Your Creative Push

Brendan O'Connell paints everyday America at this moment of transition. Dubbed by the media as the Walmart Warhol, he paints the everyday through retail, focusing on interior architecture, people, and brands.  Brendan has been profiled in the New Yorker and on Sunday morning CBS, a guest on the Colbert Report, and featured in Time magazine. His work is in the permanent collection of the High Museum in Atlanta and the Ga Museum in Athens. He has recently begun another series which captures America’s transition through its people and their private spaces. He is using Airbnb and couchsurfing the country, interviewing the people he stays with and painting their portrait to accompany the dialogue. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/132 In this episode, Brendan discusses: -His new project in which he stays with various people from airbnb. -How he got started with his paintings of Walmart and the people there. -His goal to make something artistic out of the least artistic place in the world. -The stigma tha