Loie Hollowell

Loie Hollowell (b. 1983, Woodland, California) creates colour-saturated geometric canvases where bodily forms become cosmic abstractions. Her paintings merge phallic and vulvic imagery with mandala patterns and planetary shapes, giving the intimate experiences of sex, pregnancy, and embodied femininity a sense of universal resonance. She builds dimensionality into her surfaces using sawdust and foam board, creating tactile reliefs that push painting toward sculpture. Hollowell's practice draws from Agnes Pelton, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Judy Chicago, as well as the California Light and Space Movement and Neo-Tantric painters like Ghulam Rasool Santosh and Biren De. Her first museum survey, Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years, was showcased at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2024) and travelled to ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University (2024-2025). Her work is held by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. She is represented by Pace Gallery and lives in New York.