SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.- The exhibition Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art opens today at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, on view until May 16, 2004.  Featuring over fifty paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, drawings, and video works by thirty-three contemporary artists, Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art (B2V) surveys the broad range of new art being made on the west coasts of Northern Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Linked geographically, economically, and culturally, the region stretching from Tijuana, Baja California to Vancouver, British Columbia, is a dynamic and diverse center of artistic production. Using the theme of cultural landscapes—representations of life as it is lived along the Pacific rim—the exhibition highlights some of the most important figures and directions defining contemporary art in the region.  From the emerging scene in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, to the established art centers in California, Oregon, and Washington’s coastal cities, to the advanced conceptual school in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, B2V identifies the diverse threads that unite and distinguish life and artistic expression along a rich, international cultural corridor. The exhibition’s curators are: Ralph Rugoff (CCA), Matthew Higgs (CCA), Toby Kamps (MCASD), Lisa Corrin (SAM), Daina Augaitis (Vancouver).