 Dustin
Harris is a painter, sculptor, DJ, and former musician who grew up in the urban
peaceful neighborhoods of southwest Evanston IL. Through the guidance of his
dancer/educator mother Diana and teacher father Garth, his main interests as
a child were in art, performance, and music. In his early teens he became interested
in graffiti, breakdancing, and the art of djing. He attended Columbia College
Chicago and graduated with a BA and decided to pursue his music as a trombonist/mc
with national touring bands Skapone and Boogie Shoes. After four years on the
road, up to 200 shows a year, and playing with various bands including Fishbone,
Outkast, Kid Rock, The Blue Meanies, Digital Underground, and A Flock of Seagulls,
Dustin changed his focus back to art and started djing on a full time basis.
He has studied and worked under Chicago sculptors John Adduci, Tom Scarf, Ted
Garner, Jerry Peart, Ed McCullough, Barry Tinsley, Michelle Goldstrom, and has
exhibited work in many group shows as well. He is co-founder of the local art
collective Boombox with his fiance and main collaborator Lea Pinsky, with whom
he organizes three shows a year. He continues to challenge himself in using realism
with abstract environments in his art work and dj soundscapes. He djs three times
a week in and around Chicago. He likes to travel to warm places and loves to
surf. See www.dustinharris.biz
for more art.
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