Loie Hollowell: Overview Effect
Cover of Overview Effect, 2024 © Pace Gallery
Published on the occasion of Overview Effect, Loie Hollowell’s first solo presentation in Southern California at Pace in Los Angeles, this catalogue documents six of her largest works to date, each measuring eight by six feet, along with two multi-part nipple paintings. Illustrated with ample detail and installation images, this publication includes two new texts by Jennifer Higgie and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer that delve into the origins and development of the series, which takes its title from what astronauts describe as the “overview effect”—the experience of seeing Earth from space.
Loie Hollowell, Spectrum XVI, 2024 PAINTING oil paint, acrylic medium, aqua resin, epoxy resin, and sawdust on linen over panel 16 parts, each 12-1/8" × 9" × 2- 1/2" (30.8 cm × 22.9 cm × 6.4 cm) © Loie Hollowell, courtesy Pace Gallery
Publication details
Contributors: Jennifer Higgie, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2024
Softcover
60 pages: 28 color images
9.5 x 11.5 inches
ISBN: 9781948701778
Loie Hollowell, Overview Effect in red and yellow with small mandorla, 2024 PAINTING oil paint, acrylic medium, and high-density foam on linen over 96" × 72" × 4-1/2" (243.8 cm × 182.9 cm × 11.4 cm) © Loie Hollowell, courtesy Pace Gallery
About Artist
Loie Hollowell (b. 1983, raised in Woodland, California) is recognized for her paintings that evoke bodily landscapes, using geometric shapes to move a figure or its actions into abstraction. Her work explores themes of sexuality, often through allusions to the human form with an emphasis on women’s bodies. An investigation of autobiography became evident in Hollowell’s early work, which explored the use of gradient staining techniques on cotton supports as a metaphor for intimate spaces—meditations on sleep and bodily fluids. These canvases evolved into figurative painting, introducing female nudes as subject matter as well as the use of reflection and mirroring. Her subsequent work exhibited a shift toward abstraction, characterized by radiating silhouettes and a pulsating color palette. With its strong colors, varied textures, and geometrical symmetry, Hollowell’s practice is situated in lineage with the work of the Transcendental Painting Group (1938–1941), Georgia O’Keeffe, Gulam Rasool Santosh, and Judy Chicago.
Loie Hollowell, Overview Effect in red and yellow with large mandorla, 2024 PAINTING oil paint, acrylic medium, and high-density foam on linen over panel 96" × 72" × 4-1/2" (243.8 cm × 182.9 cm × 11.4 cm) © Loie Hollowell, courtesy Pace Gallery
Hollowell has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including, One opening leads to another, GRIMM Keizersgracht, Amsterdam (2019–2020); Recalibrate, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai (2021); Sacred Contract, Konig Galerie, Berlin (2021); Drawings as Urtext, The Anderson at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Richmond (2023). The artist’s first museum survey, Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years, is currently on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut. Her work has been included in over twenty group exhibitions including,10 Years Too Late, held at the Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin (2013); Mirror, Mirror, at the RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (2015); PaintersNYC, which opened at Páramo in Guadalajara, Mexico and traveled to El Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico (2015). Hollowell was featured in After Effect, held at Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2016), and her work was included in Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art, which opened in May 2018 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, and traveled to the New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, in 2019. Recently, her work has been included in Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2022); Put It This Way: (RE)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2022–2023); Being in the World, Long Museum, Shanghai (2023); and x PINK 101, X Museum, Beijing.
Arte Realizzata did an exhibition showcase on this exhibition, which can be found here. The book can be preordered here. For more information about other titles from Pace Publishing, visit here; please visit Pace Gallery’s website here for more information about past, current, and future exhibits. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too.
