Tour Jete II, 90 x 45, acrylic on linen, 2019

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"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 in design, particularly textiles with abstract color blocks, circles, and lines suggesting mathematical symbols.

She further engages us with illusory techniques, making acrylic look 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

Christine Vaillancourt received the Best in Show Award at Newport Art Museum, RI, in 2003, resulting in a one-person exhibition in 2004 titled "Techno-Retro." In 2009, her painting was awarded Juror's Choice in Painting at the juried exhibition at the Provincetown Art Museum. In 2019 Christine had a one-person show at the Mayor's Gallery, Boston City Hall.

Vaillancourt has exhibited in the United States and Canada.

Among Vaillancourt's corporate clients are Bank of Montreal, Biogen IDEC in Waltham and Cambridge, Massachusetts; ITT, MCI, SAP America; Nordstrom in Massachusetts, California, Texas, and Florida; Bloomingdales in Massachusetts, Georgia, and New York; Westin Hotel, Harvard Vanguard, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Essex Investments, Intercontinental Residences Boston, Dana-Farber, and Fidelity in Boston; Hale and Dorr in New York and Boston; Neiman Marcus in Georgia and Massachusetts; CSC Index in New York and Chicago; ONEX and MAC Make-up in Toronto; Tokyo Millennium in Bermuda. Her work is in private collections in the United States and abroad.

Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, represents Christine Vaillancourt; Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco; Dean Day Gallery, Houston; and Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston.