| Intro | American painter, b. 1983 |
| Is | Painter |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Arts |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1983, Woodland, United States of America |
| Age: | 37 years |
Loie Hollowell is an American painter. She was born in 1983 in St. Peter, Minnesota, and currently lives and works in New York City.
Hollowell creates abstract biomorphic paintings that suggest spirituality and sexuality. Hollowell’s work is inspired by tantric painting traditions, and she has been compared to the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. She is represented by Pace Gallery.
Education
Hollowell holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Work
Hollowell’s paintings have been described as “abstract body landscapes” by Martha Schwendener of the New York Times. Hollowell often employs the mandorla shape to represent vaginal imagery, and the ogee, which originates from Islamic architecture, to represent breasts. Genevieve Allison of ArtForum writes that “Unlike many practitioners of the straight male imagination who violently deconstruct and distort the female body (think Picasso, de Kooning, Koons, Currin, and Carroll Dunham), Hollowell suspends body parts not as isolated sexual organs but as elements of a vital and coherent cosmology.”
Solo exhibitions
- Loie Hollowell: Lost¸ National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canora, Canada, December 20, 2008–January 20, 2009.
- Loie Hollowell: I Repeat Myself, Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, October 1–31, 2008.
- Loie Hollowell: Middle Ground¸ Richmond International Airport, Virginia, November 1, 2011–February 27, 2012.
- Loie Hollowell: Middle Ground¸ Richmond International Airport, Virginia, November 1, 2011–February 27, 2012.
- Loie Hollowell: Mother Tongue, Feuer/Mesler, New York, October 27–December 18, 2016.
- Loie Hollowell: Point of Entry, Pace Palo Alto, California, September 20–November 2, 2017.
- Loie Hollowell: Dominant / Recessive, Pace Gallery, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, August 28–September 20, 2018.
- Loie Hollowell: Switchback, Pace Gallery, 15C Entertainment Building, 30 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong, March 27–May 31, 2018.