"The King of New York" is a large-scale mixed-media portrait celebrating Jean-Michel Basquiat — New York's greatest painter and the voice that defined an era of modern art. The painting layers acrylic paint over newspaper pages, a nod to the street-level, everyday world that shaped Basquiat’s art and life.

The newspaper substrate is not decorative — it's structural. Headlines, columns, and print fragments become part of the portrait itself, embedding the cultural moment directly into the image. Text and image become inseparable, just as Basquiat's art was inseparable from the city that made him.

Medium: Acrylic and newspaper on gallery-wrapped canvas | Size: 36" × 48" | One-of-a-kind original | Ready to hang | Ships from Dallas, TX | Certificate of authenticity included