Acrylic on Illustration Board
40.5" x 28.5"
2001
Painted in 2001, The DJ captures the moment hip-hop's most iconic figure became fine art. The turntablist frozen mid-scratch, elongated hands and bent posture radiating pure kinetic energy. It remains one of the first classically rendered paintings to treat DJing itself as a worthy subject, and its image has since become inseparable from hip-hop culture worldwide.