Alana Hernandez
& Carla Weeks
March 15 - April 5, 2025

Alanna Hernandez (b. 1988) grew up on Cape Cod, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010, where she earned a B.A. in Middle East Studies. During this time she gained some formal art training, as well as education in art history, history, and language. After graduating, she continued her art practice while training in yoga and meditation. Her work is a culmination of this combination of formal education in the arts and humanities, training in yoga and meditation, and self-taught art skills. She moved to Midcoast Maine in 2018 and currently resides in Union, Maine.

Alanna creates abstract work about trauma and connection. She is interested in how trauma is felt in our bodies, how it interrupts our lives, and how it ripples down through communities and generations. She explores the dynamics of human relationships and how power, compromise, and connection shape our experience. She uses abstract ribbon forms that are interrupted, pushed, pulled, or otherwise altered by external objects to explore these ideas. Moments of tension occur between the ribbons and these objects, or between the ribbons and themselves. Ribbons flow together: soaring, splitting, and dancing back and forth in a movement of give and take. She creates her drawings with layers of crosshatched colored pencil and wax pastel. It's a meditative process that results in a soft, textured work, and invites the viewer to look slowly, and stay present.

Carla Weeks (b. 1985) is a British-born painter and muralist based in Midcoast Maine. She uses abstraction to articulate the subtleties and nuance of sensory memory. In her work, color, line, and form function as glyphs to navigate through the physical and emotional experience of place. Carla’s quiet reflections on the immateriality of memory are a testament to her commitment to careful looking, feeling and existing within the present moment.

A  self-taught painter, Weeks holds a BA in Art History and a professional background in design that informs both her painting practice and multidisciplinary collaborative projects. She has shown work in Philadelphia, New York City, and across New England. She has held residencies at the Ellis Beauregard Foundation in Rockland, Monson Arts in Monson, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.

Jimena Losada Lacerna
April 19 - May 17, 2025

Jimena Losada Lacerna (b. 1990, Mendoza, Argentina) completed a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Art of UNCuyo, later moving to Rosario, and currently lives and works in Buenos Aires. In addition to developing her work in Mendoza, Rosario, and Buenos Aires, Jimena Losada has held solo exhibitions in institutions and galleries in these three cities. These include De espalda a la Luna (2019) at the annex of the Municipal Museum of Modern Art of Mendoza; Rincón Vago (2021) at Jamaica Gallery in Rosario; and Fangal (2023) curated by Claudia del Río at PASTO Gallery.

In her paintings, Jimena Losada delicately modifies the naturalism of color to create estranged atmospheres. Her artworks, impeccably crafted, are polished surfaces where the brush gesture becomes imperceptible under successive layers of pigments and glazes. With enormous freedom to take elements from the descriptive order and bring them into the narrative plane, or vice versa, even in the genres of portrait, her pictorial practice can be associated with the non-programmatic strands of surrealism that, although diuse, permeate the history of Argentine art.

Little River
Summer Residency
June 1 - August 3, 2025

Rooted in a commitment to amplifying new voices in contemporary art, our eight-week residency offers artists an opportunity to explore Miami’s distinctive subtropical environment. Hosted in PRIMARY’s 5,500 sq. ft. live/work space in Little River, the program fosters an atmosphere of focused studio practice, research, and creative development. Residents are invited to immerse themselves in Miami’s vibrant cultural landscape, discovering inspiration through exploration and connection.