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Kazaan Viveiros: Passages
January 31 – March 22, 2003
Artist’s Reception free and open to the public: Friday, January 31, 6 - 8 PM.
Artist’s Talk: Saturday, February 1, 6 to 7:30pm
Open Tuesday - Saturday, 11am – 5pm and by appointment.
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Special installation by Bay Area conceptual artist David Ireland
>> preview the art of Kazaan Viveiros
Julie Baker is pleased to announce "Passages" an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Kazaan Viveiros. Viveiros' narrative paintings on wood panel combine the hand of a trained draftsman with the mind of an intellectual storyteller. Her imagery stems from personal and cultural references ranging from folk art and architectural details to ancient relics and religious text. In her collage-like compositions images such as the ocean and pastoral landscapes mix with rich, monochromatic color panels, numbers, circles, stencils and the occasional drip of paint. As she paints, images, thoughts, and ideas are revised, edited out, or painted over. New images arise and develop, while others are sanded away. The remnants of what lies underneath are semi-visible, a documentation of her process. The paintings become human documents or records of the mind’s journey.
In "Passages", Viveiros is focusing on a sense of place. She does not aim to portray a specific place or location but tries to find something more timeless, a summation of "place" - a mythic dimension that is less specific and more universal. Recently she has been drawn to images of the sky and the ocean. The sea is ever changing, yet ever present. It is always moving, changing tide/shape, yet it also has permanence and carries with it a sense of the infinite, a thread reaching back to the beginnings of the earth. The landscape elements, also seen throughout her recent work, relate to how "place" fits in the greater context of our mental landscape and how journey’s and places combine to make up a collective history of experience.
As an artist, Viveiros is constantly observing, absorbing and recording while working and re-working the surface until she arrives at a place that somehow reveals itself as a destination or a place of suspension— like a stopping point on the journey. Viveiros’ work strikes a balance between impulse and restraint, precise draftsmanship and gestural movement.
Kazaan Viveiros recently moved from San Francisco, CA to Charlottesville, VA. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to Julie Baker Fine Art, Viveiros has shown with the Traywick Gallery in Berkeley, CA, Kathryn Markel in New York, NY and venues throughout San Francisco.
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm and by appointment.
For images for reproduction please visit the website or contact the gallery. 530-273-0910. www.juliebakerfineart.com
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