ENCINITAS, CA — (January 14, 2009) — Lux Art Institute, San Diego’s Grand Orchid-award winning interactive art destination, will welcome Victoria Adams as the next resident artist of ‘09.

Adams is a landscape painter who lives and works on Vashon Island off the coast of Seattle, Washington. Her residence at Lux will be from March 26-April 4, during which she will create a 50 x 50 inch oil painting based on one of Southern California’s last remaining wetlands, the San Elijo Lagoon. She will observe the lagoon and its unique environment to inform the piece she will create on-site.

Visitors can “see art happen” while Adams is in the Lux studio and view her completed work through May 20, 2009.

While Adams finds inspiration for her primary subject matter in the panoramas of sky, land, water, clouds, and weather in the Pacific Northwest, her imagery transcends region. Her work is inspired by a combination of fragments of photographed scenes, daydreams, and memories of paintings and places—all filtered through the influence of the historical landscape tradition.

Adams’ work has been widely exhibited at galleries nationally and is included in the permanent collections at the Tacoma Art Museum in WA, the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, WA, and in numerous private and corporate collections. Her paintings will be the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Tacoma Art Museum in 2010.

“We are thrilled to welcome Vicki to Lux this spring,” says Director Reesey Shaw. “Her luminous paintings refer to landscapes that, tragically, no longer remain, but they reaffirm our need to connect to nature. Lux’s location on a wildlife preserve overlooking the San Elijo Lagoon will inform Vicki’s work here.”

Adams was born in Columbus, OH 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 renowned painter Jacob Lawrence.

Lux hours are Thursday and Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; cost is $10 for two visits.

For more information visit www.luxartinstitute.org or call 760.436.6611.