\u201cI\u00a0want there to be more exhibits about mothering,\u201d says Loie Hollowell. An hour into our conversation, the New York-based painter is becoming more animated. We\u2019ve got on to the subject of the artists whose work she\u2019s been drawn\u00a0to, such as Swedish feminist Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 and her controversial 1960s canvas God Giving Birth<\/em>. \u201cMy dream is to create an\u00a0exhibition of visceral birth images, blood\u00a0everywhere,\u201d says Hollowell, a mother of two, laughing giddily. \u201cI have proposed it in different ways. No one has\u00a0taken me up on it yet. I\u2019m kind of joking, but I\u2019m not joking.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Hollowell\u2019s own paintings<\/a>, being shown\u00a0at Pace gallery in London next month, are\u00a0more vibrational than visceral. She describes the work she started making\u00a0more than a decade ago as \u201cbodily abstractions about my sexuality\u201d. They\u2019ve since evolved to encompass her experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding in compositions that are both intensely precise in their graphic symmetry and playfully suggestive in their placement of organic forms. Wrought in a spectrum of kaleidoscopic colours, they appear to exude a kind of cosmic energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s a heady combination that has swiftly propelled the 43-year-old to art star status. She has been represented by Pace since 2019; her work has been acquired by institutions including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and\u00a0the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC; and several pieces have attracted auction sales in seven figures \u2013 her Standing in Red<\/em><\/a> sold for $2.29mn at Sotheby\u2019s Hong Kong in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I first saw her work, I just flipped out,\u201d recalls Pace CEO Marc Glimcher. \u201cI\u00a0walked into her studio and it was like [seeing] the reincarnation of Hilma af Klint or Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, combined with a sensibility that resonates with Robert Irwin<\/a>. She just knows how to switch on\u00a0these systems of bliss and awe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n My dream is to create an\u00a0exhibition of visceral birth images, blood\u00a0everywhere<\/p>\n\n