Art on a Postcard for War Child UK

About 

Known for paintings and drawings that explore the bodily landscape, Loie Hollowell’s practice exists in the liminal space between abstraction and figuration, otherworldly and corporeal. 

Originating in autobiography, her work explores themes of sexuality, pregnancy and birth. Hollowell’s geometric compositions use symbolic shapes such as the mandorla, ogee, and lingam to build her distinctive visual lexicon. In referencing her own personal experiences, Hollowell’s paintings are at once personal and universal in their fierce vulnerability. Her use of symmetry – often anchoring her compositions in a central, singular axis – relates her paintings to her own body as well as the natural world. 

With strong colors, varied textures, and geometric symmetry, Hollowell’s practice is situated in lineage with the work of American artists like Agnes Pelton, Georgia O’Keeffe and Judy Chicago. She is also greatly influenced by the work of the California Light and Space Movement as well as Neo-Tantric painters like Ghulam Rasool Santosh and Biren De. 

Education 

2012 - Master of Fine Arts in Painting at Virginia Commonwealth University 

2005 - Bachelor of Arts at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of the College of Creative Studies 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2020 

Online Viewing Room: Going Soft, Pace Gallery,  / June 30 - July 14, 2020  

2019 

One opening leads to another, GRIMM Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands / November 22, 2019 - January 4, 2020 

Plumb Line, Pace New York, New York, NY / September 14 - October 19, 2019 

2018 

Dominant / Recessive, Pace London, London, England / August 28 - September 20, 2018 

Switchback, Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China / March 27 - May 31, 2018 

2017 

Point of Entry, Pace Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA / September 20- November 2, 2017 

2016 

Mother Tongue, Feuer Mesler, New York, NY / October 27 - December 18, 2016 

Gallery Representation 

Pace Gallery 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork   

My postcard features a mandorla, a shape that I feel represents peace and wholeness. The artwork is graphite and soft pastel on paper. 

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