Don Voisine - March 2022
Don Voisine, in Fort Kent, Me, attended the Portland School of Art and Concept, School for Visual Studies in Portland, ME. He received an honorary BFA from the Maine College of Art in 2000. Exhibiting regularly in the U. S. and Europe, Voisine was the subject of a 15 year survey of his paintings at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME) in the fall of 2016. Since 1997 Voisine has been a member of American Abstract Artists, an artist-run organization founded in 1936, and served as the President of the AAA from 2004 to 2012. In 2010 he was elected to the National Academy. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Art News, The New York Times, Village Voice, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. Collections include: Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Special Collection of the Library, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Academy Museum, New York, NY; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME. Voisine’s work is represented by McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY (US), Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO (US), dr. julius I ap, Berlin (DE), Floss und Schultz, Köln, (DE). He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
The image of the painting below is "Passage" 2021, 38 x 48 in., oil & acrylic on wood panel.