Considering Andy Warhol's and Keith Haring's artistry, the New York - based artist Brian Donnelly, or internationally known as Kaws, is a
prolific contemporary artist who has pushed the art of appropriation significant steps forward embracing pop
culture with a wide range of influential artistic projects from toys, to clothings,
graffiti, paintings, sneakers and videos.
He curated PUMP ME UP: D.C. subculture of the 1980s at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 2013 and produced the companion documentary narrated by Henry Rollins, The Legend of COOL «DISCO» DAN, an educational film about D.C.
culture and their most
prolific graffiti artist.