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Toronto-based artist Brian Donnelly uses turpentine and hand sanitizer to melt the faces of his portraits into rainbow rivers. Inspired by an interest in human identity and vulnerability, Donnelly pai

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Brian Donnelly is an artist who in his solvent paintings allows painstakingly rendered portraits to be corrupted by exposure to fairly common household items such as turpentine, hand sanitizer, and alcohol. The reaction on canvas is a return to base pigment, collapsing the structure of the image. ‘As the image distorts, I watch a slow […]

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Rainbow waterfalls spill from the faces of Brian Donnelly's men and women. The Toronto-based painter describes himself as a portrait painter, yet he distorts and erodes his subjects to sometimes unrecognizable ends. Donnelly's paints from real life, selecting his subjects based on interesting features such as piercing eyes or characteristic facial hair. He then paints them on canvas before using a combination of turpentine and hand sanitizer to make the colors run.

Brian Donnelly

Brian Donnelly, now known as @kaws, studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Before he achieved success as an artist, he worked as a background painter on animated series such as Disney’s 101 Dalmations, and cult shows Daria and Doug.