DON

VOISINE

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Born: Fort Kent, ME 1952

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY Abaton Garage, Jersey City, NJ

2008 Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME

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

2005 Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME

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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Geometric Abstraction, Mckenzie Fine Art, New York, NY 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY Shape Shifters: New York Painters, University of North Carolina – Pembroke, NC and Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Words Fail Me, H29, Brussels, Belgium Spring Selections, Ober Gallery, Kent CT The Discerning Eye of Rose Marie Frick, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME Unpainted - New Abstract Painting, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL American Abstract Artists, The Painting Center, New York, NY Peace 2008, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2007 Mark Dagley, Don Voisine, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY Material Matters, SideShow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Escape from New York, Sydney Non Objective (SNO), Sydney, Australia Group Exhibition, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME Orpheus Project: In Search of Darkness, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY 2007 Corpse of Time, Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA In a Series, ’temporary Museum of Painting (& drawing), Brooklyn, NY Continuum: In Celebration of 70 years of the American Abstract Artists, St. Peter’s College Art Gallery, Jersey City, NJ Brooklyn Abstract, Eyewash @ Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY Unwrapped II: New Gifts to the Permanent Collection, Missoula Art Museum, MT War is Over Again, SideShow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006 The Square, ’temporary Museum of Painting (& drawing), Brooklyn, NY Abstractions, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY Inaugural Exhibition, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA Presentational Painting III, Hunter College/Times Square Galleries, New York, NY 17th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME War Is Over, SideShow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2005 Optical Simulations, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY Art Makes a Difference, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME Paint it with Black, Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, NY Ideal: Selections from the American Abstract Artists, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY Sublime Geometries, CMCA in Portland at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME

2004 Merry/Peace, SideShow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Naked, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME Sublime Geometries, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME Pierogi a Go-Go, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY Group Exhibition, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME Eccentric Spaces: The Fiction of Place, N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

2003 Merry/Peace, SideShow, Brooklyn, NY Incredible Lightness of Being, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2002 Breathing Room, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Abstract Dilemmas: American Abstract Artists, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA Brooklyn Rail Presents: Made In Brooklyn, Whyte Studios, Brooklyn, NY round/rounded, S. Cono, Brooklyn, NY

2001 Sharon Brant, Robert Sagerman, Don Voisine, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Merry/Peace, SideShow, Brooklyn, NY Tondo Rondo, C. W. White Gallery, Portland, ME Repetition in Discourse, The Painting Center, New York, NY Group Exhibition, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME Abstraction: 22 Visions, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME Inaugural Invitational Exhibition, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY BibliLOtech, Kerry Inman Gallery, Houston, TX In House, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2000 The Toy Show, 41/2 Projects, Brooklyn, NY Punk & Bloat, Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY Significant Pursuits: Paint and Geometry, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY Toward The New: American Abstract Artists, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY Summer Indulgence, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Separated At Birth: Selections from the Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA An Homage to Albert Pinkham Ryder, The State of Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1999 Inaugural Salon - Winter 1999, Splendid, Brooklyn, NY The Passion/Passions of Art, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY Morir Sonando, 76 Varick, New York, NY Big Little Drawing Show, N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

1998 After Dark, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

1996 Defining Spaces, Sigma Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Reconstructivism, Space 504, New York, NY Works on Paper, S. Cono, Brooklyn, NY

1994 Drop Dead Painting, 103 Reade Street, NY

1992 Salon of the Mating Spiders, Herron Test Site, Brooklyn, NY

1991 Aroostook: Art in Isolation, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

1990 Downtown/Downeast, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME Memory and Evidence, Painting Space 122, New York, NY January 1990, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, NY

1989 Elements of Style: A History of the Dividing Line, Deson Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL Poetry and Process; 9 Abstract Artists, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY and Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Acts Gallery, Fort Kent, ME

1988 Don Voisine, Katherine Bradford, Art Gallery, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY Abstraction, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL

1986 Eight Artists, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY New Visions in Contemporary Art: The RSM Company Collection, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH Paintings and Objects, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

1985 American Abstraction: 4 Currents, Louis Meisel Gallery, New York, NY New Artists/New Work, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL Objects of Comfort, City without Walls, Newark, NJ

1984 Small Works: New Abstract Painting, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

1982 Works on Paper, 80 Papers, New York, NY

1981 Annual Small Works Exhibit, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY Works on Paper, 80 Papers, New York, NY

