Meet Brendan O'Connell, a self-taught painter who has found ... Walmart shoppers trying to navigate around this oddly-placed artist. In the beginning, O'Connell was kicked out of countless Walmarts.

Yes. But a rendezvous spot with transcendence? Hardly. Yet that's exactly what artist Brendan O'Connell sees in the sprawling big-box stores. For the past decade, O'Connell has been snapping ...

Meet Brendan O’Connell, Walmart artist — or at least the mega retailer is his muse. O’Connell has taken to painting the things you can find the big-box store and the people who roam its aisles.

Brendan O’Connell is painting bananas ... wandered in by accident with his kid’s art supplies. But he’s here now, very intentionally doing what has made him rather famous—for a painter ...

Paintings by Brendan O'Connell at the Fay Gold Gallery within the Westside Cultural Arts Center, April 25-May 31. A reception with the artist, 6:30-8:30 p.m. April 25. O'Connell also will speak 2 ...

Brendan O’Connell grew up in Tucker ... He didn’t discover art, he says, until he was twenty-two. “I moved to Paris after graduating from Emory [in 1990] with the idea of writing a novel ...

They don't kick Brendan O'Connell out of Walmart stores anymore ... Things began to change after a Boston art gallery exhibited some of the paintings, and now O'Connell is internationally known ...

"Kim: Always On": For Kim, her image is her art form. She has produced infinitely variable images of herself. Here, she is standing in front of a magazine rack with myriad versions of herself ...

Painting shoppers at box stores or the products themselves — often at Walmart stores around the country — are the signature subjects of Connecticut artist Brendan O’Connell. As part of a ...

Brendan O’Connell is a painter who finds his muses in ... his work isn’t cheap — $1,000 is the very low end — but art buyers are willing to splurge in order to be able to hang an un ...

Paintings by Brendan O’Connell at the Fay Gold Gallery within the Westside Cultural Arts Center, April 25-May 31. A reception with the artist, 6:30-8:30 p.m. April 25. O’Connell also will ...