Loie Hollowell

Loie Hollowell was born in 1983. She was raised in Woodland, California , the oldest of four siblings. Both her parents are artists. Her father is a pointillist, realist painter who taught at UC Davis, her mother a cartoonist and garment-maker, who specializes in making clothes that pop under black light at Burning Man.

Hollowell received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2005 and her Master of Fine Arts in Painting at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012.

In 2011 she was awarded a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. In 2013 she was awarded the Queens Arts Fund Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts and a Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Summer Residency.

Hollowell works in a variety of medium including pastels, acrylics, oils and woodcuts on linen, foam, sawdust and aluminum.

Her work focuses on the female form, exploring her own experience with sexuality, pregnancy and childbirth.

Hollowell’s works can me found in the permanent collection of  the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC and other major venues. Her painting, Standing in Red sold for $2.29mn at Sotheby’s Hong Kong in 2023. 

Love Hollowell lives and works in New York with her husband, sculptor Brian Caverly, and  their two children.

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