Exclusive | Art Talk & Reception: KAWS
KAWS, FAMILY (2021) Bronze, paint, (219.1 x 207 x 95.6 cm) © KAWS
Exclusive | Art Talk & Reception: KAWS
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Making his Canadian museum debut, Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly (1974), better known as KAWS, bridges the worlds of art, popular culture and commerce with sophisticated humour and insightful appropriation. Renowned for his larger-than-life sculptures of cartoon-inspired characters and exuberant hard-edge paintings that playfully emphasize line and colour, much like 1960s Pop artists, he blurs the boundaries between populist and elite art, bringing mass media imagery into traditional art spaces.
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