Loie Hollowell Overview Effect On View Nov 9, 2024 – Jan 18, 2025 Los Angeles EXHIBITION DETAILSLoie HollowellOverview EffectNov 9, 2024 – Jan 18, 2025GALLERY1201 South La Brea AvenueLos AngelesPRESSPress ReleaseCONNECT (opens in a new window) @loiehollowell (opens in a new window) @pacegalleryAbove: Loie Hollowell, Overview Effect in blue and red with large mandorla, 2024 © Loie Hollowell Pace is pleased to present Overview Effect, an exhibition of new paintings by Loie Hollowell, at its Los Angeles gallery. On view from November 9, 2024 to January 18, 2025, this will be the artist’s first solo presentation in Southern California, showcasing six of her largest works to date, each measuring eight by six feet, along with two new, intimately scaled, multi-part nipple paintings. Overview Effect follows Hollowell’s solo exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut—her first museum survey and first museum presentation on the East Coast, now on view at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute for Contemporary Art through March 9, 2025—and her recent show at Pace’s New York gallery, Dilation Stage.Her upcoming exhibition in LA takes its title from what astronauts describe as the “overview effect”—the experience of seeing Earth from space. From that vantage point, the planet becomes a unified whole without borders or boundaries, a single system of which humanity is a tiny part.In her new Overview Effect paintings, Hollowell gives viewers a bold first impression: searing our retinas with the force of bright color, extreme lighting, symmetry, and strong geometries that take on larger-than-life proportions. Stare for a while, and you will feel the paintings’ lasting effects as afterimages linger over your field of vision and leave a psychic mark. The limited palette in this body of work, based on primary colors and their combinations, suggests something basic and elemental floating in the cosmic soup.But looking longer and closer, something else happens—a tension between strict compositional order and localized mark-making, between overall tightness and areas of looseness, between mathematical precision and hand-painted, jumbled chaos. The dynamic between these contradictory aspects is complex, with stability containing instability, symmetry and geometry emerging from entropy. This rapport between the overview effect and the works’ up-close details depends on proximity. What appear from a distance as luminous orbs, celestial bodies, and blended colors shift into new focus as tangles of swirling, frenetic lines that imply hidden dimensions zip through our own frequencies and pass undetected through this field of existence.Hollowell’s twisted, kinky mark-making captures states and sensations of heightened energy. The calligraphic looping of her lines implies a deeper relationship with writing and communication, reminding us that the primary aim of her aesthetic project is to record a subjective, bodily experience of feeling.The Overview Effect paintings depict two identically sized orbs stacked vertically with concentric ripples that intersect to form a horizontal mandorla. Here, Hollowell uses abstraction to capture the brief moments and breaks between contractions during childbirth, which can be a simultaneously out-of-body experience and a thoroughly visceral, embodied one. In each of these paintings, one orb bulges out while the other is a cavity—they could nest inside one another, like a hand or mouth cupped over a breast or like a child filling a pregnant mother’s belly.In the gallery’s adjacent space, Hollowell will exhibit her rainbow suite of 16 small paintings, her smallest works to date, each spiked near the top with a protruding nipple cast from the bodies of her breastfeeding friends. Titled Spectrum XVI (an invocation of Ellsworth Kelly’s monumental Spectrum V) and spanning the full spectrum of color— from blue to green, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, and back to blue—this multi-part work is an exercise in both smooth transitions and stark contrast. A “milking line” drops straight down from each raised nipple, sharply delineating a bright highlight on the left and a dark shadow on the right. A fold, a crease, a pleat, a peak: the nipple designates a dividing line and a kind of crucible of intense chroma. The plumb line conjures the glowing, revolving arm of a radar map while connoting the time-keeping function and cyclicality of a sundial. As in the Overview Effect paintings, Hollowell’s technical prowess produces confusing and captivating trompe-l’oeil illusions that both hyperbolize and complicate real dimensionality.The juxtaposition of these groups of paintings in Hollowell’s presentation in LA underscores her interest in shifting scales, from the micro to the macro and back again, from deep within oneself to far beyond it. Read More Featured Works Loie Hollowell, Overview Effect in yellow and blue with large mandorla, 2024, 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) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Loie Hollowell Overview Effect in yellow and blue with large mandorla 2024 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) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Loie Hollowell, Overview Effect in blue and red with small mandorla, 2024, 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) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Loie Hollowell Overview Effect in blue and red with small mandorla 2024 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) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Loie Hollowell, Overview Effect in red and yellow with large mandorla, 2024, 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) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Loie Hollowell Overview Effect in red and yellow with large mandorla 2024 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) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Loie Hollowell, Overview Effect in yellow and blue with small mandorla, 2024, 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) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Loie Hollowell Overview Effect in yellow and blue with small mandorla 2024 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) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Loie Hollowell, Overview Effect in blue and red with large mandorla, 2024, 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) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Loie Hollowell Overview Effect in blue and red with large mandorla 2024 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) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Loie Hollowell, Overview Effect in red and yellow with small mandorla, 2024, 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) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Loie Hollowell Overview Effect in red and yellow with small mandorla 2024 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) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Loie Hollowell, Spectrum XVI, 2024, 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) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Loie Hollowell Spectrum XVI 2024 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) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back About the ArtistLoie Hollowell 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.Learn More Journal View All Essays Love Letter, by Charlotte Jansen Jan 12, 2023 Artist Projects Art Blocks x Pace Verso Miami NFT Exhibition Nov 17, 2022 Essays Loie Hollowell in Conversation Nov 08, 2022 Pace Verso Loie Hollowell: Contractions Sep 27, 2022 Overview Featured Works About the Artist Journal