Don Voisine
Architecture – a language of space – delineates boundaries, exposes points of access, exit or entry, and enables the user to interact with the structure of a defined space. This simple vernacular of architecture informs my paintings. Working with symmetry and a standardized format to reduce variables, I establish borders on all planes. Color activates an apparent void, a reflective surface opens a window into the painting, both mirroring and obscuring the view. Such devices restrict and ultimately reveal the interior spaces, establishing a fluid subjectivity between the viewer and the work.
ARTIST STATEMENT
BIOGRAPHY
Don Voisine, born 1952 in Fort Kent, ME, attended the Portland School of Art, and Concept School for Visual Studies in Maine. He received an honorary BFA from the Maine College of Art in 2000 and an honorary PhD from the University of Maine at Fort Kent in 2023. In 2016 Voisine’s work was the subject of a 15 year survey at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME) and in May 2025 will have a solo exhibition with McKenzie Fine Art, NYC. In the past 2 years his work has been featured in group exhibitions in Berlin, Brooklyn, Cologne, Denver, Hudson, Lyon, Monaco, and Washington, DC. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Art News, The New York Times, Portland Press Herald, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. Collections include: Portland Museum of Art, ME; Colby Museum, Waterville, ME; Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Special Collection of the Library, MOMA, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Print Department, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; National Academy Museum, NY.
Voisine is represented by McKenzie Fine Art, New York; Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, Floss & Schultz, Cologne (DE), and dr. julius I ap, Berlin (DE).
Reflect, 2024. Oil on canvas over board, 18” x 18”
Reverb, 2024. Oil on linen over board, 20” x 20”
Veer, 2008. Oil on wood panel, 32” x 60”