Brian Gonnella is an artist/writer/organizer living in Pittsburgh PA. After a short stint as a vandal, followed by going to college and reading Marcuse (one time), the artist believes art's primary social responsibility is to examine and critique the historical political economy it emerged from. Inspired by conceptual artists like Mark Lombardi and the Sots Art movement, his paintings attempt to create hyper-visualizations of American consumerism by utilizing an interconnected iconography of reappropriated pop culture imagery, aiming to split the difference between cool commercial aesthetics and didactic function. His mural work (outside of corporate client work) is primarily focused on the response to the critiques raised in his paintings; celebrating the solidarity and community that exists between People outside of the material community of capital, either through both mystification of common liminal space or celebrating