to another, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, One opening leads to another, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell One opening leads to another, 2019 Oil paint, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel 71.1 x 53.3 x 5.1 cm | 28 x 21 x 2 1/8 in
    Loie Hollowell
    One opening leads to another, 2019
    Oil paint, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel
    71.1 x 53.3 x 5.1 cm | 28 x 21 x 2 1/8 in
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  • Loie Hollowell, One opening leads to another, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, One opening leads to another, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell, Deep Breath, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, Deep Breath, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell Deep Breath, 2019 Oil paint, hair, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel 71.1 cm × 53.3 cm × 7.6 cm | 28 × 21 × 3 in
    Loie Hollowell
    Deep Breath, 2019
    Oil paint, hair, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel
    71.1 cm × 53.3 cm × 7.6 cm | 28 × 21 × 3 in
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  • Loie Hollowell, Deep Breath, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, Deep Breath, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell Squeezed Cheeks, 2019 Oil, acrylic medium, sawdust, and high density foam on linen over panel 71.1 x 53.3 x 5.1 cm | 28 x 21 x 2 1/8 in
    Loie Hollowell
    Squeezed Cheeks, 2019
    Oil, acrylic medium, sawdust, and high density foam on linen over panel
    71.1 x 53.3 x 5.1 cm | 28 x 21 x 2 1/8 in
  • Loie Hollowell Squeezed Cheeks, 2019 Oil, acrylic medium, sawdust, and high density foam on linen over panel 71.1 x 53.3 x 5.1 cm | 28 x 21 x 2 1/8 in
    Loie Hollowell
    Squeezed Cheeks, 2019
    Oil, acrylic medium, sawdust, and high density foam on linen over panel
    71.1 x 53.3 x 5.1 cm | 28 x 21 x 2 1/8 in
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  • Loie Hollowell, Squeezed Cheeks, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, Squeezed Cheeks, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell, Meeting Place, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, Meeting Place, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell Meeting Place, 2019 oil paint, hair, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel 71.1 cm × 53.3 cm × 6.4 cm | 28 × 21 × 2 1/2 in
    Loie Hollowell
    Meeting Place, 2019
    oil paint, hair, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel
    71.1 cm × 53.3 cm × 6.4 cm | 28 × 21 × 2 1/2 in
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  • Loie Hollowell, Meeting Place, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, Meeting Place, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell, Push Out, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, Push Out, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell Push Out, 2019 Oil paint, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel 71.1 x 53.3 x 7.6 cm | 28 x 21 x 3 in
    Loie Hollowell
    Push Out, 2019
    Oil paint, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel
    71.1 x 53.3 x 7.6 cm | 28 x 21 x 3 in
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  • Loie Hollowell, Push Out, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, Push Out, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell, Sitting in a landscape, 2016-2019
    Loie Hollowell, Sitting in a landscape, 2016-2019
  • Loie Hollowell Sitting in a landscape, 2016-2019 Oil paint, acrylic medium, sawdust and high density foam on linen mounted on panel 71.1 x 53.3 x 6.3 cm | 28 x 21 x 2 1/2 in
    Loie Hollowell
    Sitting in a landscape, 2016-2019
    Oil paint, acrylic medium, sawdust and high density foam on linen mounted on panel
    71.1 x 53.3 x 6.3 cm | 28 x 21 x 2 1/2 in
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  • Loie Hollowell, Sitting in a landscape, 2016-2019
    Loie Hollowell, Sitting in a landscape, 2016-2019
  • Loie Hollowell, The Kiss, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, The Kiss, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell The Kiss, 2019 Oil paint, hair, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel 71.1 cm × 53.3 cm × 7.6 cm | 28 × 21 × 3 in
    Loie Hollowell
    The Kiss, 2019
    Oil paint, hair, acrylic medium, and high density foam on linen over panel
    71.1 cm × 53.3 cm × 7.6 cm | 28 × 21 × 3 in
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  • Loie Hollowell, The Kiss, 2019
    Loie Hollowell, The Kiss, 2019
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Press
  • One Opening Leads to Another: Loie Hollowell's Amsterdam Debut with GRIMM Gallery

    Sasha Bogojev, Juxtapoz Magazine, November 11, 2019
  • Loie Hollowell, Birthing Dance, 2018. Oil paint, acrylic medium, sawdust, and high density foam on linen mounted on panel, 72 x 54 x 3 1/2 inches. © Loie Hollowell. Courtesy Pace Gallery.

