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Loie Hollowell, Five Centimeters Dilated

Loie HollowellFive Centimeters Dilated, 2023

soft pastel on paper

26-1/2" × 30-1/2" (67.3 cm × 77.5 cm) framed, 29-15/16" × 33-15/16"

About the artist

Loie Hollowell Known for paintings and drawings that explore the bodily landscape, Loie Hollowell’s practice exists in the liminal space between abstraction and figuration, otherworldly and corporeal. Originating in autobiography, her work explores themes of sexuality, pregnancy and birth. Hollowell’s geometric compositions use symbolic shapes such as the mandorla, ogee, and lingam to build her distinctive visual lexicon. In referencing her own personal experiences, Hollowell’s paintings are at once personal and universal in their fierce vulnerability. Her use of symmetry – often anchoring her compositions in a central, singular axis – relates her paintings to her own body as well as the natural world.

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