John Yau reviews Don Voisine: X/V at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine, on view through October 28, 2016.

Yau writes: “Voisine’s pieces demand attention; you need to study them up close and from a distance to fully appreciate the illusions the artist creates by way of a handful of shapes and a limited but resonant set of colors. Several paintings, for example, feature subtle tilts in the black shapes that conjure doorways or windows. Others play on surface shifts such as dividing a shape into matte and glossy sections or by way of subtle overlays.”