Artist-in-Residence
Victoria Adams
IN STUDIO
Thursday, March 26, 2009 through
Saturday, April 4, 2009
ON EXHIBIT
Thursday, March 26, 2009 through
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Artist-in-Residence
Victoria Adams
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.
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
Selected 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
