Don Voisine

Don Voisine (b. 1952, Fort Kent, Maine) is an American abstract painter living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, USA. Voisine was elected a member of American Abstract Artists in 1997 and became President of the group in 2004. His work is included in the public collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Peabody Essex Museum and the Missoula Art Museum in Missoula, MT.

Biography

Education
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Concept Center for Visual Studies, Portland, ME
Portland School of Art, Portland, ME

Solo Exhibitions
2006
Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
Abaton Garage, Jersey City, NJ

2005
Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, Maine

1998
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME

1990
Deson Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL

1987
Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985
Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY

1982
Moming Arts Center, Chicago, IL

1980
80 Papers, New York, NY

Bibliography
The Brooklyn Rail, “Art Seen - Review” by Michael Brennan, May 2006
New York Times, “Presentational Painting III” Art in Review by Grace Glueck April 7, 2006
Artnet.Magazine, "Painting Presentation" by Stephen Maine, April 7, 2006
New Arts Program/Berks Community Television, "Interview on New Arts Alive" with James F. L. Carroll, Reading, PA. February 28, 2006.
Village Voice, “Odd Artist Out, Chris Martin” by Jerry Saltz, October 12–18, 2005
NY Arts Magazine, “Living History” Dan Keane, Nov/Dec 2005
Chronogram, “Abstract Thought” by Beth E. Wilson, October 2005
New York Observer, “I See a Canvas and I Want It Painted Black” by Mario Naves, August 1, 2005
Portland Phoenix, “Fishlike Fish ‘Sublime Geometries: CMCA at Portland’ at June Fitzpatrick” by Chris Thompson, February 23, 2005
Maine Sunday Telegram, “Eye on collection, insight into collector’s eye” review by Phillip Isaacson, December 5, 2004
Interview with Matthew Deleget, MINUS SPACE, November 2003. <www.minusspace.com/log/minusspace-voisine.htm>
The Brooklyn Rail, “The Painting Center Repetition In Discourse” by Daniel Baird, October - November 2001
Maine Times, “Unusually Abstract in Wiscasset”, by Edgar Allen Beem, August 16, 2001
New York Times, “Inaugural Exhibition For Gallery In Beacon”, review by D. Dominick Lombardi, April 22, 2001
New York Times, “Punk and Bloat”, review by Phyllis Braff, December 10, 2000
Review, “Review” by Dominique Nahas, Volume 3, Number 16 May 15, 1998
Maine Times, "The Ontological Status of Art and Aroostook", by Edgar Allan Beem, September 20, 1991
Art Space, "Reconstructivist Painting", by Peter Frank, March/April, 1990
Chicago Tribune, "Voisine Paintings Add Up as Assured Works", by Alan Artner, February 9, 1990
Kunstforum, "Rekonstruktivismus-Neomoderne Abstraktion in den Verenigten Staaten" by Peter Frank, Number 105, January/February 1990
Chicago Tribune, "New York Artists Have the Abstract Edge", David McCrackin, July 8, 1988
New Art Examiner, "Review" by Garrett Holg, May 1987
Chicago Tribune, "Don Voisine's Simple Geometry is Masterful", by Alan Artner, March 20, 1987
Village Voice, "Art Picks", by Gary Indiana, March 19–25, 1986
New York Times, "City Without Walls - Objects of Comfort", by William Zimmer, April 14, 1985
Downtown Review, "Review" by Katherine Bradford, Fall 1980
Art Speak, "Review", by Palmer Poroner, September 11, 1980
Vision, "Grassroots-Concrete Roots", by Katherine Bradford, Lucy Lippard and Don Voisine, December 1978
Portland Evening Express, "Three Painters Exhibit", April 22, 1974

Catalogues
Presentational Painting III, Gabriele Evertz, John Cox and Abbey Ryan [1], 2006
Abstract Dilemmas: American Abstract Artists, Dr. Lori Verderamme, 2002
Punk & Bloat, Bill Arning, 2000
Toward The New: American Abstract Artists, Joan Webster Price, 2000
American Abstraction: 4 Currents, Peter Frank, 1985
Small Works; New Abstract Painting, Barbara Zabel and William Zimmer, 1984

External links

• American Abstract Artists
• MINUS SPACE, Interview from November 2003

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