Loie Hollowell, Overview Effect at Pace London
Published on 08/22/2026 at 11:57 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Loie Hollowell returns to Pace London with Overview Effect, a 2026 series built around expanding color fields and sculpted forms. Pace says the show ran from March 4 through May 23, 2026, and presented new work from the series in London as the gallery states.
What Overview Effect adds
The London show marked Hollowell's first presentation in the UK since 2018. Pace describes the project as a focused body of new paintings that expands her study of pregnancy, birth, and consciousness.
The artist's own site also lists Overview Effect among her 2026 works and shows installation views from Pace London. That cross-check matters here, because Hollowell's practice is unusually tied to specific series and dates.
How the series reads now
In the gallery text, the paintings connect bodily sensation to orbital form. The orbs, mandorla shapes, and concentric ripples keep the work anchored in abstraction while still pointing back to the figure.
That balance is the core of Hollowell's recent output. She works with oil, acrylic medium, foam, resin, and layered surfaces to push painting toward relief without giving up color structure.
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The work core
Hollowell paints bodily experience as structure, not anecdote. Her recurring forms include Overview Effect, Split Orb, and the clock works shown on her studio site, all of which turn anatomy into geometry.
She is based in New York according to her public-facing gallery and studio materials, and Pace identifies her as born in 1983 and raised in Woodland, California. That biography helps explain why the work often folds California light, motherhood, and abstraction into one visual system.
Where the artist stands now
Loie Hollowell currently has no newly announced exhibition date in the 30-day window ending August 22, 2026.
Loie Hollowell at a glance
- Artist: Loie Hollowell
- Medium / Genre: Painting (abstract, relief-inflected)
- Born: 1983, Woodland, California
- Place(s) of practice: New York
- Active since: 2010s
- Key work groups: Overview Effect, Split Orb, Clock paintings
- Current/last exhibition: Overview Effect, Pace Gallery, London, March 4 - May 23, 2026
- Major collections: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Next date: currently no announced date in the 30-day window
Frequently asked questions about Loie Hollowell
Where was Loie Hollowell recently on view?
Her most recent verified solo exhibition in the available sources was Overview Effect at Pace London, on view from March 4 through May 23, 2026.
What defines Loie Hollowell's recent paintings?
They combine abstract color fields with relief-like forms, especially orbs, mandorlas, and concentric ripples. Pace links the series to childbirth, consciousness, and bodily perception.
Which public collections are connected to Loie Hollowell?
Available public-source material in this article confirms institutional visibility through The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
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