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Fan by Vivian Chiu | Photo credit: Laura Visioni | Design by Robin Gahan (Marble Moon Interiors)
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Fan by Vivian Chiu | Photo credit: Laura Visioni | Design by Robin Gahan (Marble Moon Interiors)
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Fan | Vivian Chiu

$12,888.00

Fan is part of a series investigating the formal possibilities of split turning—a traditional woodworking technique where blocks of wood are temporarily glued together with a thin paper strip in the seam, turned on the lathe, then separated cleanly along the joint. Vivian appropriates this slow, patient process to split and reassemble abstract compositions of organic, feminine, corporeal forms. The exterior is lacquered. The interior flat areas are left raw. What gets exposed when something shifts? That's the question.

Recently exhibited in featured designer Robin Gahan's (Marble Moon Interiors) family room at the 2026 Richmond Symphony League Designer Show House.

2023
Cherry, lacquer
28 x 7.5 x 7.5 in
Includes custom base

(Image 4: Photo Credit—Laura Visioni)

Fan is part of a series investigating the formal possibilities of split turning—a traditional woodworking technique where blocks of wood are temporarily glued together with a thin paper strip in the seam, turned on the lathe, then separated cleanly along the joint. Vivian appropriates this slow, patient process to split and reassemble abstract compositions of organic, feminine, corporeal forms. The exterior is lacquered. The interior flat areas are left raw. What gets exposed when something shifts? That's the question.

Recently exhibited in featured designer Robin Gahan's (Marble Moon Interiors) family room at the 2026 Richmond Symphony League Designer Show House.

2023
Cherry, lacquer
28 x 7.5 x 7.5 in
Includes custom base

(Image 4: Photo Credit—Laura Visioni)

Vivian Chiu | Sculpture Artist in Richmond,VA | Crone House

Vivian Chiu was born in Los Angeles and emigrated to Hong Kong at the age of three. Her interests in creating objects and the visual arts led her to attend the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA '11 Furniture Design) and Columbia University (MFA '19 Sculpture). With an aptitude for problem-solving and sensitivity toward materials, Vivian utilizes continuous deconstruction and reconstruction to create optical sculptures and explore ideas of visibility and perception.

Vivian has attended residencies such as the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Sculpture Space, Haystack Mountain School, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Museum for Art in Wood, and Penland School of Crafts. She is part of the 2022 American Craft Council Emerging Artists Cohort. She was awarded a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture, the 2023-24 VMFA Visual Arts Fellowship in Crafts, and was recently a third-place prize winner for the Virginia A. Groot Grant.

Vivian lives and works in Richmond, VA.

https://www.vivianchiustudio.com/