Loie Hollowell


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, Hollowell suspends body parts not as isolated sexual organs but as elements of a vital and coherent cosmology."

Solo exhibitions