The Californian artist started her 12 months in a stark, starry method, by presenting her 2019 work, Mandorla Squeeze instead cowl for Girl Gaga’s Fame Monster, in a present at LA County Museum of Artwork, as a part of the present Artists Impressed by Music: Interscope Reimagined.

The exhibition invited visible artists, together with Cecily Brown, Rashid Johnson, Takashi Murakami, and Ed Ruscha, to pick albums and songs from the LA file label Interscope’s catalog, and match the recordings with their very own works.

Loie’s selection for Girl Gaga’s 2009 album could look summary, but it surely was crammed with salty symbolism. “The mandorla is a logo I make use of as a illustration of the vagina,” she defined. “Right here specifically, experiencing the pressures of sexuality, and the additional scrutiny placed on us as girls, whereas on the identical time being honored and highlighted as a strong jewel-like emblem. A becoming and particular match for the surplus, sexualization, and underbelly of notoriety in Girl Gaga’s Fame Monster.”

The LA artist’s work additionally featured on the Los Angeles Frieze artwork honest, which was held in Beverly Hills  in February. Hollowell’s gallery, Tempo, positioned a choice of her new works on paper beside work by Paulina Olowska and Nigel Cooke, in addition to a Gazing Ball sculpture by Jeff Koons; drawings by David Byrne; and sculptures by Sonia Gomes, Fred Wilson, and Louise Nevelson.

The next month, Tempo staged a solo exhibition for the artist in Palm Seaside, exhibiting a sequence of her sculptural, mandala-like work. The present was entitled Contractions, and was impressed by childbirth.

“These works are an extension of an concept that I first explored in a ​nine-part portray sequence, the place every break up opening was consultant of the 9 centimeters of dilation the cervix should bear in preparation to push out a child,” the artist mentioned on the time. “I see the consecutive nature as a type of meditation, with every opening capturing the feeling of that second of dilation. So, when the works are considered in totality, you are transferring via the act of giving delivery in time and area. You step from one to the opposite, from one contraction to the subsequent.”

March additionally noticed Hollowell break her US public sale file, when the Clars Public sale Gallery in California bought her 2017 work Level of Entry (Blood-Orange Moon Over Orange Sac), for $1,050,000. This didn’t breach her world file, which nonetheless stands at $2,126,817, set in 2021 at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong for her 2018 portray, Linked Lingams (yellow, inexperienced, blue, purple, pink). Nevertheless, it did each set a brand new US excessive, and a brand new file for Clars too; certainly, it was the primary lot to surpass the million-dollar mark within the public sale home’s 50-year historical past. 

In Could, Tempo stored that East Asian curiosity within the artist’s work alive with an exhibition at its gallery in Seoul, that includes Hollowell’s mind work. These semi-abstract work have been partially impressed by the artist’s father, who suffered surprising and extreme traumatic mind damage in 2021, on account of a fall from a ladder.

LOIE HOLLOWELL – Yellow Mind, 2022

“Because of the emotional depth round that occasion, she started to consider how she might create a formally minimal investigation of the mind whereas concurrently participating with the pure pleasure of colour, in order to take her thoughts from the problem of the familial scenario,” defined Tempo.

Summer time is the group present season within the artwork world, and Hollowell’s work was featured in not one however two of those exhibitions.

The Manhattan gallery Sperone Westwater hung her work alongside items by Corydon Cowansage, Rico Gatson and Dan Perkins, in its June-July providing, Sample Recognition, which explored the formal qualities of abstraction.

In the meantime, in London, the US artist Rose Nestler positioned Hollowell’s artwork in Now I’m a lake, the group present she curated for the Public gallery. Its title got here from a Sylvia Plath poem, and it drew works that discover “the literal and metaphorical ins and outs of residing amongst a world of reflective surfaces confronting our mortality and exploring its depths.”

In September, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Artwork on the College of California, Davis, hosted the artist’s first institutional exhibition, with a present of Hollowell’s mushy pastel drawings. Entitled Tick Tock Stomach Clock, the works, which have been created throughout the pandemic, illustrates the very important position drawing performs inside her follow.

In October, because the leaves started to fall, the artist flexed her digital skills, making a sequence of NFTs for Tempo Verso, her gallery’s Web3 arm. Proceeds from these childbirth-inspired works, primarily based on her Contractions sequence, went to pro-abortion non-profits, Midwest Entry Coalition and ARC Southeast.

That very same month, Hollowell made a play for feminine empowerment in actual life, when she took half within the present, Earth Seed at White Dice in Paris. The gallery’s senior director Susanna Greeves confirmed the the artist’s work alongside items by Julie Curtiss and Marguerite Humeau, in Earthseed, an exhibition impressed by a matriarchal cult of the identical title within the post-apocalyptic fiction of the late Californian author, Octavia E. Butler.

“The works on this exhibition resonate with the notion of journey to outer area and internal area,” defined the gallery, “in numerous methods contemplating the feminine physique as a web site of transformation in addition to a portal for the creativeness.”

Within the US, in November, Hollowell’s worth climbed even greater, when her 2016-19 portray, Lick, Lick in Purple, maroon yellow, bought for $1,361,000 at Phillips in New York – a brand new US excessive.

Not a foul technique to spherical off the 12 months, however Hollowell is already wanting ahead to 2023, with a talking engagement on the Hirshhorn subsequent March, when she’s going to focus on artwork, spirituality, and the feminine type with curator Betsy Johnson. Can’t wait till then? Then why not spend money on a good looking Hollowell print? Her Artspace version,  Yellow Mind, 2022, is on the market as an eight-layer embossed screenprint on Somerset 300 gsm paper. Discover out extra right here.