Who is Brendan O'Connell?
Brendan is an American painter who explores the everyday through contemporary art. His work uses binary genres: traditional and contemporary, figurative and abstract, high and low art perspectives, mystical and pop. By exploring an idea through paint, O’Connell allows the concept to dictate the particular style of paintings, making his portfolio eclectic. His Walmart paintings have been collected widely and exhibited in New York, Shanghai, Toronto, and Boston, as well as reviewed in Art in America, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, The Colbert Report, Manifesto, and many other publications across the United States.
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CBS Sunday Morning - Art Inspired by Retail
The Colbert Report - Brendan O'Connell explains why he paints Jif jars and classic American blondes shopping in Walmart
NBC 11 Alive Atlanta - Atlanta native paints Walmart masterpieces
CBS Boston - Quincy Walmart service as unique artist's latest canvas
FOX CT - Connecticut painter bringing Walmart art to the masses
ABC Houston - Artist finds inspiration in the aisles of Walmart
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Time Magazine - Brand name painter
The New Yorker - Walart, a career epiphany in a supermarket
Cosmopolitan - See These Incredible Paintings of Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, and Lena Dunham
The Boston Globe - As artist finds inspiration in Walmart's aisles
Houston Chronicle - Walmart's Warhol has fans in the shopping lanes
The Atlanta Journal Constitution - Walmart artist fosters events for 300,000 children
Atlanta Magazine - Watching the Warhol of Walmart
The Manifesto - Talk shop: Brendan O'Connell
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NPR's Morning Marketplace - The art of Walmart: A painter turns his canvas on store aisles
KUHF Houston Matters - Walmart's Warhol comes to Houston
NPR's Studio 360 - Paintings of Walmart
KPFT News - Brendan O'Connell
NPR Atlanta's City Cafe - Price check, with a side of nostalgia: A visit with the Walmart Warhol
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USA Today, Inspiration Nation - Artist on aisle three, man paints Walmart masterpieces
AOL Homepage - Man spends 10 years painting Walmart
NPR's The Salt - Spirituality and sprite, aisle 1? What an artist sees in Walmart
Creative Loafing, Atlanta - Brendan O'Connell returns to this hometown Walmart
The Atlantic - The hidden beauty of a Walmart store
NWA Online - Students' Wal-art' inspires national project
Ellen's Good News - Artist finds inspiration in an unlikely place
MSN Money - Artist finds inspiration at Walmart