June 27th–September 12th, 2025
Artist’s Reception : Wednesday, July 22nd 4pm - 6pm
This summer Working Loose and La Loma bring together fourteen artists working across the land for the group exhibition; Littoral Zone: Margins of Light. Though separated by vast distances, these artists are linked by a shared attentiveness to light, atmosphere and environment. From the Pacific’s expansive, sunbleached horizon to the diffused radiance in the Atlantic’s rocky inlets, each geography shapes perception differently. Across regions, their practices remain in conversation, connected by a slow but sustaining exchange—like light traveling through shallow water, altered but persistent.
Littoral Zone takes its name from this sunlit edge of a body of water—the place where light reaches the bottom and life gathers. Neither fully land nor fully sea, the littoral zone is a threshold space: porous and dynamic yet sustaining. Shaped by tides and touch, where land and water continually negotiate their boundaries, this exhibition draws on that ecological definition to consider how distance, geography, and shared attention can generate a living, interconnected field.
Working in a range of mediums, the artists reflect the diversity and adaptability of the littoral zone itself. Materials shift, overlap, and respond to one another, emphasizing process, permeability, and transformation rather than fixed categories. Each artist understands light not only as illumination, but as connection. Littoral Zone proposes the exhibition space as an ecosystem—fragile, adaptive, and alive—dependent on this interconnection to thrive. The artwork on view becomes a site of encounter: between artist and viewer, representation and abstraction, observation and participation.
Artists include Ryan Kish (ME), Kelly Lynn Jones (LA), Jarid del Deo (ME), Nancy Friedland (CAN), Skylar Hughes (LA), Kathryn Lynch (NY/ME), Carrie Gundersdorf (NY), Sam Finkelstein (ME), Will Sears (ME), Raina Lee (LA), Rebecca Partridge (AUS), Drea Cofield (NY), Alexander Nolan (ME), Lauren Luloff (ME)
The Stephen Pace House, a residency operated by the Maine College of Art in Stonington, has been awarded to us for a week this July, where it will serve as a home base for the Artists featured in this exhibition. Throughout the week, artists will engage in plein-air painting, gather for an artists’ reception at the gallery in Blue Hill, and take part in additional programming to be announced.
With special thanks to Tessa Greene O'Brien for support and facilitation.
ABOUT LA LOMA
In 2019, Kirk Nelson started La Loma as a gallery in his home off La Loma Road. In 2021, the gallery branched out into a bright commercial space down the street. The program of La Loma, in its new formal space, hewed to the original mandate of its homespun beginnings: show early, mid-career, and established artists in conversation. (An MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, Nelson builds relationships with artists as a fellow traveler.)
In over forty shows, La Loma has exhibited paintings, drawings, ceramics, and sculpture by artists from Los Angeles and beyond, among them Hayley Barker, Rebecca Morris, Jennifer Rochlin, Nabilah Nordin, Mark Grotjahn, Jae Ko, Jude Pauli, Alex Becerra, Jasmine Little, and Joe Sola.
