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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.
Hollowell's market grew over 1,200% in three years — a trajectory validated by institutional collection (Centre Pompidou, Hirshhorn) and Pace Gallery representation. Her work occupies a unique intersection: the geometric precision of hard-edge abstraction with the sensuality of feminist body art. This positions her in art-historical lineage from O'Keeffe through Judy Chicago, but with a material innovation (sawdust/foam relief surfaces) that makes her paintings unmistakably physical. The museum survey at Aldrich signals institutional consensus.
Her dimensional relief paintings (built up with sawdust and foam) are the signature works — flat canvas works trade at lower multiples. The symmetrical mandala compositions with gradient colour transitions are most recognizable and sought-after. Works referencing pregnancy and the body command particular collector interest for their autobiographical depth. Pace Gallery is the primary market source.
Secondary market activity has been volatile — her rapid price appreciation attracted speculative buying in 2021-2022. Verify provenance on any secondary offering. Works on paper trade at significantly lower price points and may not track the trajectory of her relief paintings.
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