Solo exhibition of new paintings by Loie Hollowell opens at Pace Gallery
(Artdaily.org)

Pace Gallery inaugurated its global headquarters with a solo exhibition of new paintings by Loie Hollowell. Marking Hollowell’s debut exhibition with Pace in New York, Plumb Line features nine large‑scale paintings that expand upon the artist’s dynamic use of dimensionality, color and geometric shapes. Abstracting the human figure, Hollowell’s work explores the dualities of light, volume and scale, blurring the lines between the illusory and the real. In particular, this new body of work explores Hollowell’s relationship to different stages of her pregnancy from conception, to birth, to motherhood. Nonetheless, subject matter in Hollowell’s work often emerges through phenomenological encounter rather than narrative content, tapping the depth of the artist’s embodied experience. In Hollowell’s words: