Dash Snow

Dash Snow
Dash Snow
Birth name Dashiell A. Snow[1]
Born July 27, 1981(1981-07-27)[1]
New York
Died July 13, 2009(2009-07-13) (aged 27)
New York
Nationality American
Field Photography
Collage
Installation
Movement Hipster Art
Influenced by Nan Goldin
Larry Clark

Dashiel "Dash" Snow (July 27, 1981 - July 13, 2009)[1][2][3] was an American artist, based in New York.

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Life

Dashiel A. Snow was born in 1981, the son of Taya Thurman and Christopher Snow. He 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).[4] His maternal grandfather was Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman. Robert Thurman is actress Uma Thurman's father. His maternal grandmother was set and costume designer Christophe de Menil. He had a brother named Maxwell and a sister named Caroline. As a child he was rebellious, and at 13[1] was sent to the Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia, a boarding school specialising in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant disorder.[5]

At the age of 18, Snow married Corsican-born artist Agathe Snow.[4] They later split up and divorced. In July 2007 Dash's then-girlfriend, photo magazine editor Jade Berreau, gave birth to his daughter, whom they named Secret Midnight Magic Nico.

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."[6]

Career

Snow began taking photographs as a teenager, he said, as a record of places he might not remember the next day.[7]

In 2006 he was included in the Wall Street Journal article titled "The 23-Year Old Masters", which profiled 10 emerging US artists including Rosson Crow, Ryan Trecartin, Zane Lewis, Barney Kulok, Jordan Wolfson, Rashawn Griffin and Keegan McHargue.[8]

Like photographers Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and Ryan McGinley his photos depict scenes of a sex, drug taking, violence and art-world pretense with candor, documenting the decadent lifestyle of a group of young New York City artists and their social circle.

Some of Snow's later collage-based work was characterized by his practice of using his own semen as a material applied to or splashed across newspaper photographs of police officers and other authority figures.

Exhibitions and collections

Snow exhibited in galleries and museums such as The Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2006 Bienniale, with "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. His works are held in the collections of Charles Saatchi, Anita Zabludowicz, and Dakis Joannou,[9] The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Dash Snow - Telegraph". London: telegraph.co.uk. July 15, 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/5837056/Dash-Snow.html. Retrieved 2009-07-16. 
  2. ^ a b Roberta Smith, "Dash Snow, New York Artist, Dies at 27", New York Times, July 14, 2009.
  3. ^ a b Roberta Smith,"Dash Snow, East Village Artistic Rebel, Dies at 27", New York Times, July 15, 2009.
  4. ^ a b "Chasing Artist and Downtown Legend Dash Snow". New York Magazine. 2007-01-15. http://nymag.com/arts/art/profiles/26288/index1.html. Retrieved 2010-05-25. 
  5. ^ Sean O'Hagan, The last days of Dash Snow, The Observer, Sunday 20 September 2009.
  6. ^ 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. 
  7. ^ Micchelli, Thomas (2006-10-15). "Dash Snow". The Brooklyn Rail. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2006/10/artseen/dash-snow. Retrieved 2010-05-25. 
  8. ^ 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. 
  9. ^ Guardian
  10. ^ Brooklyn Museum

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