1979 Inaugural Exhibition, Black Brook Gallery, Lake Placid, NY

1976 Metro Show, Metro Gallery, Rochester, NY J. N. Niepce Memorial Exhibit, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA

1975 Rochester-Finger Lakes, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

1974 Three Painters, Canal National Bank, Portland, ME Haystack, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

1973 Concept-Exhibition of Paintings, Concept, Portland, ME Skowhegan Award Competition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007 Goodrich, John. "Mark Dagley & Don Voisine," The New York Sun, January 25 Kalm, James. “Brooklyn Dispatches,” The Brooklyn Rail, April

2006 Brennan, Michael. "Art Seen," The Brooklyn Rail, May Glueck, Grace. "Presentational Painting III," The New York Times, April 7 Maine, Stephen. "Painting Presentation," Artnet.com, April 7 Evertz, Gabriele; Cox, John; and Ryan, Abbey. Catalogue for Presentational Painting III, Times Square Galleries, Hunter College, New York Carroll, James. F. L. "Interview on New Arts Alive," New Arts Program/Berks Community Television, February 28 Long, Jim. “R-Value,” Brochure for exhibition at Abaton Garage, Jersey City, NJ

2005 Keane, Dan. "Living History," NY Arts Magazine, November/December Saltz, Jerry. "Odd Artist Out, Chris Martin," The Village Voice, October 12 Wilson, Beth E. "Abstract Thought," Chronogram, October Naves, Mario. "I See a Canvas and I Want It Painted Black," New York Observer, August 1 Thompson, Chris. "Fishlike Fish ’Sublime Geometries: CMCA at Portland’ at June Fitzpatrick, Portland Phoenix, February 23

2004 Isaacson, Phillip. "Eye on Collection, Insight into Collector’s Eye," Maine Sunday Telegram, December 4

2002 Verderamme, Dr. Lori. Catalogue for Abstract Dilemmas: American Abstract Artists, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

2001 Baird, Daniel. "The Painting Center Repetition in Discourse," The Brooklyn Rail, October/November Beem, Edgar Allen. "Unusually Abstract in Wiscasset," Maine Times, August 16 Lombardi, D. Dominick. "Inaugural Exhibition for Gallery in Beacon," The New York Times, April 22 Frost, Adrian. "Collaborative Concepts," Chronogram, March

2000 Braff, Phyllis. "Punk & Bloat," The New York Times, December 10 Arning, Bill. Catalogue for Punk & Bloat, Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY Price, Joan Webster. Catalogue for Toward the New: American Abstract Artists, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY

1998 Nahas, Dominique. "Don Voisine at Margaret Thatcher," Review, May 15

1991 Beem, Edgar Allen. "The Ontological Status of Art and Aroostook, Maine Times, September 20

1990 Frank, Peter. "Reconstructivist Painting," Art Space, March/April Artner, Alan. "Voisine Paintings Add Up as Assured Works," Chicago Tribune, February 9 Frank, Peter. "Rekonstruktivismus-Neomoderne Abstraktion in den Verenigten Staaten," Kunstforum, January/February

1988 McCrackin, David. "New York Artists Have the Abstract Edge," Chicago Tribune, July 8

1987 Holg, Garrett. "Don Voisine," New Art Examiner, May Artner, Alan. "Don Voisine’s Simple Geometry is Masterful," Chicago Tribune, March 20

1986 Indiana, Gary. "Art Picks," The Village Voice, March 19

1985 Frank, Peter. Catalogue for American Abstraction: 4 Currents, Louis Meisel Gallery, New York, NY Zimmer, William. "City Without Walls - Objects of Comfort," The New York Times, April 14

1984 Zabel, Barbara and Zimmer, William. Catalogue for Small Works: New Abstract Painting, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

1980 Bradford, Katherine. "Don Voisine," Downtown Review, Fall Poroner, Palmer. "Don Voisine," Art Speak, September 11

1978 Bradford, Katherine; Lippard, Lucy; and Voisine, Don. "Grassroots-Concrete Roots," Vision, December

1974 "Three Painters Exhibit," Portland Evening Express, April 22

DON VOISINE 194 Powers Street Brooklyn, New York 718 387-5348

Dvobhe88@aol.com

EDUCATION

1976 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 1974 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine 1973 - 74 Concept Center for Visual Studies, Portland, Maine 1970 – 73 Portland School of Art, Portland, Maine

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA

ASSOCIATIONS

American Abstract Artists Member, 1997 President, 2004-present

AWARDS

2006 Artist’s Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts

2004 Edward Albee Fellowship

2000 Honorary BFA, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

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