PAINTINGS

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Review of Christine'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.

She further engages us with illusory techniques, making acrylic look like encaustic, 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.

– Nancy Whipple Grinnell, Curator of the Newport Art Museum