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Don Voisine
May 10 - June 14, 2015



Don Voisine has long worked with a reductive vocabulary of hard-edged, geometric abstraction painted in oil on wood. For years he has explored the seemingly limitless compositional possibilities of overlapping geometric forms rendered in glossy and matte black paint against light-colored grounds. The central black shapes are further defined by directional brushwork which captures the light, setting one form off from another. Sometimes symmetrical, sometimes irregular, these geometries engage in shifting spatial interactions within a confined format, bordered top and bottom or left and right by uniform bands of brighter colors.
 
Two new developments in Voisine’s use of color distinguish works in this exhibition. Some works are executed almost entirely in varying tones of black, appearing nearly monochromatic. Here, Voisine’s forms emerge from a mysterious space, enlivened by a single contrasting color. In other works, black is abandoned altogether in favor of contrasting reds in the central area, or with opposing tonalities of light cream, white and gray. In addition, the grounds in some paintings are more muted and less contrastingly light, and the geometric forms do not necessarily overlap. Instead, they abut one another with a sharp diagonal edge or crease. In these light-colored works, the space reads as a distinctly sculptural or architectural environment; the illusion of a bend within the central compositional area is remarkable. In other paintings, rectilinear forms set one within another recall the architectural drawings which were the initial inspiration for Voisine’s abstract compositions. When the geometric forms are set side by side rather than overlapped, a rhythmic back and forth movement, or a sense of infinite expansion, is created. No matter the scale, Voisine’s paintings feel taut, elegant, and unswervingly sensuous in their severity.
 
  Don Voisine, Narrows
Narrows, 2015
Oil on wood panel
40 x 60 inches
Don Voisine, Sluice
Sluice, 2015
Oil on wood panel
40 x 40 inches
Don Voisine, Reset
Reset, 2015
Oil on wood panel
40 x 60 inches
  Don Voisine, Flank
Flank, 2015
Oil on wood panel
33 x 24 inches
Don Voisine, Fold
Fold, 2015
Oil on wood panel
32 x 32 inches
Don Voisine, Bluff
Bluff, 2014
Oil on wood panel
18 x 24 inches
  Don Voisine, K
K, 2014
Oil on wood panel
22 x 24 inches
Don Voisine, Staple
Staple, 2015
Oil on wood panel
24 x 24 inches
Don Voisine, Grey Line
Grey Line, 2015
Oil on wood panel
22 x 22 inches
  Don Voisine, Rota
Rota, 2015
Oil on wood panel
16 x 23 inches
Don Voisine, Ticket
Ticket, 2014
Oil on wood panel
28 x 18 inches
Don Voisine, Porter
Porter, 2015
Oil on wood panel
9 x 9 inches
  Don Voisine, Bluebelle
Bluebelle, 2015
Oil on wood panel
16 x 12 inches
Don Voisine, Vink
Vink, 2015
Oil on wood panel
14 x 18 inches
Don Voisine, Duane
Duane, 2015
Oil on wood panel
16 x 12 inches
  Don Voisine, Mercury
Mercury, 2015
Oil on wood panel
12 x 12 inches
Don Voisine, Spring Bud
Spring Bud, 2015
Oil on wood panel
18 x 14 inches
Don Voisine, Ramp
Ramp, 2015
Oil on wood panel
12 x 20 inches
  Don Voisine, installation 1
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Don Voisine, installation 2
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Don Voisine, installation 3
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  Don Voisine, installation 4
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Don Voisine, installation 5
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Don Voisine, installation 6
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  Don Voisine, installation 7
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Don Voisine, installation 8
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Don Voisine, installation 9
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  Don Voisine, installation 10
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Don Voisine, installation 11
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Don Voisine, installation 12
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