Loie Hollowell and Experiential Beauty

Beauty for me is not just visual, it is also experiential. I want the viewer to come away not necessarily knowing what I was trying to tell them about, say, my birth experience, but absorbing an impression of brightness or richness or radiance that has something to do with their relationship to their own body.

Nina Chanel Abbey and the Tolerable Taboo

Easy to swallow, hard to digest. The playfulness of my work is a result of my use of vivid colours and my interest in satirical cartoons. I love the fact that anything taboo suddenly becomes tolerable as long as it’s not real.

Andy Warhol on Seeing

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Josef Albers on Abstraction

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I prefer to see with closed eyes.