L uminous, mysteriously hypnotic and radiating a spiritual energy, Lady in Green is emblematic of New York-based artist Loie Hollowell’s highly acclaimed oeuvre. Painted in 2014, the present work demonstrates Hollowell’s characteristics synthesizing of light, colour and form to produce powerful compositions exploring sexual experience. At once beguiling, sensual and sacred, Hollowell’s work evokes the mystic energy of religious or symbolic iconography. Undulating with pulsating rhythms and radiant patterns, Lady in Green transform abstract geometries into depictions of sensuality. Her use of dramatic lighting create the illusion of depth, which Hollowell says are ‘those areas of chiaroscuro and high-intensity light are places of arousal’, she explains. ‘The pulsing light is like the body’s energy – the pulsing of sex or the pulsing of the heart’ (L. Hollowell, quoted in Wall Street International Magazine, 29 September 2017). Born in Woodland, California in 1982, Hollowell studied fine art at the University of California in Santa Barbara, graduating with a BFA in 2005. Originating in autobiography, her work explores themes of sexuality, pregnancy and birth. Whilst utilising symbolic shapes such as the mandorla, ogee, and lingam to build her distinctive visual lexicon, in referencing her own personal experiences, Hollowell’s paintings are at once personal and universal in their bold vulnerability.

Characterized by her impeccably vibrating gradients that expand, contract, merge and converge, Hollowell's paintings straddle abstraction and figuration, painting and sculpture, articulating autobiographical themes and physical and psychological experiences such as sexuality, fertility, and childbirth. Frequently compared to important American artists Georgia O'Keefe and Judy Chicago, Hollowell deliberately draws upon this lineage, encouraging erotic readings of her works beyond that of her predecessors. The vibrant hues and symmetrical design of the present work elevates the singular flatness of geometrical abstraction into a visceral and seductive sculptural sphere. In Lady in Green, the radiating energy and light of the pulsating yellow half-spheres draws the viewer’s gaze into the heart of the painting. The vibrant red along this central plane references Hollowell’s own body and notions of sensuality. A mesmerising example of the frisson between the visceral and the spiritual, the climax of this work constructs notions of the female nude, arousing intangible experiences and emotions particularly tied to the female condition. Highly sought after, Loie Hollowell's artworks have featured in group and solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Britain, and Hong Kong. In 2021, an exhibition at Shanghai's Long Museum marked the artist's first solo museum show in mainland China.

《綠衣女郎》閃爍著光芒，散發神秘的催眠力量，神采活現，是紐約藝術家洛伊・霍洛韋爾的一幅代表佳作。本作繪於2014年，霍洛韋爾綜合光、色彩和圖形，建構探索性愛體驗的震撼畫面。霍洛韋爾的作品迷人性感，卻又神聖莊嚴，充滿神秘的宗教或象徵意味。《綠衣女郎》中透著幽光的圖案伴隨脈搏節奏跳動，將抽象的幾何形狀轉化成感官的意象。畫中光暗對比誇張，產生一種讓人視覺錯亂的深度感，正如霍洛韋爾解釋︰「用上明暗法和加入高光的部分就是喚起肉慾的地方。光線的律動恍如身體的力量——性的律動，或心臟的律動」（引述L・霍洛韋爾，《華爾街國際雜誌》，2017年9月29日）。霍洛韋爾於1982年出生於加州伍德蘭，於加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校主修藝術，2005年修畢藝術學士學位。她的作品帶有自傳色彩，探討性愛、懷孕、生育等主題。她運用曼朵拉、蔥形拱、林伽等具象徵意義的形狀，建立出自成一格的視覺語彙，又在畫作融入個人經歷，作品大膽展露既私密又普遍的脆弱情感。

霍洛韋爾的創作大多色彩明豔，層層遞進地營造出擴大和收縮、融合和交會的幻覺，洋溢極致趣味，可謂融會抽象與具象、繪畫與雕塑的表現，既表達了自傳式主題，也講述諸如性愛、受孕、分娩等身體和心理的經歷。霍洛韋爾經常被人與喬治亞・歐姬芙和朱迪・芝加哥等重要美國藝術家相提並論，她也刻意借鑑這些藝術家，鼓勵觀者從情色方向解讀她的作品。本作用色亮麗，構圖設計對稱，將抽象平面的幾何圖形昇華至內斂的立體形態，魅惑迷人。《綠衣女郎》中的黃色半球體散發律動的能量和光芒，將觀者的目光吸引至畫面中心；落在中軸線上的鮮紅色塊則對照霍洛韋爾的身體和她對感官的想法。本作令人目眩神迷，讓觀者從內心到精神都不禁顫慄起來，畫中的高潮建構出女性裸體的概念，讓人感受與女性特別相關的無形經歷和情感。洛伊・霍洛韋爾的作品備受追捧，曾參與美國、歐洲、英國、香港等地的群展和個展。2021年，上海龍美術館舉行了霍洛韋爾在中國內地的第一場博物館級個展。