Born to create. Inspired to elevate. Daniel Gunn is an American artist, based in Dallas Texas, whose portrait paintings celebrate icons of history and pop culture. Whether rendered in vibrant acrylics or an all-black palette on collaged newsprint, each of his portraits presents its subject adorned with a crown-a now-iconic visual motif that pays tribute to its originator, Jean-Michel Basquiat, himself a subject of Gunn's work. In fashioning these iconic Black figures as kings, Gunn joins a growing tradition that rejects the exclusionary canon of Western portraiture.