Loie Hollowell

New York–based artist Loie Hollowell (born 1983) is perhaps most known for her radiant oil paintings, which employ a visual lexicon of geometric forms and symbolic shapes, rendered in luminescent colors and seductive textures. The biomorphic forms of Hollowell’s works evoke bellies, breasts, vulva and buttocks, and abstract the physical and emotional transformations of the body throughout time as a way of appraising seismic issues from sexual freedom to feminism, reproductive rights and motherhood. This monograph tracks the development of Hollowell’s visual language over 10 years: a vocabulary that bridges abstraction with figuration, autobiography with art history and biology with emotion. Fully illustrated with lavish color reproductions and accompanied by a major new essay by Aldrich Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart, Space Between: A Survey of Ten Years invites readers to immerse themselves in the luminous world of Hollowell’s visionary creations.

New York-based painter Loie Hollowell (born 1983) has evolved a dynamic vocabulary of dimensionality, color and geometric shape. Abstracting the human figure, Hollowell’s paintings explore the dualities of light, and volume and scale, blurring the lines between the illusory and the real. In particular, her latest body of work explores her relationship to different stages of her pregnancy from conception to birth to motherhood. Nonetheless, subject matter in Hollowell’s work often emerges through phenomenological encounter rather than narrative content, tapping the depth of the artist’s embodied experience.

This catalog for Hollowell's exhibition Plumb Line, an inaugural show at Pace Gallery's new headquarters in New York, features nine large-scale paintings, as well as installation shots, and deploys die-cut colored pages as a compositional element. An essay by Emma Enderby and a conversation between the artist and Elissa Auther contextualize the work, and are complemented by poetry by Iris Cushing.