Loie Hollowell: Plumb Line

Loie Hollowell: Plumb Line

540 W. 25th Street New York, NY 10001, USA Saturday, September 14, 2019–Saturday, October 19, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14, 2019, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.


The artist’s premiere exhibition with Pace in New York will take place in the new building’s second floor gallery. The exhibition will showcase a series of new large-scale paintings that continue Hollowell’s investigation of bodily landscapes and sacred iconography through allusions to the human form. Drawing inspiration from artists like Agnes Pelton, Georgie O’Keefe, and Judy Chicago, Hollowell’s works abstract the most intimate parts of the human body into primal shapes, such as the mandora and the lingam, in an examination of sexuality, conception, birth, and motherhood. In each work, the artist utilizes color and dimensionality—at times manipulating the canvas with three-dimensional forms—to amplify the phenomenological presence of her corporeal compositions.