Online Loie Hollowell Going Soft Jun 30 – Jul 14, 2020 Loie Hollowell’s pastel drawings for Going Soft explore the physical and psychological experiences of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Serving as abstracted self-portraits, each drawing reveals the artist's interior psyche at the time of the work’s creation. Read More Loie Hollowell, Empty belly, full breasts, September 20, 2019, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 cm) Learn More This series began with pastel drawings made by Hollowell after her first pregnancy. At the time, the artist was preparing for Plumb Line, her September 2019 exhibition at Pace’s new gallery in New York. The series has since continued into the first half of 2020 while Hollowell was in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, before and after the birth of her second child. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Loie Hollowell Empty belly, full breasts September 20, 2019 soft pastel and graphite on paper 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 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, Descent into chaos, June 1, 2020, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 20" × 26" (50.8 cm × 66 cm) Learn More Hollowell’s recent drawings mark a shift in the artist’s visual language towards a new sense of fluidity, depicting an intensity in form, texture and color, and a departure from the symmetrical composition of her earlier works.Through experimentation with horizontal fields and organic shapes, Hollowell harnesses the primal energy flowing between mother and child. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Loie Hollowell Descent into chaos June 1, 2020 soft pastel and graphite on paper 20" × 26" (50.8 cm × 66 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, Deep tear, March 30, 2020, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 cm) Learn More In Deep Tear and Postpartum Belly Void (both 2020), a central beam pierces darkened spheres and dissolves in amorphous churning forms, gesturing to both the physical experience of birth and the surreal transformation of the psyche. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Loie Hollowell Deep tear March 30, 2020 soft pastel and graphite on paper 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 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, Post-pregnant belly and boobs, June 17, 2020, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 cm) Learn More “Letting go of control in my process gave way for a sort of catharsis in my personal life. By expressing my psychological state through form, color, and texture I was able to create with more immediacy and improvisation in my work. Muddled, unorganized, and loosely rendered, compared to my earlier drawings, this series reveals the journey of my psyche, acting as chapters to my transforming mental state through both pregnancies and births of my children into a world that I have little control over.”Loie Hollowell Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Loie Hollowell Post-pregnant belly and boobs June 17, 2020 soft pastel and graphite on paper 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 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 For Hollowell, drawing is interchangeable with painting as a primary part of her practice. The two are inextricably woven together as one continuously informs the other. Read More Loie Hollowell, Yellow Ovum, March 24, 2019, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 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 Yellow Ovum March 24, 2019 soft pastel and graphite on paper 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 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 “Every piece comes from drawing. I do a bunch of really quick sketches and doodles in my little nighttime journal. That will develop into a drawing and if I really like it, I will grid it out and grid that out on to the canvas and leave it around in case I want to paint on it later. Sometimes a drawing will inspire another drawing, on another canvas. I won’t even go to paper, I’ll just draw it out on the canvas. And then that might lead to a drawing on paper, which might lead to another painting. Sometimes a painting can do what I want better than a drawing, and sometimes a drawing can do it better than a painting.”Loie Hollowell Read More Loie Hollowell, Yellow Ovum, 2019, oil paint, acrylic medium and high density foam on linen mounted on panel, 72-1/4" × 54-1/8" × 3-1/2" (183.5 cm × 137.5 cm × 8.9 cm) © Loie Hollowell Loie Hollowell, Birth, perspective from above and below, June 5, 2020, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 20" × 26" (50.8 cm × 66 cm) Learn More Hollowell’s relationship to the body, mind, and form in her drawings and paintings evokes the approaches of Georgia O’Keeffe and Judy Chicago. These are significant influences for Hollowell and were particularly present in the artist’s mind during this time of seclusion. