Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years opening on January 21 and on view to August 11, 2024
Advance ticket reservations recommended. Please visit thealdrich.org to plan your visit.
Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years is Loie Hollowell’s (b. 1983) first museum survey and first museum presentation on the East Coast. The exhibition includes paintings and works on paper made over a decade, the debut of new pastel drawings and paintings that incorporate life casts of pregnant breasts and bellies, as well as never before exhibited works on paper from the artist’s archive. This survey tracks the development of Hollowell’s visual language over a decade; a lexicon that bridges abstraction with figuration, autobiography with art history, and biology with emotion. Orbiting two centuries of pioneering women abstractionists, Hollowell’s luminous compositions are built with geometric forms, evocative of bellies, breasts, vulva, and buttocks that map her changing body from conception to pregnancy to motherhood, tracing the changes she endured after birthing two children, and abstracting the physical and emotional variations of each phase on her own body.