Pace Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Loie Hollowell at its London gallery, on view from March 4 through May 23, 2026. Overview Effect, the artist’s first presentation in the UK since 2018, will feature new paintings from her series of the same name, which uses abstraction to capture the sensations of contractions during childbirth. These works mark a perspective shift in Hollowell’s practice and underscore her interest in the relationship between shifting scales of consciousness. The presentation follows her first retrospective, Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years, which was held at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut, in 2024 and traveled to the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2025.
For over ten years, Hollowell’s paintings and drawings have explored the bodily landscape and its sensations through geometric compositions of symbolic shapes, such as the mandorla, ogee, and lingam, alongside harmonious gradations of color. Autobiographical in nature, much of her work distills the physical and psychic changes of her own body. For her last exhibition at Pace’s London gallery in 2018, Hollowell presented sculpted paintings and works on paper that, through abstractions of the human form and evocations of sacred iconography, considered the act of conception. Since then, she has created work exploring her experiences of pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding, representing the emotional states of motherhood through repetition, serialization, and the nuanced use of color.
The Overview Effect paintings are named after the term used by astronauts to describe the experience of seeing Earth from space, and the profound, transcendental feelings of awe and connection to others that it can produce.
