Loie Hollowell: Plumb Line

Loie Hollowell, Emma Enderby, Elissa Auther, and Iris Cushing2020New York-based painter Loie Hollowell (born 1983) has evolved a dynamic vocabulary of dimensionality, color, and geometric shape. Abstracting the human figure, Hollowell’s paintings explore the dualities of light, volume, and scale, blurring the lines between the illusory and the real. In particular, her latest body of work explores her relationship to different stages of her pregnancy from conception to birth to motherhood. Nonetheless, the subject matter in Hollowell’s work often emerges through phenomenological encounters rather than narrative content, tapping the depth of the artist’s embodied experience.This catalog for Hollowell's exhibition Plumb Line, an inaugural show at Pace Gallery's new headquarters in New York, features nine large-scale paintings, as well as installation shots, and deploys die-cut colored pages as a compositional element. An essay by Emma Enderby and a conversation between the artist and Elis