Kazaan Viveiros
Artist Kazaan Viveiros currently lives and works in Lambertville, NJ. She earned a BA with distinction from the University of Virginia in Studio Art and Religious Studies, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Viveiros has since exhibited work in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe, including solo shows in New York, San Francisco, Berkeley, Scottsdale, AZ, Richmond, VA, Savannah, GA, and Rome.
Her paintings have been collected by a wide array of corporations, including eBay, Marriott International, and Capital One Bank, as well as by notable individuals such as author Danielle Steel. The Summit Health Cancer Center in NJ has many of her works in their collection. Additionally, five of Viveiros’s paintings were purchased by the Art in Embassies Program and are permanently installed in the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
In 2022, Viveiros was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She was also a 2011 Bethesda Painting Awards semi-finalist, was twice chosen as a visiting artist at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA, and was twice an artist-in-residence at Weir Farm in Wilton, CT. In 2015, Viveiros became a Fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
In 2022, she joined with three other artists in the Delaware River Valley to form the artist collective Steamroller Group.
Artist Statement
Using the language of geometry within a narrow framework, this work explores concepts of mechanics, natural phenomena, ecology, and natural and designed systems. The forms within reference a varied list of sources, such as the branching of trees and roots, the grafting of plants, the rise and fall of the tides, and the concept of infinity and perpetual motion. The compositions feature crossing pathways, complementary forces of yin and yang, and interconnected paths flowing through undefined space. Each composition remains esoteric, firmly planted in abstraction. The external world is filtered through a personal lens. Representative works reveal transcendent qualities of creativity, the ebb and flow of interconnected forces, and the mechanisms of the natural world.
