{"id":158849,"date":"2023-10-31T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T12:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/?p=158849"},"modified":"2023-10-31T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T12:06:51","slug":"coverage-kaws-family-art-gallery-of-ontario-toronto-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/2023\/10\/coverage-kaws-family-art-gallery-of-ontario-toronto-canada.html","title":{"rendered":"Coverage: KAWS “Family” @ Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, better known as KAWS<\/a>, has forged his own distinct path through the art world for the past 30 years. An interplay of fine art, popular culture, street art, advertising, branding, graphic design, and fashion, KAWS\u2019s multidisciplinary practice defies simple categorization. In his Canadian museum debut, KAWS invites us to consider the concept of family. Family can be something we are born into, something we choose, or something we create. The KAWS family of figures\u2014with features he appropriates from the pop-culture zeitgeist\u2014recur throughout his paintings, drawings, small-scale figurines, and larger-than-life\u2013size sculptures. Though not quite human in form, these figures express a range of human emotions and pathos in their gestures and poses\u2014from companionship to loneliness, from melancholia to unbridled joy. The cast of characters that populate the KAWS universe speaks to the complex reality of life in our contemporary world.<\/p>