Brendan O’Connell is widely known as the “Warhol ofWalmart” His quirky Impressionistic pop art and its unique view into our modernconsumer product Eden reveals our introspective personal roles in the supplychain world within which we are all connected. ..and it has struck achord with millions of people around the world.
Brendan O’Connell is widely known as the “Warhol of Walmart” His quirky Impressionistic pop art and its unique view into our modern consumer product drive reveals our introspective personal roles in the supply chain world within which we are all connected. ..and it has struck a chord with millions of people around the world.
We have a rare opportunity to showcase America’s newest pop art sensation in Las Vegas at the Signature Galleries art gallery at The Venetian May 12 -13.
Brendan has garnished a rare & highly coveted amount of media exposure to coast to coast American art lovers with his unusual and almost strangely controversial view of our everyday world transformed into colorful beauty & thoughful perspective.
O’Connell has been profiled in the New Yorker, Sunday Morning CBS, and was a guest of Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report.
Brendan has sold originals in the six figure range and has been embraced by many celebrities as an artist and a close friend. His artisticand personal halo now includes such cultural influencers as Alec Baldwin, Nile Rodgers and Snoop Dog. He has painted Alec’s wife, Snoop Dog & Snoop's son Champ Medici.
His work is in the permanent collection of the GA Museum and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta as well as a number of prestigious and corporate public collections including Emory University, Walmart, HEB, and Tyson Foods.
Brendan co-created one of the largest ever single-day art events during which over 400,000 school children made thematic art on the same day.
Dubbed by the media as the “Warhol of Walmart,” his art expresses the ways in which Walmart was emblematic of a common experience in the 90s and 00s.
Brendan O’Connell has been making art of the everyday for the past 15 years. The intention of the “brand” series has been to use the retail environment, one of the most overlooked places, as a source of inspiration.
Brendan O’Connell paintings are a blend of rich colors and textures that bring life and whimsy to ordinary scenes. His unique talent for capturing the essence of everyday moments has garnered him widespread recognition, including features in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, CBS Sunday Morning and Time Magazine.
Brendan’s bold brushstrokes and vibrant palette are reminiscent of the post-impressionists and his subject matter is the busy Walmart shopping aisle, much as those earlier artists painted the busy shopping boulevards of Paris. Beloved brands, colorful produce and the procession of people perusing the shelves, all woven together on the canvas, make Brendan’s paintings an entertaining slice of current American life! We invite you to transform your space with the internationally emerging art form of Brendan O’Connell, the of described ‘Warhol of Walmart’.
Signature Galleries is offering a carefully curated selection of Brendan’s artwork in both original paintings and limited-edition prints, including some of his most sought-after images. Don’t miss the opportunity to bring the captivating world of Brendan O’Connell into your home or office. We look forward to seeing at his upcoming exhibition.
Like Norman Rockwell, Seuss personally created every rough sketch, preliminary drawing, final line drawing and finished work for each page of every project he illustrated. Despite the technical and budgetary limitations of color printing during the early and mid-twentieth century, Dr. Seuss the artist was meticulous about color selection. He created specially numbered color charts and elaborate color call-outs to precisely accomplish his vision for each book. Saturated reds and blues, for example, were carefully chosen for The Cat in the Hat to attract and maintain the visual attention of a six-year-old audience. By the time Seuss’s book career took off, sharp draftsman skills were evident in drawings. His ability to move a storyline ahead via illustrations filled with tension, movement and color became a hallmark component of his work, and the surreal images that unfolded over six decades became the catalyst for a humorous and inspired learning experience.
Artist Leo Rijn, the inaugural sculptor for the Dr. Seuss Tribute Collection I, was selected to launch this project due to his prized work with some of today’s top talent in the world of film, entertainment and the visual arts (including Tim Burton, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg). Rijn has been identified as one of today’s brightest sculpting talents because of his ability to breathe life into the written word and successfully transform two-dimensional ideas into three-dimensional works of art. Universal Studios commissioned Leo to develop and oversee the creation of numerous maquette scale models for the Monumental Dr. Seuss Sculptures at Seuss Landing in Orlando, Florida. Leo was instrumental in the art direction for many of the sculpted characters and buildings now on display at this permanent Seuss attraction. His strikingly accurate Seuss works embody a masterful and intuitive Seussian sensibility, establishing him as a leading talent in interpretive sculpting.
Seuss embarked on an ingenious project in the early 1930s as he evolved from two-dimensional artworks to three-dimensional sculptures. What was most unusual for these mixed-media sculptures was the use of real animal parts including beaks, antlers and horns from deceased Forest Park Zoo animals where Seuss’s father was superintendent. Unorthodox Collection of Taxidermy was born in a cramped New York apartment and included a menagerie of inventive creatures with names like the “Two Horned Drouberhannis,” “Andulovian Grackler,” and “Semi-Normal Green-Lidded Fawn.” Shortly after Seuss created this unique collection of artworks, Look Magazine dubbed Seuss “The World’s Most Eminent Authority on Unheard-Of Animals.” To this day, Seuss’s Unorthodox Collection of Taxidermy remains as some of the finest examples of his inventive and multi-dimensional creativity.
Illustrator by day, surrealist by night, Seuss created a body of irrepressible work that redefines this American icon as an iconographic American artist. Yet, the Secret Art often shows a side of the artist that most readers, familiar with him through his classic children’s books, have never seen. This collection, created over a period of more than 60 years, encompasses the entirety of Seuss’s multi-dimensional talent. The artistic golden thread highlighted throughout this collection is apparent in each wildly imaginative and surreal Secret Art image. The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss is an inimitable collection of artworks created at night for his own personal enjoyment. These works were rarely, if ever, exhibited during his lifetime and provide a deeper glimpse into the art and life of this celebrated American Icon.
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