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Christine Vaillancourt PAINTER |
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 ARTIST OVERVIEW: Christine Vaillancourt received a BA from the UNC at Chapel Hill and MA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited widely in the US as well as in Toronto, Canada and Taipei, Taiwan. Christine had a one-person show at the Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston in 1999; at the Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco in June 2002; at the Newport Art Museum, RI and at the Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto in 2004. Most recently, Christine had an exhibition at the Three Columns Gallery at Harvard University and the Boston Convention Center. Her paintings have been in shows at the Fuller Museum in Massachusetts, Brattleboro Museum and Wood Gallery and Art Center, both in Vermont, the Griswold Museum in Connecticut and Bristol Art Museum in RI. Christine was featured for the third time in the juried New American Painting Magazine in 2000. Among her corporate clients are ITT, MCI, SAP America, Bloomingdales in Massachusetts, Nordstrom in Massachusetts, California, Texas, and Florida, Essex Investments, Intercontinental Boston, Dana-Farber, and Fidelity in Boston, Hale and Dorr in New York City and Wilmer Hale in Boston, CSC Index in New York and Chicago, ONEX and MAC in Toronto. Christine is represented by Nikola Rukaj Gallery in Toronto, Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco, Karen Lynne Gallery in Beverly Hills, and Trinity Gallery in Atlanta.  REVIEW OF ARTIST'S WORK: "Vaillancourt’s paintings reverberate through time. Geometric abstractions, rooted in the early twentieth century work of the Constructivists, Concrete artists and Mondrian, Vaillancourt carries us forward to the1950s, the decade of her childhood. Post-war enthusiasm for engineering and machine production manifested itself in design, in particular, textiles filled with abstract color blocks, circles and lines suggesting mathematical symbols. Fast forward fifty years to the present, in which Vaillancourt ‘s imagery connects us with the high tech world: digital info, bits and bytes, molecules, genes, quarks, the building blocks of matter providing us with glimpses of our attempts to understand the possibilities of nanotechnology. She further engages us with illusory techniques, making acrylic look like encaustic, fooling the eye with depth perception, and fooling the eye with depth perception, and creating playful yet provocative motifs. Calculated and precise multi-colored shapes—circles, ovals, squares, rectangles and dots—levitate in space in Vaillancourt’s paintings. She achieves this effect by layering her forms beneath heavily applied translucent acrylic medium. Vaillancourt invites the viewer to enter her world of contained but free moving objects. She writes, “My work is a study of geometry, color, line, space, movement, and the natural, historical human connection of elemental geometry as metaphor.” – Nancy Whipple Grinnell, Curator of the Newport Art Museum HOME • NEW & AVAILABLE WORK • SOLD WORK • PRINTS |
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