Dash Snow
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| Dash Snow | |
| Birth name | Dashiell A. Snow[1] |
| Born | July 27, 1981[1] New York |
| Died | July 13, 2009 (aged 27) New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Photography Collage Installation |
| Influenced by | Nan Goldin Larry Clark |
Dash Snow (July 27, 1981 - July 13, 2009)[1][2][3] was an American artist.
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[edit] Career
Snow ran away from home and began living on the streets at 13 or 14, and began taking photographs, he said, as a record of places he might not remember the next day.[4]
He was included in the 2006 Wall Street Journal article titled "The 23-Year Old Masters", which selected ten top emerging US artists including Rosson Crow, Ryan Trecartin, Zane Lewis, Barney Kulok, Jordan Wolfson, Rashawn Griffin and Keegan McHargue.[5]
The artist's photographic work is in a thematically similar mode to photographers Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, Ryan McGinley and Richard Billingham, often depicting scenes of a candid or illicit nature. Instances of sex, drug taking, violence and art-world pretentiousness are documented with disarming frankness and honesty, offering insight into the decadent lifestyle associated with young New York City artists and their social circles.
Some of Snow's recent collage-based work was characterized by the controversial practice of using his own semen as a material applied to or splashed across newspaper photographs of police officers and other authority figures. His works have been acquired by influential collectors such as Charles Saatchi, Anita Zabludowicz, Dakis Joannou, [6], The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum [7].
He also wrote graffiti as part of the Irak Crew using the name "Sacer". [8][9]
In 2007 he was the centerpiece for the Barr music video "The B Side Is Silent" [10]
Snow exhibited in galleries and museums such as The Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2006 Biennial, "God spoiled a perfect asshole when he put teeth in yer mouth", Peres Projects, Contemporary Fine Arts, Deitch Projects, Saatchi Gallery[11], "Babylon"[12] at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and Bergen Kunsthall in Norway. He is represented by Peres Projects in Berlin and Los Angeles, and Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin.
[edit] Family
A son of Taya Thurman and her former husband, Christopher Snow, the artist was also a great-grandson of the founders of the Menil Collection in Houston, Dominique de Menil and John de Menil, French aristocrats who were heirs to fortunes based in textiles and oil-drilling equipment (see Schlumberger).[11] His maternal grandfather was Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, his maternal grandmother was set and costume designer Christophe de Menil, and an aunt was actress Uma Thurman. He had brothers, Maxwell,and sister Caroline.
At the age of 18, Snow married Corsican-born artist Agathe Snow. They later split up, but never legally divorced. In July 2007 Dash's then-girlfriend, travel magazine editor Jade Berreau, gave birth to his daughter, whom they named Secret Magic Nico. Snow lived alone in an apartment on the Bowery up until his death.
[edit] Death
Snow died on the evening of July 13, 2009 at Lafayette House, a hotel in lower Manhattan.[2] His grandmother Christophe de Menil was quoted as saying that he died of a drug overdose.[3] A New York Times article commented that Snow "met a junkie’s end but did so in a $325-a-night hotel room with an antique marble hearth."[12]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Dash Snow - Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/5837056/Dash-Snow.html. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ a b Roberta Smith, "Dash Snow, New York Artist, Dies at 27", New York Times, July 14, 2009.
- ^ a b Roberta Smith,"Dash Snow, East Village Artistic Rebel, Dies at 27", New York Times, July 15, 2009.
- ^ http://www.brooklynrail.org/2006/10/artseen/dash-snow
- ^ Crow, Kelly (2006-04-17). "The 23-Year Old Masters". Wall Street Journal. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06107/682265-42.stm. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
- ^ Guardian
- ^ Brooklyn Museum
- ^ Sherman, Will (2009-07-14). "Dash Snow’s Creative Universe". Animal. http://animalnewyork.com/2009/07/dash-snows-creative-universe. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ^ RIP Dash Snow at TheWhole9 alias Sacer
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- ^ Nymag
- ^ Alan Feuer and Allen Salkin (July 24, 2009). "Terrible End for an Enfant Terrible". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/nyregion/26dash.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
