Loie Hollowell and Harminder Judge: Love Letter

Loie Hollowell was born in 1983 in Woodland, California, and lives and works in New York, New York. She received a BFA from University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Existing between abstraction and representation, Hollowell’s vibrant and evocative paintings refer to human bodies as sites of sensuality and sexuality, desire and disgust, pleasure and pain. Originating in autobiography, her work explores themes of sexuality, pregnancy and birth. In referencing her own personal experiences, Hollowell’s paintings are at once personal and universal in their fierce vulnerability. Her use of symmetry – often anchoring her compositions in a central, singular axis – relates her paintings to her own body as well as the natural world.

Harminder Judge lives and works in London. His practice explores processes of spiritual and material transformation while drawing from a diverse array of sources for inspiration, including a funeral pyre on his family’s farm in rural Punjab, India, and the rebuilding of a 1930’s bungalow in South Yorkshire, England. With references to the Abstract Expressionist and color field movements of the 20th century as well as traditions of Neo-Tantric painting, Judge’s works negotiate the boundaries of color, form, and composition to create transportive portals that bridge the physical and metaphysical. His intensive process involves layering pigments into pools of wet plaster followed by prolonged periods of excavation in the form of sanding, oiling, and polishing.

Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., has curated the exhibitions John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, Van Gogh Museum), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (Tate Britain and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), and River Crossings (Olana and Cedar Grove, Hudson and Catskill, New York). He is a co-author of the monograph Cecily Brown (Phaidon, 2020), and a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.