Brendan O’Connell’s ‘Wal-art’: Finding Beauty in the ‘Everyday’

March 29th, 2013

Brendan O’Connell is a contemporary artist who has achieved commercial and critical success painting scenes inside Walmart stores.

The former Tucker, Georgia resident chose painting as his life’s devotion during several years spent in Europe following his graduation from Emory University.A conversation with Brendan O'Connell

Why he has chosen Walmart as his muse, is something he shared with WABE’s Steve Goss.

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