With their instantly recognisable Xs for eyes, these characters play out in Donnelly’s graffiti drawings, paintings, smaller collectible toys, colossal sculptures and even furniture. In 2018, he worked with São Paulo-based design duo Campana Brothers to design a line of armchairs and sofas overlaid with KAWS’s soft toys that was unveiled at DesignMiami art fair and promptly snapped up by the likes of model Kylie Jenner and rapper Travis Scott.
“For me, art has always been about communication,” says Brian Donnelly, whom you’ll more likely know by his graffiti tag KAWS. His story as an artist begins not in the studio, but on the street where he could speak directly to passersby. In the mid-1990s, Donnelly’s cartoon-like figures emerged across New York where he studied at the School of Visual Arts, encircling Christy Turlington in Calvin Klein adverts and forming the basis of the recurring characters in his work that include CHUM (an appropriation of the Michelin Man), COMPANION (a figure who sometimes wears Mickey Mouse shorts and gloves) and the Kimpsons (a parody of The Simpsons).
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