Rene
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"Looking in the mirror" 42 x 91 cm |
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Rene Gagnon is wrestling with powerful sublimations. But which of two powers is he sublimating? Is it the loopy, jazzy calligraphy, still fresh, of his graffiti-artist boyhood or is it the abstract expressionism of Rene the art student? The energy of his wall-sized canvasses points to a "home boy" living on the edge of both worlds." James Foritano for Artscope Magazine
I was born in 1971 and raised in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts, a mill town rich in culture located about 45 minutes south of Boston. Myself and a few fellow artists' (SEEK & ONE) were some of the first artists from the area to be inspired by graffiti artists, and desired to follow in their footsteps. I started tagging in 1985, which led to painting larger production pieces in 1986. I was considered to be the most widely recognized graffiti artist / tagger in the area, under the alias, SNO. I believed I gained this recognition because I always had a thirst for taking aspects of my life to the Nth degree and it came through in my work.
