Artistic view of female form before and after birth
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The first solo exhibition of American artist Loie Hollowell in China, 鈥淟oie Hollowell: Recalibrate,鈥 is underway at the Long Museum (West Bund) through July 11.
Created over the last two years, the canvases are part of the 鈥淧lumb Line鈥 series, which address the artist鈥檚 embodiment of pregnancy and render the transfiguration of the female body in stages of prenatal and postpartum existence.
鈥淏eauty for me is not just visual, it is also experiential,鈥 says Hollowell.
鈥淚 want the viewers who come to know not necessarily what I was trying to tell them about, say, my birth experience, but absorb an impression of brightness or richness or radiance that has something to do with their relationship to their own body.鈥
Born in Woodland, California, in 1983, Hollowell received a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
As her canvases evolved into figurative paintings, taking the female body as her subject, and then shifted toward abstraction, she began to break up and divide the figure within her frame.
She developed a pared-down visual language characterized by vibrant hues, varied textures, the repetition of geometric forms and compositional symmetry.
Her use of symmetry 鈥 often anchoring her compositions in a central singular axis 鈥 relates her paintings to her own body as the natural world.
Hollowell鈥檚 paintings are also a delight of light and shadow.
In some paintings, such as the 鈥淩ed Hole鈥 in 2019, there is a throbbing sphere encircles the figure. A white light glistens from its outermost edges while graduations of color deepen inward to the depths and shaded darkness of the center apex.
This entry point is where night meets day, a collision of worlds from one gateway to the next.
Employing egg-shaped forms, the artist aims to engage with meditations of fertility and fecundity in the postpartum period.
Dates: Through July 11 (closed on Mondays), 10am-5:30pm
Venue: Long Museum West Bund
Address: 3398 Longteng Ave
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