A t once beguiling, sensual and sacred, Standing in Red (2019) is emblematic of New York-based artist Loie Hollowell’s highly acclaimed oeuvre. Evoking the mystic energy of symbolic iconography, the present work demonstrates Hollowell’s characteristic synthesizing of light, colour and form to produce powerful compositions which explore the female body. Undulating with pulsating rhythms and radiant patterns, Standing in Red expands upon the artist’s dynamic use of dimensionality, colour and abstract geometries to compose otherworldly landscapes that challenge our perceptions of the relationship between the body and space. 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.

Arranged in modular forms along sculptural lines, the radiating energy of the pulsating red half-spheres of Standing in Red draws the viewer’s gaze into the central compositional line. Interrupting the two-dimensionality of the painted surface with high-density, geometric forms, Hollowell extends the physical presence of her work. From afar, Standing in Red appears flat, yet as the viewer moves closer, these three-dimensional shapes and the intricate textures of the artist’s brushwork emerge. Delicate laceworks of pigment produce a tangible, hair-like texture on the canvas, imbuing the present work with a fierce physicality, an effect only heightened by the scale of the work. Measuring to the height of the artist’s fully erect frame, Standing in Red is amongst the largest and most structural work of Hollowell’s to date. Using symmetry, colour and abstract iconography, Hollowell maps a cartography of psychic space, using her own body as a reference point. 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.

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 rounded design of the present work elevates the singular flatness of geometrical abstraction into a visceral and seductive sculptural sphere. 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.

《站 立於紅色》極度迷人，充滿誘惑而又神聖，是霍洛韋爾的經典佳作。霍洛韋爾現居紐約，作品廣獲讚譽。本作讓人聯想起宗教或具象徵意義的圖案所蘊含的神秘力量，充份展現霍洛韋爾利用光綫、色彩和形狀來探索女性身體主題、極具感染力的藝術創作。作品曲綫起伏如節奏脈動，圖案明亮，與霍洛韋爾巧妙利用維度，顏色和抽象幾何形狀構成恍如世外風景的手法一脈相承，挑戰觀者對身體與空間關係的理解。霍洛韋爾1982年在美國加州伍德蘭市出生，於加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校攻讀美術，2005年完成美術學士學位。霍洛韋爾的作品多以自身經驗為創作過程的起點，探討性與肉慾、懷孕和生育等主題。她利用曼陀羅、表反曲線（ogee）和林伽等具有象徵意義的形狀來構建她獨特的視覺詞彙，她的藝術作品脆弱而又大膽，引用個人經歷，具有個人意義同時又能引起公衆共鳴。

作品將如組件般的圖案沿著如雕塑起伏的綫條精心排列，一個又一個的紅色半球體自有脈動節奏，散發能量，引領觀者注視構圖中心的直綫。霍洛韋爾以高密度的幾何形狀打斷畫面的二維性，賦予作品一種實質的、立體的存在感。作品遠觀顯得平坦，然而越是近觀，立體的形狀和筆觸的精細紋理越見清晰。畫布上，顔料構成精緻如蕾絲、具有質感的紋理，為作品注入一種立體質感，而這種效果配合作品龐大的尺幅變得加倍强烈。作品的高度和霍洛韋爾直立時的高度相同，是她迄今尺幅最大、結構感最强的作品。霍洛韋爾利用對稱、顔色和抽象符號，利用自己的身體作參考，為内心世界製圖。《站立於紅色》最精彩的地方是它對女性胴體各種概念的建構，引發觀者思考與女性相關的經歷與情感，激發本能與靈性之間的火花。

霍洛韋爾的畫作跨越抽象與具象、繪畫和雕塑、自傳式主題以及性、生育能力和分娩等身與心的經歷，以收放自如、時聚時散、如脈搏跳動的漸變色彩為特徵。她的作品與重要美國藝術家喬治亞・歐姬芙和朱迪・芝加哥等一脈相承，而與這一系的藝術家比較，霍洛韋爾的作品對情色的探索更爲深刻。本作的鮮艷的色彩和圓形的設計將幾何抽象的平坦化成雕塑式的球體，發自肺腑而又性感誘人。霍洛韋爾的作品備受追捧，經常亮相美國、歐洲、英國和香港的群展和個展。 2021年，上海龍美術館為她舉辦了在中國大陸的首場個人展覽。