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Yechel Gagnon - Buttress
April 1, 2005

“Like the Chinese landscape painters moved by the ideal, Gagnon’s art recaptures the freshness, the vitality or chi that runs through all things and imparts this energy to the world. At once architectural and restrained, poetic and mysterious, this art is satisfying, since it is full: full of nuances, full of memory, full of space, both open and contained. It is also free: free of politics, free of irony, void of cliché. Her employment of monochrome or very restrained hints of colour bears comparison to medieval Chinese aesthetics where poetry, calligraphy and painting were intended to inspire contemplation”.

Gagnon, Yechel, with Alexandria Pierce, Bernard Chassé, and Stéphane Aquin. Yechel Gagnon: Palimpsest. Hamilton, Canada: McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, 2004. - 12/13 Print.