Brendan is an American painter who explores the everyday through contemporary art. His work uses binary genres: traditional and contemporary, figurative and abstract, high and low art perspectives, mystical and pop. By exploring an idea through paint, O’Connell allows the concept to dictate the particular style of paintings, making his portfolio eclectic. His Walmart paintings have been collected widely and exhibited in New York, Shanghai, Toronto, and Boston, as well as reviewed in Art in America, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, The Colbert Report, Manifesto, and many other publications across the United States.