For the past twenty years Brendan O’Connell has been making art of the everyday. He spent over a decade doing paintings about Walmart and brands capturing everyday aesthetics. He co-created one of the largest single-day art events during which over 400,000 school children made thematic art on the same day. O’Connell has been profiled in the New Yorker, Sunday Morning CBS, Time Magazine and was a guest of Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report. Dubbed the “Warhol of Walmart,” he expressed the ways in which Walmart was emblematic of a common experience in the 90s and 00s. He is a protean talent, making figurative and abstract paintings, and NFTs on Web 3.0. To learn more about Brendan, read his interview with Alec Baldwin.
