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Agathe Snow

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Agathe Snow (French pronunciation: [aɡatə snɔ:]; née Aparru)[1] (born 1976) is an artist based in Long Island, New York. Before moving to Long Island in 2008, she lived and worked in New York City.[2]

Biography

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Snow was born in Corsica and moved to New York at age 11.[3][4] As a professional artist, she is entirely self-taught.[2] She works in a variety of media and has collaborated with artists including Alex Arcadia, Rita Ackermann, Michael Portnoy and Emily Sunblad.[5] One of her best known endeavours was No Need To Worry, The Apocalypse Has Already Happened… at James Fuentes Gallery in 2007, in which Snow took the starting point of a recently flooded Manhattan[6] as a conceit on which to base a five-week performance and gallery-wide installation, including a sculpture of the belly of a beached whale.[5]

Snow married artist Dash Snow when he was 18 and she was 23 in 2000.[7] Before Dash Snow died on July 13, 2009, according to his obituary in The New York Times, their marriage had ended in divorce.[1]

In 2005, she staged a 24-hour dance party two blocks away from Ground Zero that brought together a generation-defining group of artists from New York's downtown creative scene including Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, Lizzi Bougatsos and Dan Colen, among many others.[8][9] "I invited all of my friends," Snow told Interview Magazine in 2015. "It was a sense of New York City after 9/11—we don't know what's going to happen, we're all downtown in Manhattan, we might as well have fun."[8] In 2015, on the tenth anniversary of the original event, Snow held a 24-hour dance party at the Guggenheim titled Stamina that featured never-before-seen video footage from the 2005 party that she had edited into a 24-hour-long video, which premiered in real-time over the duration of Stamina.[10]

Snow's entry to the 2008 Whitney Biennial, held from March 9 to March 16 at the Park Avenue Armory annex of the biennial, was "Stamina: Gloria Et Patria", a week-long dance-a-thon.[11]

In 2019 Snow was working with Marianne Vitale on projects including "Double Vision" including paintings and drawings, some made with food items like mustard and coffee grounds.[12][13]

Selected exhibitions

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2015

Continuum [solo exhibition], Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York[14]

Stamina [color video installation; with sound, 24hrs], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York[10]

2012

Tout Dit (2D), OHWOW, Los Angeles, California (solo exhibition)[15]

I like it here. Don't you?, Maccarone, New York, New York (solo exhibition)[16]

References

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  1. ^ a b Roberta Smith,"Dash Snow, East Village Artistic Rebel, Dies at 27", The New York Times, July 15, 2009.
  2. ^ a b Small, Rachel (November 18, 2015). "Agathe Snow's Evolution". Interview Magazine. Archived from the original on November 20, 2015.
  3. ^ "Collection online: Agathe Snow". Solomon F. Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
  4. ^ "Agathe Snow on How 9/11 Shaped Her Career, and Why She Left Downtown New York Behind". Artspace. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
  5. ^ a b Mary Rinebold, After the Deluge, ArtNet.com
  6. ^ "Agathe Snow - No Need To Worry, the Apocalypse Has Already Happened... when it couldn't get any worse, it just got a little better" (PDF). James Fuentes. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 July 2011.
  7. ^ Levy, Ariel (4 January 2007). "Chasing Dash Snow". New York Magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  8. ^ a b Small, Rachel (August 18, 2015). "Come Together". Interview Magazine. Archived from the original on August 21, 2015.
  9. ^ Newell-Hanson, Alice (2015-07-31). "agathe snow's legendary 24-hour dance party returns". i-D. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  10. ^ a b "Stamina". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  11. ^ Berwick, Carly (27 February 2008). "The Facebook Biennial". New York Magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  12. ^ McMahon, Katherine (31 July 2019). "Habitat: The Art of the Dinner Party, With New York Art Types Who Use Food to Foster Community". ARTnews. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  13. ^ "Double Vision: Agathe Snow / Marianne Vitale". Elaine de Kooning House. August 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  14. ^ "Agathe Snow". www.thejournalinc.com. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
  15. ^ Dambrot, Shana Nys (January 2013). "January 2013: Agathe Snow @ OHWOW". White Hot Magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  16. ^ Soto, Paul (19 November 2012). "Agathe Snow's Moral Surfaces". Art in America. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
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