Victoria Adams
Artist Residency Season:
2008-09
Artist Name:
Victoria Adams
Profile:
Victoria Adams is a contemporary landscape painter who lives and works on Vashon Island, a small, ferry-access-only island just outside Seattle, Washington. She finds inspiration for her primary subject matter—the sky, the land, and deep atmospheric space—in the weather and views of the Pacific Northwest, yet her imagery transcends regionality. Her work combines her memories of places and paintings that suggest timeless views of the landscape.
The artist was born in Columbus, OH in 1950 and received a BA in English Literature from Ohio State University. In her twenties, she moved to the Pacific Northwest, initiated her training in the visual arts and received a BFA in Painting from the University of Washington, studying under the renowned painter Jacob Lawrence.
Adams’ work has been exhibited widely at galleries in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Montreal, Ketchum, ID, and Portland, OR. Her work is included in the permanent collections at the Tacoma Art Museum in WA; the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA; and in numerous private and corporate collections. Her paintings will be the subject of a mid-career retrospective as part of the Northwest Perspective Series at the Tacoma Art Museum in 2010.
Works:
Solo Exhibitions
- 2010
- Solo Retrospective, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, (scheduled)
- 2009
- Victoria Adams, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA (scheduled)
- 2008
- Updraft(catalog), Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Updraft, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
- Updraft, Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2006
- Refugia, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Weather Shift: Recent Landscapes, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
- 2005
- Natural Order: Recent Landscapes Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- The Still Point: Recent Landscapes Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 2004
- Depths and Horizons: Recent Paintings, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
- 2003
- Earth and Air: Recent Paintings, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 2002
- Recent Landscapes, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
- 2001
- New Paintings, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Terrains, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 2000
- Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 1999
- Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY
- Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 1998
- Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA
- Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 1997
- Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 1996
- Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 1995
- Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 1994
- Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 1992
- Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 1990
- Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Sheila Nussbaum Gallery, Millburn, NJ
Group Exhibitions
- 2008
- Chicago Art Fair, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Seeds of Compassion Friesen Fine Art, Seattle, WA
- Art Palm Beach, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
- 2007
- Landscape, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
- US Artists, Somerville/Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
- Art Toronto, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
- The 8th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- 2006
- ArtToronto, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
- Art 2006, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
- 8th Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA
- Landscapes Real & Imagined, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham MI
- 2005
- North by Northwest, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
- 8 Artists from the Northwest, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
- 2004
- A Sense of Place, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- Second Nature, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
- Chicago Art Fair, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- The Grand View: From Bierstadt to Brophy, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
- Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory (catalog), Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, traveling to: Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT and Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
- Roberta Lieberman: A Sharp Eye: An Art Dealer's 40 Year Journey, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
- There, There: Landscape Now, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2003
- A Sofa Underneath a Painting…, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
- Building Tradition: Gifts in Honor of the Northwest Art Collection (catalog), Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- 2002
- ANA 31, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
- Chicago Art Fair, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2001
- Northwest Views: Selections from the Safeco Collection, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
- Chicago Art Fair, Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Gallery Artists, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2000
- Landscape Dialogue: The Henry Responds to Viewers, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- San Francisco International Art Exhibition, Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art and Elizabeth Leach Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- The American Landscape, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
- Reinventing Landscape, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 1999
- San Francisco International Art Exhibition, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Summer ‘99, Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY
- Sense of Place, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- From Here to the Horizon: Artists of the Rural Landscape, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
- 1998
- Movements of Grace: Spirit in the American Landscape, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
- San Francisco International Art Exhibition, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 1997
- True Art: Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- Art Santa Fe International Artfair, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
- Seattle Artfair, Gail Severn Gallery and Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 1996
- Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibit, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- Open Skies, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
- Chicago Artfair, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1995
- Seattle Artfair, Gail Severn Gallery and Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Ledbetter/Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
- The Land: Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- Three Landscape Painters: Victoria Adams, James Lavadour, David Kroll, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Seattle Artfair, Gail Severn Gallery and Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Triton Contemporary Artfair, Gail Severn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1994
- New Landscapes: West Coast, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- Sense of Place, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 1993
- New Landscape, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 1991
- American Art in Embassies Program, Lima, Peru