New Work from a Juxtapoz favorite, Brian Donnelly, who usually shows up in our Erotica dept. with his portraits of beastly nudes. Brian is a visual artist and illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario whose new work is tending towards running pigments and illness, while maintaining his signature portraiture style.  

Brian Donnelly's work acts to settle his own selfish whims, while exploring art and art culture through representational painting. Inspired by books like "The island of Dr. Moreau" and "Frankenstein", his aim is not to recreate works based on fiction, but to create his own vision of cruelty. He models himself after the hap-hazard doctors of fiction, substituting his scientific practice for his artistic practice, and in doing so, he has become a fierce and unforgiving...