Quebec artist François Faucher has waited patiently to bring his Vibrationism to the New York art scene, as he is doing with a solo of recent work at Abney Gallery [...] It is true that when looks at these canvases they seem to vibrate, even sometimes strongly, especially on first impression. Faucher presents a figurative image, but one never thinks of them as figure or abstraction. They are images out of his mind. He does not take images from life and then abstract or edit out the nonessentials. He begins with a simple image that represents a spirit or mood and then expresses it directly out of his feeling. These images are the emotional version of reality. What François Faucher sees in life is his own boundless energy. He supercharges his figures or still lifes so that they appear transfigured. Like many other artists who create an art entirely distinct, Faucher has made his inventions in technique [...]

Faucher [...] refers to his style as vibrationism, an the name is appropriate indeed: He creates the actual sense of a vibration through the chromatic vibrancy of his colors, especially when he adds a quality of incandescence by illuminating his scenes with candlelight [...] Figure and objects are strongly stylized in Faucher's bluntly simplified manner and stray particles of pigment floating in the air, like confetti, lend the picture a sense of decomposition, as though matter is slightly fragmented by memory.