A Closer Look at the Loie Hollowell-curated Romancing the Surface @ Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam
February 04, 2021 | in Installation
As we previously previewed in our Winter Quarterly, Grimm Gallery is currently hosting a major group exhibition curated by Loie Hollowell, taking over both of their Amsterdam spaces.
Romancing the Surface features works by nine artists who explore the sensorial dynamics of materiality in relation to the physical nature of both painting and sculpture, and we were lucky to have a closeup look and fully enjoy these highly tactile works this past week.
The exhibition itself was planned a long time ago as a celebration of sorts, a way to start a new year by showing works from artists that never exhibited in the city before (besides Hollowell and Louise Giovanelli), and provide art lovers a chance to experience these captivating works in person. With a great focus on utilizing the materiality of the mediums or creating an illusion of sorts on the ver
Loie Hollowell Curates Romancing the Surface @ GRIMM, Amsterdam
GRIMM // January 10, 2021 - March 01, 2021
January 06, 2021 | in Installation
“This is a group of artists who obviously enjoy the challenge of playing with form, texture, color and light and who don’t shy away from being hyper-attentive to surface, enthuses the critically acclaimed painter Loie Hollowell, who is on the precipice of curating her first show at Grimm in Amsterdam. It’s definitely time to pay attention when an artist like Hollowell, whose recent bodies of work are so unique, emerges on the contemporary art world stage and curates a show. Her ability to merge abstract and figurative elements into an almost surreal modernist aesthetic is at the vanguard of a group of like-minded painters who work with texture and material in original ways.