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, Hollowellââ¬â¢s vibrant and evocative paintings refer to human bodies as sites of sensuality and sexuality, desire and disgust, pleasure and pain.