"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