I'll second that, really like most of these. Especially the sound of music one and the Wu-Tang reference with cash rules everything around me ("C.R.E.A.M.")

These are great, thanks for posting poorgirl.

Anymore details Poorgirl? Rene?

rene gagnon, think I read somewhere the US, found it link here:

www.renegagnonfineart.com/

that's a nice RG piece. What size is it?
I think i read somewhere he has a show coming up soon?
Rene is a member on here so maybe he'll comment!

Now where have I seen that last image before?


Oh yes, Grafter.

Very nice.

The top one reminds me of

www.whitewallssf.com/full_images/gal_artist_78_2972_Gas_Mask.jpg

Gagnon is starting to grow on my love the Always in Season stuff girls with guns what else do I have to say

It's not like it's an unusual image though mate...

i'm a fan of rene's work, i actually found this forum because i did a search for him on google. today i saw this post on galerie magna www.magda-gallery.com/vang/index.php?z=38&PHPSESSID=c66f85fbdf9890f848ce22bba6950bc5 artist jonone. reminds me of rene's early work dating back to early 2000's. rene's progression is fascinating to me.

Rene Gagnon did them years before MBW

I'm pretty sure Rene. MBW is pretty damn derivative. I don't want to bash on MBW, because he puts on a pretty good show and is a genuinely nice guy - but he over relies on artistic assistants and so much of his work looks a bit "borrowed."

There were scant few pieces in his LA show which I didn't come across as a rendition of someone else.

Frankly, to understand MBW, you have to realize he was a documentary filmmaker who turned his camera on urban art, and then after being a groupy of sorts, he decided he was an urban artist. That's doesn't mean he can't either develop into a true urban artist (and to his credit, he does actively bomb a great deal in LA) but soooo much of his work comes across as emulating what he's seen from other artists he covered as a filmmaker.

I personally still don't know what to make of MBW. I think he's best summed up by saying MBW has simultaneously done a lot to spread urban art, but has done little to nothing to add to its progression.

I'd really would like to hear Rene's take. I used to see him on this board.

I always liked Rene's work and long thought he doesn't get enough credit. I like that his canvases have the frenetic feel free hand street pieces, but do so through a combination of stencil and abstraction.

Though some of his work gets a bit silly and I think he's a bit all over the place sometimes, I still think aesthetically, he's under appreciated and have thought about purchasing an original from him. His stuff really reminds me of a cross between Goldie and Ben Frost - with a little extra tinge of abstract. But on a purely visceral level, much of his stuff is huge and colourful and therefore eye popping in a house.

Added some pics of his recent work...




My two cents.

I don't get the big hullabaloo.
pretty much everything I see these days has been robbed from someone else.

shouldn't we be prosecuting about 1000 other artists with such zeal as this as well if it's such a horrific crime?

Maybe he's saying something?