    Loie Hollowell: Plumb Line

    Elizabeth Buhe, The Brooklyn Rail, October 1, 2019
News
  • Loie Hollowell's inaugural exhibition at GRIMM

    Loie Hollowell's inaugural exhibition at GRIMM

    Opening reception 22 Nov, 5 - 7 pm, Keizergracht 241, Amsterdam (NL) Read more
Press release
Loie Hollowell , One opening leads to another
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GRIMM is proud to present One opening leads to another by Loie Hollowell (b. 1983, Woodland, CA, US). The exhibition will open during Amsterdam Art Weekend 2019 and marks Hollowell’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Hollowell will present a group of new paintings which reference the body as a landscape and the act of giving birth.

Energy, the vital property that sustains life and growth through ceaseless transformations, takes shape in Loie Hollowell’s new series of works. Hollowell’s paintings radiate with energy stemming from an ongoing stream of consciousness, activating the tension between the surface of her canvases and the materiality of the works as art-objects. These paintings combine concave and convex shapes which allude to an inner energy with qualities that are both calm and soothing, as well as urging, pulsing, itching, pushing and painful. The act of breathing- depicted by pulsing lines- resonates as a primordial chorus in each painting, illustrating the various stages of the birthing process.

In Meeting Place the sense of waiting, of balancing the scales of emotion becomes palpable, while in Horizon on my pit of hell the specific moment of giving birth, of pushing a baby into the world with all the emotional and psychical intensity this demands is defined by clear, stark lines of pain and tenderness. The radiant One opening leads to another illustrates life-giving energy as it is passed on- through ones’ body into another, affirmative life-creating energy, illustrated by an aura in bands of color. Sitting in a Landscape illustrates Loie’s approach to the body-as-landscape, where a horizon line anchors the composition, and the body is depicted going into labor with a series of concentric lines and circles. The exhibition concludes with Squeezed Cheeks which can be read as a post-partum reflection.

Loie Hollowell’s focus on the body in context creates a new visual language that captures the overarching themes of the intimate relationship between the body, the self, sex, time and space. The paintings are built-up as wall reliefs from which an internal logic and subject matter gradually unfold. Hollowell’s process entails building up the surfaces of her works to create enchanting illusions which challenge any single or realistic light source. Her use of color gradients creates the illusion of an internal luminosity and makes these complex paintings surge with a slow-burning sensuality, or intimacy at its most intense.

Infusing elements of ancient sacred iconography (an almond- shaped mandala represents a vagina, and the lingam shape, an abstracted penis), Hollowell’s painterly language conveys the physicality and otherworldliness of the primal sexual act. Within the work a number of narratives are approached with intelligence and humor, as well as a total sense of liberation concerning sexuality and the human form.

Opening: Friday 22 November, 5-7pm, during Amsterdam Art Weekend Gallery Night

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Related content
  • One Opening Leads to Another: Loie Hollowell's Amsterdam Debut with GRIMM Gallery Press

    One Opening Leads to Another: Loie Hollowell's Amsterdam Debut with GRIMM Gallery

    Juxtapoz Magazine Nov 11, 2019
    Read more
  • Loie Hollowell's inaugural exhibition at GRIMM News

    Loie Hollowell's inaugural exhibition at GRIMM

    Opening reception 22 Nov, 5 - 7 pm, Keizergracht 241, Amsterdam (NL) Nov 1, 2019
    GRIMM is proud to present One opening leads to another by Loie Hollowell (b. 1983, Woodland, CA, US). The exhibition opens during Amsterdam Art Weekend...
    Read more
  • Loie Hollowell: Plumb Line Press

    Loie Hollowell: Plumb Line

    The Brooklyn Rail Oct 1, 2019
    Read more
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