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Loie Hollowell Birth, perspective from above and below June 5, 2020 soft pastel and graphite on paper 20" × 26" (50.8 cm × 66 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 Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Lake George Reflection, ca. 1921-22, oil on canvas, 58" x 34" (147.3 cm x 86.4 cm) © 2020 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York “In isolation, I wanted the company of the work of these artists in my mind. I wanted the freedom to let my influences be present. It allowed a new avenue to open up and it allowed me to find a new voice. I tried to care less about perfection and planning. I let the compositions emerge. I knew I had a few things to include compositionally and I let the forms come up around them.” Loie Hollowell Loie Hollowell, Perspective From Above and Below, April 23, 2020, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 20" × 26" (50.8 cm × 66 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 Perspective From Above and Below April 23, 2020 soft pastel and graphite on paper 20" × 26" (50.8 cm × 66 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 Judy Chicago, Birth Garment 1: Pregnant Amazon, 1984 © 2020 Judy Chicago / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Georgia O'Keeffe, Grey Lines with Black, Blue and Yellow, ca. 1923, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 76.2 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Huston, Texas. Museum purchase funded by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment Fund, photography by Bridgeman Image © 2020 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Loie Hollowell, Milk Spout, May 5, 2019, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 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 Milk Spout May 5, 2019 soft pastel and graphite on paper 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 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, Mechanics of a breast pump, April 6, 2020, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 20" × 26" (50.8 cm × 66 cm) Learn More Hollowell’s new works reflect on the physical reality of childbirth and motherhood. Each piece is grounded in the vital force of the body: spheres are halved and quartered into belly, hips, breasts, butt. The almond-shaped mandorla is at times a vagina, a glowing heart space, or a reference to the mind placed at the top of the spine. With nipples spouting milk and hands reaching, Hollowell’s abstractions point to the swirl of postpartum life that is dominated by the needs of others. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Loie Hollowell Mechanics of a breast pump April 6, 2020 soft pastel and graphite on paper 20" × 26" (50.8 cm × 66 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 Senga Nengudi, R.S.V.P, first realized in 1975, courtesy of the artist © Senga Nengudi Hollowell’s work calls to mind other artists who have explored the psychological space of motherhood, such as Senga Nengudi and Louise Bourgeois, among others.“I'd just had my two children and was fascinated with this issue of pregnancy, how you expand beyond all recognition sometimes. And then your body is so resilient and just bounces back into shape—well, pretty much so. There was also the elasticity of the psyche during pregnancy, this constant resilience that the body enacts.”Senga Nengudi Loie Hollowell, Trickle Down, March 24, 2020, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 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 Trickle Down March 24, 2020 soft pastel and graphite on paper 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 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 Louise Bourgeois, The Birth, 2007, gouache on paper, 23-½" x 18" (60 x 46 cm), Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, photography by Ron Amstutz Loie Hollowell, Postpartum belly void, May 27, 2020, soft pastel and graphite on paper, 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 cm), paper 32-5/8" × 26-1/2" (82.9 cm × 67.3 cm), frame Learn More While approaches to form and material diverge in each artist’s practice, their shared visual language suggests that the lived experience of pregnancy and postpartum life is an abstract temporal reality, charged with psychological depth and offering new perspectives that propel artistic practice forward. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Loie Hollowell Postpartum belly void May 27, 2020 soft pastel and graphite on paper 26" × 20" (66 cm × 50.8 cm), paper 32-5/8" × 26-1/2" (82.9 cm × 67.3 cm), frame 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 To inquire about works by Loie Hollowell, please email inquiries@pacegallery.com. Read More Loie HollowellLoie Hollowell is recognized for her paintings that evoke bodily landscapes and sacred iconography, using geometric shapes to move a figure or its actions into abstraction. Originating in autobiography, her work explores themes of sexuality, often through allusions to the human form with an emphasis on women’s bodies.The investigation of autobiography became evident in Hollowell’s work from graduate school, 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 work then shifted toward abstraction, characterized by radiating symmetrical silhouettes and a pulsating color palette.Learn More Past, Loie Hollowell, Going Soft, Jun 30, 2020